We timed HTTP-only scraping against a headless browser on the same page. It wasn't close.

Every one of our Actors is HTTP-only — no Puppeteer, no Playwright, no headless Chromium in production. We say this is faster and cheaper. This post is the measurement, not the assertion. The setup Same target, two approaches, same box (1 vCPU / 2 GB RAM, the machine this whole business runs on): HTTP-only: GET... Weiterlesen