Inside Snowpad's infrastructure — scaling work, reliability fixes, carrier benchmarks, and engineering decisions from the people running the network.
EngineeringA 500-concurrent-stream video client exposed a software bottleneck we never saw coming. CPU and memory were idle. The transport layer was choking. Here's what we found, what we fixed, and how a single architectural change unlocked a 3x concurrency multiplier per node.
EngineeringWe are migrating the Snowpad dashboard off Neon's serverless Postgres and onto a self-hosted TimescaleDB instance on the same Mumbai VPS our gateway already runs on. This post explains why, what changes, and what we lose and gain. Paid checkout is temporarily unavailable while the cutover finishes — email deepesh@snowpad.io for urgent pricing.
ComparisonWe pushed Jio and Airtel sticky proxies to breaking point with 50+ concurrent connections simulating Instagram-style data scraping. The results reveal which carrier handles real-world scraping workloads better — and where each one fails.
ComparisonWe ran 500,000 requests through Jio and Airtel networks to find which carrier performs better for scraping. The results surprised us.