Marcus Chen
Product & Network Architect
Marcus Chen is a Product & Network Architect at Nstdata with deep expertise in proxy infrastructure, network engineering, and web data acquisition. He specializes in designing scalable residential, ISP, mobile, and datacenter proxy solutions that enable reliable access to global web resources. His articles focus on proxy technologies, network optimization, cybersecurity, and large-scale scraping architecture.
All Articles
Scrape Data for LLM Training: A Practical Guide
Learn how to collect web data for LLM training with provenance, deduplication, quality gates, privacy controls, and a versioned release process.
Residential Proxy Speed & Success Comparison 2026
Compare public residential proxy performance claims, understand why speed and success are target-dependent, and build a fair buyer-run test.
Crawl API Success Rate Benchmark (2026 Test)
Review the clearest public 2026 crawl API benchmark, separate vendor claims from measured evidence, and learn how to run a fair test on your own URLs.
Oxylabs vs Nstdata: Which Proxy Provider Wins?
Oxylabs is built for enterprise-scale public web data, while Nstdata offers a more focused proxy, Crawl, and Proxy Manager path. The decision turns on output, support, commitment, and measured cost per accepted result.
Crawl an Entire Website With a Single API Request
Submit one bounded Nstdata site-crawl job, control depth and URL scope, poll status, and retrieve every paginated result. The guide also covers crawl traps, coverage checks, and responsible-use controls.
Give Your AI Agent Live Web Data (with MCP)
Build a current MCP 2.x web-reading tool backed by Nstdata Crawl and connect it to Cursor or Claude Desktop. The guide includes a verified tool-discovery handshake and production safety controls.
How to Build a RAG Knowledge Base From Any Website 2026
Build a practical website-to-RAG pipeline from crawling and clean Markdown through chunking, embeddings, storage, retrieval, citations, and evaluation. The tutorial includes a runnable local retrieval baseline.
Nstdata vs Firecrawl: A Cheaper, Pay-as-you-go Alternative (2026)
Nstdata Crawl offers true pay-as-you-go usage for bounded page and site crawling, while Firecrawl centers paid use on recurring credits. Compare failure billing, proxy costs, outputs, and workload fit.
Best Chunking Strategies for RAG in 2026: A Practical Selection Guide
RAG chunking should be chosen by corpus structure and query behavior, not a copied token size. This guide ranks five strategies and explains how to prove the choice with retrieval and answer tests.
