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This talk covers real-world lessons from running 101 spiders in production: Concern-based  modular architecture, four classic failure patterns (anti-scraping, virtual scrolling, dynamic PDF generation, SPA migration), monitoring with Bugsnag, and using AI to decide whether to fix or delete a broken spider.</description>
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      <content:encoded>Maintaining 100+ Ruby scrapers for financial websites — the hardest part isn't writing the  spider, it's knowing which one broke today.                                                     
   
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