Jakub Drobník

Full-stack developer from the early days at Apify, involved in almost all Apify platform projects since then. Currently switching between work and travelling around the globe on a biweekly basis.

6 posts

Will Kuba go to Cuba? A travel log of a globetrotter (currently) and an honorary first Apifier (always)

Jakub Drobník

Many roads can lead to a career at Apify. Think you don’t have the right background or experience? Think again.

9 min read Feb 16, 2022

Apify Updates

Updates to key-value store API

Jakub Drobník

We removed 9MB file size limit for uploads, updated how files are compressed, and deprecated Direct Upload endpoint.

2 min read Mar 9, 2021

Tutorial

How to debug an infinite loop in Node.js production code

Jakub Drobník

Print the stack trace of an infinite loop in a Node.js application running in a Docker container using GNU debugger (GDB) and Kubernetes.

5 min read Aug 27, 2020

Web Scraping

Realitní pes upozorní na nové příležitosti ke koupi či pronájmu nemovitostí

Jakub Drobník

Nový projekt nad daty, které sbírá Apify, Vám pomůže včas odhalit vysněnou nemovitost a poradí, jestli je to dobrá investice.

2 min read May 4, 2020

Apify Updates

The new version of Apify integration for Zapier is out!

Jakub Drobník

The new Apify app for Zapier now lets you extend your workflows with arbitrary web scraping, data processing or web automation tasks. The new Apify app for Zapier now lets you extend your workflows with arbitrary web scraping, data processing or web automation tasks.

4 min read Jun 26, 2019

Tutorial

Get data from Google Places not provided by official API

Jakub Drobník

Use our Google Places crawler to scrape data from Google Maps Our Google Places crawler lets you get lots more information from Google Maps than the official API

3 min read Jan 17, 2019