Marek Trunkát

CTO and one of the earliest Apifiers. Writing about challenges our development team faces when building and scaling the Apify platform, which automates millions of tasks every month.

13 posts

Actor build life cycle is being changed

Marek Trunkát

On June 5, we start removing actor builds that are untagged and have not been used for 180 days, and on August 5 we start removing untagged actor builds not used for 90 days.

2 min read May 5, 2022

Engineering

How we monitor infrastructure that processes 1 petabyte of data every month

Marek Trunkát

What happens at Apify when AWS or DockerHub go down? Find out about our monitoring and alerting architecture. How we use New Relic, LogDNA, Sentry, and PagerDuty to keep our systems up and running.

5 min read Feb 21, 2022

Tutorial

How to turn any website into an RSS feed

Marek Trunkát

What if a website you want to integrate does not provide an RSS feed? In this article, we’ll show you how to build a simple crawler and publish its content in an RSS feed.

4 min read Jan 13, 2022

Engineering

Tuning MongoDB performance for production systems

Marek Trunkát

Techniques and MongoDB Cloud features we used to debug performance issues and expose sub-optimal queries.

6 min read Oct 1, 2021

Apify Updates

July 2020 update

Marek Trunkát

What’s new at Apify? Read on to find out. For the latest news, follow us on Twitter.

2 min read Aug 11, 2020

Apify Updates

May 2020 update

Marek Trunkát

What’s new at Apify? Read on to find out. And for the latest news, follow us on Twitter.

3 min read Jun 16, 2020

Apify Updates

April 2020 update

Marek Trunkát

Read on to find out what’s new at Apify. Want to keep updated with the latest news? Just follow us on Twitter.

2 min read Jun 16, 2020

Web Scraping

January 2020 update

Marek Trunkát

Welcome to the second issue of our series that will keep you up to date with the newest features on the Apify platform.

2 min read Feb 24, 2020

Apify Updates

December 2019 update

Marek Trunkát

Welcome to the first issue of our new series that will keep you up to date with the newest features on the Apify platform.

2 min read Dec 11, 2019

Apify Updates

Launching access rights: Share your actors, tasks, and storages with other users

Marek Trunkát

TLDR: We’re launching access rights, which allow you to provide other users with controlled access to your actors, tasks, and storages…

1 min read Dec 11, 2019

Apify Updates

Apify Crawler product to be replaced by an Apify actor

Marek Trunkát

On September 30, 2019, we’ll be retiring the legacy Apify Crawler product together with Apify API version 1. Please migrate your crawlers to tasks of the new apify/legacy-phantomjs-crawler actor, which provides the same functionality, configuration options and results as Apify Crawler.

9 min read Jun 3, 2019

Apify Updates

Live view of running actors on public hostname

Marek Trunkát

Since the launch of Apify actors last autumn, Apify is no longer just a tool to extract data from websites. It has become a full-featured serverless computing platform that enables people to automate workflows on the web, run data processing pipelines or integrate with third-party systems.

2 min read Aug 7, 2018