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Katharine Jarmul
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Katharine Jarmul is a data scientist and Pythonista based in Berlin, Germany. She runs a data science consulting company, Kjamistan, that provides services such as data extraction, acquisition, and modelling for small and large companies. She has been writing Python since 2008 and scraping the web with Python since 2010, and has worked at both small and large start-ups who use web scraping for data analysis and machine learning. When she's not scraping the web, you can follow her thoughts and activities via Twitter (@kjam)
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In this chapter, we learned that caching downloaded web pages will save time and minimize bandwidth when recrawling a website. However, caching pages takes up disk space, some of which can be alleviated through compression. Additionally, building on top of an existing storage system, such as Redis, can be useful to avoid speed, memory, and filesystem limitations.

In the next chapter, we will add further functionalities to our crawler so we can download web pages concurrently and crawl the web even faster.

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Katharine Jarmul

Katharine Jarmul is a data scientist and Pythonista based in Berlin, Germany. She runs a data science consulting company, Kjamistan, that provides services such as data extraction, acquisition, and modelling for small and large companies. She has been writing Python since 2008 and scraping the web with Python since 2010, and has worked at both small and large start-ups who use web scraping for data analysis and machine learning. When she's not scraping the web, you can follow her thoughts and activities via Twitter (@kjam)
Read more about Katharine Jarmul