The Solarflare blog.
Notes from the team behind Solarflare — proxy network observations, fraud and bot detection patterns, IP intelligence guidance, and product changelogs. First posts land alongside the v1 API release.
- Field notesComing soon
What we see in residential proxy traffic, week by week
A short tour of what observed proxy behaviour actually looks like — residential, mobile, and datacenter networks — and how recency changes which signals matter.
Coming soon - IntegrationComing soon
Adding Solarflare to an existing fraud stack
How to drop the API into a typical fraud workflow alongside MaxMind, IPinfo, and an internal rules engine — without rip-and-replace.
Coming soon - MethodologyComing soon
Confidence scoring, demystified
What low / medium / high actually mean, how recency and behavioural pattern matching feed the score, and how to pick thresholds for your risk surface.
Coming soon - Bot detectionComing soon
Why fresh signals beat static IP lists
Proxy infrastructure moves fast. We compare observation-based signals against static IP databases and show where each one wins.
Coming soon - Ad-techComing soon
Detecting proxy-driven click fraud in real campaigns
A walkthrough of using bulk IP analysis on a click log, what the network-type distribution tells you, and how to surface fraud-driven impressions.
Coming soon - PrivacyComing soon
How we treat sample IP data
What we keep, what we throw away, and how we make sure evaluation data never leaks into anything else we operate. Plain-language walkthrough.
Coming soon
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