Field notes

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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