Design Improvements of a Web Crawler

Identify the web crawler's design shortcomings and challenges, and make improvements accordingly.

Introduction

This lesson gives us a detailed rundown of the improvements that are required to enhance the functionality, performance, and security of our web crawler design. We have divided this lesson into two sections:

  1. Functionality and performance enhancement design improvements—extensibility and multi-worker architecture.

  2. Security-enhancement design improvements—crawler traps.

Let’s dive into these sections.

Design improvements

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