Browser Tools for AI Agents Part 3: Managed Infrastructure and When DIY Stops Making Sense (opens in new tab)

There's a moment in every engineer's life where they're two weeks into building something, surrounded by Docker configs and cron jobs and a spreadsheet tracking proxy rotation, and they think: "Someone must sell this as a service." And someone does. Several someones, actually. The question is whether paying them makes you clever or lazy. I've been on both sides of that line. Ran my own headless Chrome fleet on Hetzner for a couple of months, complete with a homegrown retry queue and a Grafana...