Blocking Bots & Moving from Redis to SQLite with Mike Buckbee

[@MichaelBuckbee]

It was so great appearing on the show - I really appreciate you having me on.

[@SoftwareHuddle]

Thanks, Mike! Great having you on the show!

[@thegrumpydeveloper]

How do you do distributed SQLite for counts? How long is eventually consistent when you have a botnet attack across multiple load balanced servers?

[@MichaelBuckbee]

So there's rate limiting for things like API access - which has a need for strict limits, and then there's rate limiting at the level of stopping a bot attack, which is part of a response, and it's easy enough to do the math of a number of client nodes and a number of requests. Put another way, you can't _just_ rate limit to stop an attack because attackers use thousands of IPs.