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3 postsJuly 2026
Rate Limiting at Scale: Choosing the Right Throttling Algorithm
Why in-memory rate limiting silently breaks under horizontal scaling, and how token bucket, sliding window and fixed window algorithms trade off in production.
rate-limitingredisdistributed-systemsbackendHalf My Traffic Was Bots: A 4-Day Layered Defense Stack
A developer discovered headless bots executing JS made up half his traffic, then built a 4-day, five-layer defense using robots.txt, ISR, Redis, and Vercel BotID.
bot-detectionweb-securitynextjsvercelHow GitHub's forgotten security rules ended up blocking real users
GitHub reveals how temporary incident-response rules left in place kept quietly blocking legitimate users, highlighting the need for lifecycle management and observability in defense systems.
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