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Right, so there's currently a DDoS of our site specifically happening. Part of me is mildly annoyed, part of me is proud that we're worth DDoS-ing now. Since it's only slowing us down a bit and not actually shutting us down, I'm half tempted to just let them run their botnet time out. I suppose we should tweak the firewall a bit though. Sigh, I hate working on weekends.
Update: Okay, that appears to have mitigated it; the site's functional at a reasonable rate of responsiveness.
Update2: Attack's over for now. You may go about your business.
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(Score: 2) by NCommander on Monday October 31 2016, @04:48AM
Honestly, you can get both without having a ton of crap as your codebase. Build an interface to do what you want, then slide a caching layer below it. If you've done it right, you get the best of both worlds. While not completely invisible, if you're using caching sanely, and know exactly how it operates, you can drastically reduce cache misses while rarely having to explicately code around the problem of dirty reads (MySQL cluster handles this for us). Rehash's core basically is proof; it's not the most brilliant pile of Perl ever written, but CmdrTaco actually knew what he was doing from a software development perspective. Most of the garbage we stripped out were later additions that were basically tacked on.
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