Hasnain says:

Great read on diagnosing a ddos attack and making code changes quickly to make a server robust against them. Covers profiling, observability, caching, and various Rust frameworks.

“Long story short: a couple of my articles got really popular on a bunch of sites, and someone, somewhere, went "well, let's see how much traffic that smart-ass can handle", and suddenly I was on the receiving end of a couple DDoS attacks.

It really doesn't matter what the articles were about — the attack is certainly not representative of how folks on either side of any number of debates generally behave.

My assumption is that it's a small group (maybe a Discord?) with a botnet, who wanted to have fun.

And, friends: fun was had.”

Posted on 2022-05-02T04:52:04+0000