Ellis Morning

Editor

Apr 2016

Tough Cookies

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Raw cookie dough in cookie clumps

Back in 2007, Dimitry worked on a website that received millions of unique visitors.


The Pagemaster

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Amanda supported and maintained a website through which clients managed their own data. Occasionally, she’d read through access logs in search of unwanted scrapers, rogue bots, and hack attempts.

Her diligence paid off when she caught on to a particular IP that was making a huge amount of requests throughout the day. Page after page of results were being requested less than a second after another, as with a typical scraper bot: