June 07, 2017 12:47PM
How we built rate limiting capable of scaling to millions of domains
Attacks Rate Limiting Optimization Network Security ReliabilityBack in April we announced Rate Limiting of requests for every Cloudflare customer. Being able to rate limit at the edge of the network has many advantages: it’s easier for customers to set up and operate, their origin servers are not bothered by excessive traffic or layer 7 attacks....