Building a Real‑Time Anomaly Detection Engine for Web Traffic

Introduction Modern web applications live on the open internet, which means they’re constantly exposed to unpredictable traffic — from normal users, automated bots, and sometimes attackers. One of the most common threats is a DDoS attack, where a flood of requests overwhelms your server and makes your application unusable. In this project, I built a real‑time anomaly detection engine that monitors incoming HTTP traffic, learns what “normal” looks like, and automatically reacts when something sus