How I Built a Real-Time Anomaly Detection Engine for a Cloud Storage Platform

Introduction Imagine you're running a cloud storage platform — thousands of users uploading files, downloading documents, sharing links — all day, every day. Now imagine a hacker decides to hammer your server with thousands of fake requests per second. Without protection, your server slows to a crawl, real users get locked out, and your business takes a hit. That's exactly the problem I was asked to solve. My task: build a tool that watches all incoming web traffic in real time, learns what "nor