How I Built an Anomaly Detection Engine for DDoS Protection

What This Project Does and Why It Matters Imagine you run a website. Normally 10 people visit per minute. Suddenly 500 people flood in at once; that could be a DDoS attack trying to crash your site. This project is like a security guard that watches your traffic, learns what "normal" looks like, and automatically blocks attackers. I built this for a Nextcloud server (like Google Drive but self-hosted) using Go programming language. How the Sliding Window Works Think of a sliding window like a mo