I Built a System That Catches Hackers in Real Time

I Built a System That Catches Hackers in Real Time ​The Problem ​It was a regular Tuesday morning at cloud.ng, a rapidly growing cloud storage company powered by Nextcloud. Thousands of users were uploading files, sharing documents, and going about their day. ​Then the alerts started firing. ​Someone was hammering the server with thousands of requests per second. Not a real user. An attacker. A bot. Something trying to take the platform down. This is called a DDoS attack (Distributed Denial of S