Full Stack Developer
hardrate-limiting-bot-protection
How do you protect a full stack app from bots and abusive traffic?
Answer
Protection is layered.
**Common controls:**
- Rate limiting per IP/user
- CAPTCHA for suspicious flows
- WAF rules and bot detection
- Abuse monitoring (signup/login anomalies)
- Caching and CDN shielding
Also design endpoints to be cheap (avoid heavy DB work) and make writes idempotent to handle retries safely.
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