Topic

Botnet flood mitigation

Keeping internet-facing services available when attackers open large numbers of connections or drip traffic slowly, covering network filtering, rate limiting, connection caps and server-side resource handling.

Current clusters

build1 publisher

Thread-per-connection turns a slow-drip flood into a kernel scheduling bill

A dev.to guide argues that two services under an identical connection flood diverge on CPU because one blocks a thread per connection while the other multiplexes thousands of them through epoll on a small fixed thread pool.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence30
Adoption: Insufficient
Hype gap+30
Incentives: Insufficient
Confidence45