crbaker

us-east-1 the worst region for availability

Totally biased opinion, but I think you should check out https://github.com/mokies/ratelimitj if you are Java based.

Afterpay (http://www.afterpay.com) | Backend Java | Decisioning Rules/ML | Melbourne, Australia | ONSITE

We are a deferred payment service undergoing significant growth. I'm looking for Australian based engineers to assist with global expansion plans.

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Great article that I expect will assist many teams that are facing scaling issues.

I thought it appropriate to plug my java based rate limiting library that implements the token bucket algorithm as mentioned in the article

https://github.com/mokies/ratelimitj

Keep is Google's Moonshot for Notes

It will take these organisation years and lots of money to rebuild their reputations when their security malpractices catch up with them.

I understand that HTTP/2.0 needs to address both scalability and security, but the proposed "trusted" proxies smells really bad. Knowing what we know today, in that the current level of security offered by HTTP/1.1 is barely adequate to protect web citizens from real and present threats, shouldn't we be radically rethinking HTTP security.