ashutoshstark

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   by ashutoshstark 7mo ago

   One thing I’ve noticed with scraper traffic is that a lot of the basic defenses rely on external infrastructure like Redis or a WAF layer. In a recent project, I experimented with keeping the rate limiter entirely in-memory using Concurrent
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   by ashutoshstark 7mo ago

   Hi HN, I built VelocityGate because the recent surge in aggressive AI scrapers (GPTBot, Claude, Meta) is causing massive cloud bill spikes, especially for serverless/edge setups where you pay per invocation. Most WAFs (like DataDome or
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   by ashutoshstark 7mo ago

   True 100 % A lot of strong engineers move into EM roles expecting deeper technical impact, but end up spending most of their time on coordination, hiring, performance reviews, and cross-team alignment. That’s valuable work — just very diffe
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   Show HN: VelocityGate – A lock-free app-layer firewall to stop AI scrapers(github.com)

   1 points by ashutoshstark 7mo ago|1 comments