Internet Stack Review

Persistent connections need different defenses than stateless HTTP at three attack layers.

Leaked passwords fuel millions of daily attacks that evade MFA and slow breach detection by months.

Distributed anycast turns massive DDoS floods into manageable slices across hundreds of locations.

API bots exploit business logic directly while browser bots must fake user behavior.

Structured tuning prevents the security decay that costs organizations millions.

Sophisticated attacks mimic legitimate traffic, forcing defenses to work faster than attacks arrive.

Wasm modules start in milliseconds and use a tenth the memory of containers.

Moving personalization logic to the edge eliminates the latency that kills user experience.

Edge providers need billing built for workloads that move and spike, not flat fees.

Latency and compliance drive adoption of truly distributed databases over hand-managed regions.

Different language choices and platform models create vastly different cold start costs to fix.