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A single thirty-day window made the scanning look like one steady thing. Three months shows the opposite: overlapping campaigns that surge and vanish, an edge that loses its lead and then takes it back, and a curated filter already drifting out of date.
Read moreThis site's robots.txt politely asks crawlers to avoid six paths. None of the six exist. Anyone who asks for one anyway has just introduced themselves.
Read moreOne CloudFront edge location dominated the probe traffic by a factor of six. Pulling that thread led to Azure Canada Central and a particular kind of internet scavenger.
Read moreA static site with no login pages, no forms, and no commercial value still attracts more than twenty thousand unsolicited requests a month. This is what that traffic contains.
Read moreWhy a CloudFront Function was the right choice for canonical host redirects and URL rewriting, and what would change that decision.
Read moreA privacy-preserving analytics pipeline on AWS, built to cost almost nothing.
Read moreS3 returns 403 for missing objects when the caller lacks ListBucket permission. Here's why, and how to fix it for static sites on CloudFront.
Read moreImplementing a tiered caching strategy that balances high-performance delivery for assets with immediate consistency for content updates.
Read moreA DNS debugging story involving IPv6, Terraform, and a lying resolver.
Read moreWhy using cloud primitives directly provides a better foundation for ownership and security than 'magic' hosting platforms.
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