A whole pub is one IP address, and our rate limiter used to take the venue offline

Rate limiting advice is almost always written as requests per minute per IP. It is good advice, and it rests on an assumption so ordinary nobody states it: one IP address is roughly one client. Our app runs pub quiz nights. A hundred people in a room, all on their phones, all behind the pub's WiFi, all arriving at our servers from one exit IP. The... Weiterlesen: A whole pub is one IP address, and our rate limiter used to take the …