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Staying Ahead In The Game of Distributed Denial of Service Attacks

Too much traffic can crash a website. I learned that hard lesson relatively early in my web development career. Web teams recoil in horror when they realize their own success has crashed their site. Remember when Coinbase spent millions of dollars on a Super Bowl commercial that successfully drove traffic to their site and app? Their infrastructure got run over.

Congratudolences: You Inherited a Website

Yes! You got what you wanted. You have a new job where you are in charge of the website. And that means you get to make all the decisions about how to run website operations or WebOps.

Well, like it or not, three decades into the World Wide Web, it's rare (and not necessarily desirable) to start from scratch. Whether you're a digital marketer, a developer or an IT director, having authority to lead the future direction of your site comes with the responsibility for past decisions.

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