Building a resilient web server   Early in the year, we encountered a number of challenges, one of the most disruptive was a sustained wave of automated attacks hammering several of the web servers we manage. The volume of traffic overwhelmed server resources, slowing websites to a crawl and frequently triggering 504 Gateway Timeout errors. With uptime and user experience at risk, we needed a robust solution to detect and block malicious traffic in real time, before it could do further...