Blocking Bots & Moving from Redis to SQLite with Mike Buckbee

Today, we have Mike Buckbee on the show. Mike is the co-founder of Wafris, and he wrote a really insightful article last week about moving from Redis to SQLite for an aspect of their architecture. The article was nuanced in describing why it worked for their specific needs, and it has some surprising takeaways, including that SQLite was 3x faster than a local Redis instance for their workload. Mike has built a few different WAF (Web Application Firewall) products, so we covered that area as well. He's seen a lot here, so we walked through all the nefarious traffic patterns and the speed in which these bots adapt to new vulnerabilities. Finally, Mike has a wide-ranging skillset that includes marketing. Developers are notoriously tricky to market to, so we talked about his experience in effective marketing to developers without being disingenuous. Links Blog Post: https://wafris.org/blog/rearchitecting-for-sqlite For A Good Strftime: www.foragoodstrftime.com IP Lookup: wafris.org/ip-lookup Timestamps 01:11 Start 03:41 Wafris 07:22 Redis and SQLite 19:09 Flatfile 21:50 Knowatoa 28:22 Web Application Firewalls 46:21 Jumpstart Pro 48:11 Marketing to Developers