How Stack Overflow fends off scraping bots

As Josh explains, DDoS attacks aim to take down a website, while bot scrapers try to gather as much data as possible without getting caught. Josh Zhang is a staff site reliability engineer (SRE) at Stack Overflow. Connect with him on LinkedIn. ICYMI: In 2022, Josh wrote an article for our blog about how Stack defends itself against DDoS attacks. Stack Overflow user Serge Ballesta won a Lifeboat badge for answering What does |= mean in c++. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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