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Have you ever been responsible for the performance and security of a publicly accessible web server? I'll accept robots indexing my content if they play nicely. Unfortunately most do not, even from major vendors.


Not a web server but yeah we dealt with it by black listing patterns (IPs, requests etc) from misbehaving domains.

We never distinguished automations from people though, that makes no sense on the internet.


> We never distinguished automations from people though, that makes no sense on the internet.

LOL I see you've never sold anything on the internet, ran a website that is supposed to generate leads, or had to gauge the effectiveness of an ad campaign. There is a huge part of the internet that relies on real humans doing things on websites. And ignoring that is insane.


Maybe I should clarify: It makes no sense from a system architecture perspective. Obviously if you're doing analytics you want to know the difference.


A systems architecture perspective should be very very inclusive of the business perspective.


In theory.

In practice business people have such a poor intuition for systems design you end up with borderline unusable software when you do that.


that's why systems architects are supposed to get paid well, because there are a lot of different stakeholders to consider




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