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Request throttling #467

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knowtheory opened this issue Jan 11, 2019 · 0 comments

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knowtheory commented Jan 11, 2019

Occasionally someone tries to scrape DocumentCloud's document collection.

This can bog DC's app servers down while they're waiting for results from the search machine.

Here's one suggestion on how to deal with it: https://github.com/kickstarter/rack-attack

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