Thank You, Cloudflare!

For obvious reason, I can't go into detail, but I want to say, with the help from Cloudflare, now I got a better understanding of how Cloudflare works when dealing with massive DDoS attacks.

Cloudflare provides this vast capability to collect and visualize billions of requests. From that, you can get a much better understanding of your traffic pattern. Then you can use a DSL to create rules to protect your websites.

Before this massive attack, I thought it would work like magic, but it turned out you need to understand your traffic first. Then you can have better ideas to protect it. Cloudflare can provide much useful information to help you achieve that. Also, the speed and reliability to deploy any changes are just amazing.

Last but not least, I should probably thank the attacker too. Without their efforts, I would not learn so many useful things in a week.