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Off-topic, but our freemium website is under attack by headless browsers. The freemium service provides access to compute-heavy machine learning models running on GPUs. Hackers blast 50-100 requests in the same second, which clog the servers and block legitimate users. We reported IPs to AWS and use Cloudflare "Super Bot Fight Mode" to thwart attacks, but the hackers still break through. We don't require accounts, bu…
Reposting my previous notes on Playwright ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30060135 ): I just want to plug Playwright by Microsoft as I've been using it over the past month and have had a really great experience with it: https://playwright.dev It's built by the founders of Puppeteer which came out of the Chrome team. Some things I like about it: 1. It's reliable and implements auto-waiting as described in the a…
Off-topic, but our freemium website is under attack by headless browsers. The freemium service provides access to compute-heavy machine learning models running on GPUs. Hackers blast 50-100 requests in the same second, which clog the servers and block legitimate users. We reported IPs to AWS and use Cloudflare "Super Bot Fight Mode" to thwart attacks, but the hackers still break through. We don't require accounts, bu…
Off-topic, but our freemium website is under attack by headless browsers. The freemium service provides access to compute-heavy machine learning models running on GPUs. Hackers blast 50-100 requests in the same second, which clog the servers and block legitimate users. We reported IPs to AWS and use Cloudflare "Super Bot Fight Mode" to thwart attacks, but the hackers still break through. We don't require accounts, bu…
Why not ReCAPTCHA?
It is possible, but this degrades the experience for legitimate users.
We prefer solving this without impacting/taxing normal users if possible.
Off-topic, but our freemium website is under attack by headless browsers. The freemium service provides access to compute-heavy machine learning models running on GPUs. Hackers blast 50-100 requests in the same second, which clog the servers and block legitimate users. We reported IPs to AWS and use Cloudflare "Super Bot Fight Mode" to thwart attacks, but the hackers still break through. We don't require accounts, bu…
Perhaps Captcha?
It is possible, but this degrades the experience for legitimate users.
We prefer solving this without impacting/taxing normal users if possible.
What do people thing of playwright vs cypress? I've been considering using playwright instead as it supports more browsers and I feel like it's easier to do production monitoring (by putting it in a aws lambda or using checkly) - Cypress: https://www.cypress.io - Playwright aws lambda: https://github.com/PauloGoncalvesBH/running-playwright-on-aw... - Checkly: https://www.checklyhq.com
Pros of Playwright/Puppeteer:
Reuse existing HTML/CSS knowledge
Cons: Requires an external service or shelling out to an external process
Pros of using a pdf lib:
Probably better performance, simpler architecture by being in-process.
Cons: Ad-hoc language for designing the PDF.
For generating PDFs like invoices in a webapp, is libraries like this the way to go these days or is still using a pdf lib the norm? Pros of Playwright/Puppeteer: Reuse existing HTML/CSS knowledge Cons: Requires an external service or shelling out to an external process Pros of using a pdf lib: Probably better performance, simpler architecture by being in-process. Cons: Ad-hoc language for designing the PDF.