A Perfect Storm: DDoS Attack Hits Turkish Luxury Retailer During Fall Collection Launch

When high-stakes events meet unprecedented attack volumes, disruption can be devastating. A Turkish luxury retail platform experienced this firsthand when it was hit with a record-breaking application-layer DDoS attack, peaking at 14.2 million requests per second RPS. This marks the largest DDoS...

prevent crashing when running out of database connections

One common total crash for Confluence is when it does run out of database connection. Any reliable web application should be able to resist to a peak in number of request and not to fully crash when this happens. This is also a security issue because it means that anyone could easily bring the...