Blocking Bots & Moving from Redis to SQLite with Mike Buckbee

Today, we have Mike Buckbee on the show. Mike is the co-founder of Wafris, and he wrote a really insightful article last week about moving from Redis to SQLite for an aspect of their architecture. The article was nuanced in describing why it worked for their specific needs, and it has some surprising takeaways, including that SQLite was 3x faster than a local Redis instance for their workload.

Mike has built a few different WAF (Web Application Firewall) products, so we covered that area as well. He's seen a lot here, so we walked through all the nefarious traffic patterns and the speed in which these bots adapt to new vulnerabilities.

Finally, Mike has a wide-ranging skillset that includes marketing. Developers are notoriously tricky to market to, so we talked about his experience in effective marketing to developers without being disingenuous.

Links

Blog Post: https://wafris.org/blog/rearchitecting-for-sqlite

For A Good Strftime: www.foragoodstrftime.com

IP Lookup: wafris.org/ip-lookup

Timestamps

01:11 Start

03:41 Wafris

07:22 Redis and SQLite

19:09 Flatfile

21:50 Knowatoa

28:22 Web Application Firewalls

46:21 Jumpstart Pro

48:11 Marketing to Developers