Summary: This week’s system design refresher: Process vs. Thread (Youtube video) ChatGPT Timeline DDoS Attack Fallacies of distributed computing What is the difference between Process and Thread? ChatGPT history ChatGPT and copy. ai brought attention to AIGC (AI-generated Content). Why is AIGC gaining explosive growth?
An example of a common DDoS attack is an SYN flood.
Normally the client and server establish a TCP connection via a 3-way handshake. As a result of an SYN flood attack, zombies send many SYN requests to the server, but they never return an ACK from the server.
This results in an exhaustion of resources on the victim server due to the accumulation of many half-open TCP connections.
👉 Over to you: Have you encountered a DDoS attack in production? How did you solve it? (View Highlight)
