Some time ago I wrote about building an Australian search engine by abusing how AWS Lambdas work. You can view it at bonzamate.com.au, and read the post about it here. Recently I noticed that Bonzamate.com.au was in turn being abused by a series of bots repeatedly making queries against it. Now normally I don’t worry about bots. There is little you can do to stamp them out entirely, and its always nice to see someone trying to exploit the things you work on. However should the bots either r...
