"Amelia's Sad Face" by donnierayjones is licensed under CC BY 2.0 . MetaCPAN.org, the essential search engine for Perl’s CPAN repository, has faced months of severe traffic issues that brought the service to its knees with frequent 503 errors. Here’s how the team fought back against an army of misbehaving bots and hostile traffic. The Problem Emerges MetaCPAN began experiencing multiple 503 service errors daily, disrupting access for legitimate Perl developers worldwide. Traditional monit...
