What the biggest DDoS attack in history can teach developers

Google Cloud revealed in October of last year that it had successfully stopped the worst Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack in history, which had been affecting companies since August. Why was this DDoS the worst one yet? The volume was the problem. The attack recorded more than 398 million requests per second (rps) at its height. In contrast, the most severe DDoS assault ever discovered up to that time, discovered in 2022, was measured at 46 million rps. Thus, the attack that broke the record in the fall of 2023 was eight times larger than the previous one. Even though the magnitude was astounding, it also fit in well with the way DDoS attacks have been developing lately. Cybercriminals in this instance were able to start the DDoS once they