As Josh explains, DDoS attacks aim to take down a website, while bot scrapers try to gather as much data as possible without getting caught.
Josh Zhang is a staff site reliability engineer (SRE) at Stack Overflow. Connect with him on LinkedIn.
ICYMI: In 2022, Josh wrote an article for our blog about how Stack defends itself against DDoS attacks.
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