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DESCRIPTION:For a few years now\, some astronomical data centers have obser
 ved an increasing number of incoming requests. This usually indicates that
  a service is becoming more popular and useful. However\, the number and r
 ate of these requests is so high that the services are becoming increasing
 ly overwhelmed\, ending up by a saturation and complete unavailability. Wo
 rryingly\, this trend is speeding up. Consequently\, services are becoming
  unavailable more often and more quickly than before.\n\nThe recently obse
 rved growth in activity actually hides a different user profile. Until now
 \, humans and indexing crawlers were the only users of our services. Now\,
  there is a new category of users: AI bots. Unlike the other users\, they 
 are much more aggressive. There are two main reasons for this. First\, the
 y rely on cloud infrastructures. This allows them to massively parallelize
  the web scrapping operations and use an enormous number of different IP a
 ddresses\, making them impossible to block with the usual methods. Second\
 , they do not adhere to any best practices\, such as the well-known `robot
 s.txt`\, which indexing crawlers (search engines) read and follow.\n\nThro
 ugh this BoF\, CDS (France)\, ESAC (Spain)\, and Data Central (Australia) 
 aim to discuss beyond the negative impact of this recent practice on their
  infrastructures and explore strategies to maintain the high availability 
 and quality of their services while allowing AI to reasonably interact wit
 h them. Everyone is welcome to join the discussion and share experiences\,
  solutions (e.g. mirrors\, proxy\, authentication\, ban with well-identifi
 ed and shared IP ranges)\, and\, more generally\, ideas.
DTSTAMP:20261015T123726Z
LOCATION:Seminar Room 3
SUMMARY:How to cope with the rapidly increasing number of aggressive incomi
 ng requests? - Simon O'Toole\, Christophe Arviset\, MANTELET Gregory\, Gil
 les Landais
URL:https://pretalx.adass.org/adass2026/talk/JBADXP/
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