Mica Swyers, Jay Chan - Finding Spammers & Scammers through Rate Tracking with Python & Redis

Why watch

This PyCon 2015 talk teaches how to build a Redis-backed velocity engine in Python to detect spammers and scammers by analyzing request rates. Viewers will learn the fundamentals of rate tracking, why it's effective for identifying malicious actors, and how to implement a practical anti-spam system using Python and Redis.