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Security, auth & multi-tenancyHardSDE-3

Your payments API is hit by a DDoS attack: first a 400 Gbps UDP flood, then a slow, distributed HTTP flood of valid-looking requests at 2 million RPS. Walk me through a layered defence architecture.

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