After the ban

At some point it also became clear to me that evaluating the result codes from all IPs (not what they loaded, only what the HTTP server thought of it) had, on the one hand, turned into a fairly substantial PII collection (which is why I kept it only in main memory) — one that under certain circumstances would have allowed me to “depseudonymize” the data in the pseudonymized logfile within the first 24h. Stopgap solution … yes. Final architecture … not really. On top of that, this table was pretty annoying. Reboot the machine? Data gone. New daemon version? In most cases, data gone. I did learn a technique along the way that let me swap code on the fly, but that didn’t apply to data structures. I need a new field? Data gone! And once the data was gone, the reaction component lost a key data element. At some point a function had been added that checked whether the service had even been running long enough to have collected enough data. Which, due to changes, was rarely the case. Beyond…