I used treats to teach my cat to come to me when I ring a bell.
She already knew the sound of a treat dropping on the hard floor so I would ring the bell and then drop the treat. Eventually I switched to just ringing the bell and she would come running.
Right, but it’s possible to execute those API requests to trigger those expensive database requests in a way that wouldn’t necessarily trigger cloudflare’s DDoS protection.
That’s amazing! Congrats on sobriety.