StyloBot Release Series: Testing the Thing That Won't Sit Still

How do you test a detector whose answer is supposed to change as it learns? This post is about BDF, the Behavioural Definition Format that makes StyloBot testable: one file defines a class of traffic, then drives regression replay, load generation, and a…

StyloBot Release Series: The Sidecar Architecture

StyloBot's detection engine is ASP.NET Core. This post explains how that engine connects to Go gateways, Node.js applications, and any other stack via a gRPC sidecar, a typed Go SDK, and a Caddy plugin, without any of those consumers needing to know anything…

StyloBot Release Series: Finding and Fixing Unbounded Growth in Long-Running .NET Services

Long-running services tend to slowly drift toward unbounded memory. Here's how I find that drift, how I think about fixing it without papering over it, and a worked example from StyloBot's vector similarity layer that took it from 13 GB on the Large Object…

StyloBot Release Series: Learning to Get Faster

Heads up: this one is for the nerds. It's a deep technical dive into StyloBot's adaptive learning system (EWMA updates, hysteresis thresholds, verdict caching, variance watchdogs), with real code from Mostlylucid.BotDetection and pointers to the equivalent…

The Road Ahead

Well today was a BIT OF A DAY. I handed in my notice on one contract (been in it almost 2 years!) and my other contract decided to terminate...SO...at the end of May I'll be officially unemployed. It's an odd one...at the moment my body is filled with nervous…