Cloudflare Bot Management: machine learning and more

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This post introduces the Cloudflare Bot Management platform, detailing its product and technical requirements. It explains the concept of 'The Score' as a unified metric for bot detection, ranging from 0 (bot) to 100 (human). The post outlines the architecture, highlighting the use of microservices, Kafka, ClickHouse, Postgres, Redis, and Ceph for data processing and storage. It also details the Edge Bot Management module's real-time detection capabilities, producing fields like `cf.bot_management.score`, `cf.bot_management.verified_bot`, and `cf.bot_management.static_resource`, as well as the `cf_bm` cookie and JS challenges.