Practical embedding in GoLang

Eric Urban has written a phenomenal blog post about embedding in Golang: http://www.hydrogen18.com/blog/golang-embedding.html Embedding in Golang is an important concept to  grasp, especially when coming from an object-oriented paradigm, since as Eric describes, embedding in Golang is superficially similar to OO's inheritance concept. I came across a practical need for doing this when dealing with … Continue reading Practical embedding in GoLang

AlienVault: Adding a logger to a distributed deployment

There has been some confusion about how exactly to add a dedicated logger appliance to an AlienVault distributed deployment, that is, a setup where server roles (SIEM server, database, loggers, sensors, etc) are hosted on separate servers. It's not very well documented so here goes (with many thanks to AlienVault Support for providing the information): The configuration … Continue reading AlienVault: Adding a logger to a distributed deployment