Bringing reliability to OSSEC

Posted on by David Vassallo

As we saw in a previous blog post, OSSEC is UDP based. This is great for performance, and can scale to 1000s of nodes. However, it means there is an inherent problem of reliability. UDP is a connection-less protocol, hence the OSSEC agent has no guaranteed way of knowing that a particular event has been … Continue reading Bringing reliability to OSSEC

Nugget Post: Golang HTML Templates

Posted on by David Vassallo

Golang authors have an excellent article on how to build a wiki web application entirely out of go. Towards the middle of the article, they mention the html/template package. For those of you familiar with templating systems like jade, handlebars, or flask/jinja... you should feel right at home. In golang, templating needs no third party frameworks, no … Continue reading Nugget Post: Golang HTML Templates