Revisiting syslog-gollector

It’s been 18 months since the first commit to my first significant Go project — syslog-gollector. After an initial burst of activity to create a functional Syslog Collector that streamed to Apache Kafka, the source code hadn’t been updated much since. But today I received a report that it no longer built, so I spent some time porting the code to the latest Shopify Sarama framework.

It was amusing to see how naive much of my early Go code was.

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