With Broker as our new communication middle-layer, we set the foundation for more open and distributed deployments of Bro. Broker is the successor of Broccoli, with much more emphasis on asynchronous, distributed communication. Over the past decade, we learned that scaling network monitoring fundamentally requires load balancing. Bro cluster deployments are becoming mainstream, and Broker lays the foundation to harness them effectively.
Internally, Broker leverages CAF, the C++ Actor Framework, which lifts the actor model to modern C++ environments. We foster a close collaboration with the CAF developers, who have been very responsive and helpful so far. Recently, the team reached out to us for an interview, which you can find at their blog:
Stay tuned for more Broker-related updates in the future.
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