Seriously, AOL named this after the god of child sacrifice, you might want to put a new marketeer on this project, I won't be touching anything with a name like that.
AOL Moloch: open-source, large scale, packet-capturing, indexing database system
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Re: AOL Moloch: open-source, large scale, packet-capturing, indexing database system
#152Earlier quoted context omitted.
If they named it something like “ Pinochet ” or PIZZAGATE , I’m sure we’d be getting completely different responses from the same people who think naming a project after a child sacrifice idol is “funny” or “cool“.
Do you have a list of forbidden words ? Asking for a friend.
You have the wrong end of the stick. I am not here to forbid some words, but to liberate others.
Re: AOL Moloch: open-source, large scale, packet-capturing, indexing database system
#153Earlier quoted context omitted.
That was my immediate thought as well. Profoundly and deeply unsavory.
You are offended by the name of an open source project ? Your life must be easy.
Names have symbolic value beyond the intended referent. Typically, wisdom dictates choosing names that aren't immediately offensive out of the gate.
I won't speculate on whatever led you to such fatuous conclusions, because ad hominem is a bad reasoning.
Re: AOL Moloch: open-source, large scale, packet-capturing, indexing database system
#154Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sorta like https://www.wireshark.org/ . But Moloch is a very active project, used by many, and used internally at Verizon Media. Aol is part of Verizon Media (which brought AOL and Yahoo together). Open source is very active here. ;-) Compare also to https://enterprise.verizon.com/products/security/advanced-th... (formerly known as Protectwise), which is not open source.
Ignorant question for you: What does AOL do these days (I can't view the website for the same reason I don't read TechCrunch articles)? Is it fully about online publications now?
Not ignorant, they don't advertise it, ironically(?).
They're an ad network.
Re: AOL Moloch: open-source, large scale, packet-capturing, indexing database system
#155This is cool, thanks for sharing! I'll be honest, I didn't think AOL did anything...interesting...but this is interesting to me! What are some open-source alternatives / analogues to this product?
Seems like there would be at least some overlap with Metron[1] and/or Spot[2].
Of the two, I'm more familiar with Metron (I actually did a small amount of work on it back before it was an Apache project). The core "thing" of Metron was always a large-scale, high-speed packet capture mechanism that would allow you to apply real-time streaming analytics / ML to packet streams, as well as supporting indexing the packets with ElasticSearch for post-hoc retrieval / analysis.
Spot seems to employ some similar ideas, but I haven't dug into it as deeply.