FOSDEM Video: Implementing 'tail -f'
At this year’s FOSDEM conference I did a 20 minutes presentation on how to implement tail -f in Go. The video is available below.
Abstract: As part of a log file monitoring tool, I implemented a file tailer that keeps reading new lines from log files. This turned out to be much more challenging than I thought, especially because it should run on multiple operating systems and it should be robust against logrotate. In this 20 Minutes talk I will present the lessons learned, the pitfalls and dead-ends I ran into.
- The FOSDEM talk: https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/event/go_tail/
- The monitoring tool: https://github.com/fstab/grok_exporter
- Slides: https://goo.gl/9ABX2R (docs.google.com)