# What Is Spicy webinar with Robin Sommer on 22 October

**URL:** <https://community.zeek.org/t/what-is-spicy-webinar-with-robin-sommer-on-22-october/7583>\
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**Created:** [September 24, 2024, 12:26pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/what-is-spicy-webinar-with-robin-sommer-on-22-october/7583 "2024-09-24T12:26:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![Richard\_Bejtlich](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/community.zeek.org/richard_bejtlich/32/597_2.png) [@Richard\_Bejtlich](https://community.zeek.org/u/Richard_Bejtlich)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2024, 12:26pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/what-is-spicy-webinar-with-robin-sommer-on-22-october/7583/1 "2024-09-24T12:26:58Z")

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Join Robin Sommer and Corelight Open Source on 22 October at 10 am GMT and 10 am PT to learn more about Spicy, a new parser generator—now integrated into Zeek—that makes it much easier to create robust analyzers for network protocols, file formats, and more.

This webcast will explain:

- Why parsing is a key component of any network monitor like Zeek, it remains challenging to implement correctly, and efficiently with traditional approaches.

- We will present Spicy’s novel take on the task, which enables developers to extend Zeek with new protocol and file analyzers without writing a single line of C++ code.

- We’ll go through Spicy’s design, see examples of its capabilities, and recap the project’s history and current state.

This will be a technical presentation—we’ll be looking at code!

Register now!

[https://go.corelight.com/os-getting-started-with-spicy](https://go.corelight.com/os-getting-started-with-spicy)