Building Splunk Solutions: Splunk Developer Guide (Splunk Developer Guides)

This guide follows a Splunk software engineering team on a journey to build solutions with partners, focusing on the real world use cases to showcase various technologies of the Splunk Developer Platform. Like a documentary, it captures our story from envisioning and user experience prototyping to development, packaging and multiple production deployments. It includes the diverse perspectives of developers and testers, administrators and product owners, security experts and release engineers. As on any real journey, we make mistakes, have arguments, and change our minds along the way. So in addition to showing you how best to do things, we highlight the pitfalls and issues that we encounter, and the solutions we find. The key element of this guidance, of course, is the code. We’ve made the code repos open, and recommend you study the source code of the reference apps and the associated tests. In fact, you can see and replay the code in motion, as it was developed. We encourage you to reuse and learn from it.

Grigori Melnik is a Principal Product Manager at Splunk focusing on the Splunk Developer Platform. He helps software engineers embrace good practices and fosters software craftsmanship. Formerly at Microsoft, he produced patterns & practices components as well as architectural guidance to address common cross-cutting software engineering concerns. He also drove the Design for IT Efficiency imperative. Prior to that, he was a researcher and developer - long enough ago to remember the joy of programming in Fortran. He is an Associate Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Software magazine and an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the University of Calgary, Canada. He speaks around the world on the topics of operational and business intelligence, code reuse, cloud computing, agile methods, and software testing. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Calgary. Contact him at http: //twitter.com/gmelnik

Dominic Betts is a Senior Content Developer at Microsoft and is based in the UK. He has a background in in software development, IT training, and content creation for developers, architects, and IT professionals. Previously, in addition to working with Splunk, he has co-authored a number of books with the Microsoft patterns and practices team. His current area of interest is the Internet of Things.

David Foster is an experienced Splunk developer who has worked on several Splunk apps (Exchange, VMware, Twitter, Flurry) and on the Splunk platform itself (Splunk Web Framework, several SDKs). Beyond Splunk, David has been developing software over 20 years in a wide variety of languages and environments. Currently David is engaged with inspiring the next generation of grade schoolers to write their own computer programs.

Liying Jiang is a software engineer in Splunk. She joined Splunk in 2013 and has worked in the Splunk Seattle QA team since then. She has helped to ship Splunk 6 and various Splunk SDKs and apps. Before Splunk, Liying worked at Microsoft for seven years as a member of SQL Server, Office 365 billing and Commerce catalog teams.