As we continue to progress through this book, we will create an App from the ground up. The App's name will be SDG (from a filesystem perspective) and the App "label" will be "Developer's Guide for Splunk." It will be available in its entirety on Splunk base at https://splunkbase.splunk.com/app/2693/. Additionally, we will be using an API provided by meh.com, a daily deal site that was kind enough to build an API for their website. They were chosen primarily because they fit the geek culture pretty well, and provide a very simple-to-consume API. The data that will be consumed is pulled from their website's API.
Let's recall the questions from Chapter 1, Application Design Fundamentals, that revolve around App creation. We should answer some of them in preparation for building our demo App:
Identify the use case:
We are building this App as a learning experience for the reader. By providing an App at the end of this book, with all the examples from the book contained within the...