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Kyle Smith
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Kyle Smith

Kyle Smith is a self-proclaimed geek and has been working with Splunk extensively since 2010. He enjoys integrating Splunk with new sources of data and types of visualization. He has spoken numerous times at the Splunk User Conference (most recently in 2014 on Lesser Known Search Commands) and is an active contributor to the Splunk Answers community and also to the #splunk IRC channel. He was awarded membership into the SplunkTrust as a founding member. He has published several Splunk Apps and add-ons to Splunkbase, the Splunk community's premier Apps and add-ons platform. He has worked in both higher education and private industry; he is currently working as an integration developer for Splunk's longest running professional services partner. He lives in central Pennsylvania with his family.
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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...

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Kyle Smith

Kyle Smith is a self-proclaimed geek and has been working with Splunk extensively since 2010. He enjoys integrating Splunk with new sources of data and types of visualization. He has spoken numerous times at the Splunk User Conference (most recently in 2014 on Lesser Known Search Commands) and is an active contributor to the Splunk Answers community and also to the #splunk IRC channel. He was awarded membership into the SplunkTrust as a founding member. He has published several Splunk Apps and add-ons to Splunkbase, the Splunk community's premier Apps and add-ons platform. He has worked in both higher education and private industry; he is currently working as an integration developer for Splunk's longest running professional services partner. He lives in central Pennsylvania with his family.
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