Blogs: Developers
Serendipity is….
"Serendipity is looking in a haystack for a needle and discovering a farmer's daughter " - Julius Comroe I just read the quote in a presentation from Matt Jones of BERG at the DXf conference. There is so much i love about this presentation i don't know where to start. Just click through it ( embedded below ) and have your own reaction. It's clearly designed to be a fun/light read. I think I clicked at about one slide per few seconds. Then went back and stopped on a few that really spoke to me. It was entertainment that made me think which then made me smile. At its heart, splunk is a time… Read More »
Add a Server or Two!
Every week i run into someone that is having performance issues and they are not aware you can just add another server or two or ten. I'll travel to meet a company and I'll ask how many servers they are using for Splunk to search/index/report on a terabyte a day. They will say a couple. I'll then ask how many they have for a similar sized hadoop or data warehouse project. They will say 50 to 100X that number. Look if your going to give these systems 300+ servers, can we please get 15? Somehow there is a breakdown in our communication that we scale like all other good architectures. The… Read More »
Exponential is the entrepreneurs linear
I was in a meeting last thursday where some "important-people" ( not sure if they want to be named ) dropped the D word ( "disruptive" ) several times. They were presenting a slide that proved-out an age-old (1994?) adage that the key to success is ( can be ) a disruptive business model. It's one thing for professor Christensen to talk about it, and another when its bankers have a slide for it. Personally I need to be reminded of its importance every day, since being disruptive was one of the most important guiding principals when founding Splunk. As we grow, and become more established, i… Read More »
Collision of big data analytics and splunk
How people use Splunk is often a surprise to us - at least they are going beyond our original intent. Initially we thought of splunk as a search engine for log files, Google for your logs if you will, to help IT folks troubleshoot their complex systems. Quickly we found that users started Splunking config files, network packets, source code, email, etc. Over the years our customers have been dragging us into all sorts of new uses-cases like global windmill power plant data analysis, protein structure prediction, or just something simple like analyzing user behavior on a website. Lately we… Read More »
The Puppet Master Cometh
Last week Luke Kaines, The Master of Puppet, held a very well attended Puppet Camp here in SF. He drew a fantastic attendance from top notch companies - I was most impressed with the technical quality of the presentations and breakout sessions ( quality food too! ). These types of events can often be mundane or boring - this was not. Kudos to Luke for building a quality community. I had the pleasure of meeting Luke some three years ago back at a BayLISA event where I saw him win over a tough audience with an early incarnation of Puppet. Its been fun watching him over the years deliver on that… Read More »
(I’m Back!) The return of Splunk Free, as in Free Beer
*** Update 10/26/09 *** Free is Back!! Well it never really went away, but not its easy to run the free version of splunk. Downloads still contain an enterprise 60 day license, but you can covert to the free product at time you like and use it like a champion. Back several months, before the launch of 4.0, we were confronting at all the work ahead. As always, we had to make hard decisions about what is in and what is out. In 4.0 we had re-implemented much of the UI and a good chunks of the backend. With over 1000 paying customers and looking at a potentially challenging upgrade process and… Read More »