James D. Miller is an IBM-certified expert, creative innovator, director, senior project leader, and application/system architect with 35+ years extensive application, system design, and development experience. He has introduced customers to new and sometimes disruptive technologies and platforms, integrating with IBM Watson Analytics, Cognos BI, TM1, web architecture design, systems analysis, GUI design and testing, database modeling and systems analysis. He has done design and development of OLAP, client/server, web, and mainframe applications.
I would like to thank Nanette, Shelby and Paige who continually amaze me with their support and love.
Kyle Smith is a self-proclaimed geek from Pennsylvania and has been working with Splunk extensively since 2010. He has spoken many times at the Splunk User Conference and is an active contributor to the Splunk Answers Community, the #splunk IRC Channel, and the Splunk Slack Channels. He has published several Splunk apps and add-ons to Splunkbase, the Splunk community’s premier app, and add- on publishing platform. He now works as a consultant/developer for Splunk's longest running Aplura, LLC. He has written Splunk Developer's Guide, also by Packt.
I'd like to thank my wife, who most graciously put up with all of my BS during the writing of this book. Without her, this effort is meaningless.
Yogesh Raheja is a certified DevOps and cloud expert with a decade of IT experience. He has expertise in technologies such as OS, source code management, build & release tools, continuous integration/deployment/delivery tools, containers, config management tools, monitoring, logging tools, and public and private clouds. He loves to share his technical expertise with audience worldwide at various forums, conferences, webinars, blogs, and LinkedIn (https://in.linkedin.com/in/yogesh-raheja-b7503714). He has written Automation with Puppet 5 and Automation with Ansible.
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