Drupal Coming Soon to a Phone Near You!

Happy new year everyone!  With the start of 2014 comes the much anticipated release of Drupal 8.  While the official release date hasn’t been determined yet, it is being marketed as the most customizable and adaptable release of Drupal. The following features has been included that are particularly aimed to help End users/clients: Authoring – using the Spark project to review what was currently available in the market for out of the box functionality, Drupal 8 will allow in line editing which can be used for taxonomy and complex fields, and allows content updates to be made...


Vanity URLs in WebCenter Sites 11g Release 1

The latest release of WebCenter Sites, 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.8.0), now includes vanity URL support. If you’ve ever used GSF’s vanity URLs, this will look very familiar to you. WebCenter Sites’s implementation, however, does contain some slight differences. More significantly, there are some nice enhancements compared to the GSF vanity URLs.

The purpose of this post isn’t to bore you with all the technical details of how the vanity URLs are setup. For all those details, check out the Oracle WebCenter Sites documentation (...


Measuring Splunk Indexer Performance with IOMeter

Welcome! In this post I'd like to cover testing the I/O performance of your indexer to its storage sub-system.

'After the party, it's the hotel lobby'

You can think of your indexer as the lobby of a busy hotel with the hotel guests being your data. In this hotel, guests are constantly streaming into the lobby (raw event data). At the same time, guests are frequently leaving the hotel (search queries) to go on around the city, either periodically in buses (scheduled saved searches) or in an ad-hoc manner by taxi (user searches). To prevent the lobby from filling up from the incoming...


Godzilla and the Marketplace

JIRA, the issue tracking tool created by Atlassian, is a popular product to use in software development. Fun Fact: The name "JIRA" is commonly thought to be an acronym, but it's actually a shortened version of the word "Gojira," which means Godzilla in Japanese.

JIRA is so popular because it's extremely useful to manage all of the moving parts in a software development project. It can be used to keep track of bugs, requested improvements, and to perform overall project management. But, in order to...


Using HTTP with a HTTPS Proxy Forwarder in Splunk

I recently ran into an issue  with the Splunk Forwarder and found that we can solve it with a simple python script udpate.  This is applicable to the Salesforce app for Splunk, but could be applicable to other use cases as well.

Here, the requirement was to install the Salesforce TA into Splunk and configure the TA to pull data from Salesforce into Splunk. After downloading the TA and enabling the necessary inputs from Salesforce, I checked Splunk for data…nothing.

Why isn’t the Salesforce data coming into Splunk??

Next, I went to the internal logs in Splunk by...


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