Life of an IT Sysadmin Living in QA
After a career building up my IT skills elsewhere, I’ve spent the last year and a bit working within QA for Splunk. It’s been a fascinating ride, coming from being a sysadmin user of Splunk who couldn’t sway the people at the purse strings to finance a bigger license… to being a part of the dev team that has brought 4.3 to market.
I pondered at times when I was testing early versions of the UI changes that Splunk was courting a different demographic and losing touch with sysadmins. The same sysadmin/networkadmin user base that put Splunk on the map.
My concerns were myopic at best.
In testing the command line interface, getting to know REST, installing Splunk hundreds of…
