Indexing and Searching RSS feeds

Many companies produce RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds for their employees, partners, and customers. Moreover, these same companies consume RSS feeds from their suppliers whether it be personal news information or more timely business data. RSS is a great way to digest this information, but after a certain period, it may not be possible to [...]

Splunk as a SOA Consumer

When you think about Service Oriented Architectures (SOA), Splunk doesn’t come to mind first. However, it is important to realize that any entity that is able to consume or produce services is by definition a participant in a SOA. With that said, let me state that Splunk can easily capture and index the output of [...]