A brief clarification

As we continue to progress through this book, we will create an App from the ground up. The App's name is SDG (from a filesystem perspective) and the App label will be Developer's Guide for Splunk. It will be available in its entirety on Splunkbase at https://splunkbase.splunk.com/app/2693/. Additionally, we will be using an API provided by meh.com, a daily deal site that was kind enough to build an API to their website. They were chosen primarily because they fit the geek culture pretty well, and provide a very simple-to-consume API. The data that will be consumed is pulled from their website's API using scripted inputs located in the bin folder of the sample SDG application.

Let's recall the questions from Chapter 1, Application Design Fundamentals, that revolve around App creation. We should answer some of them in preparation for building our demo App:

• Identifying the use case:
  • We are building this App as a learning experience for the reader. By...