Splunk Developer's Guide: Learn the A to Z of building excellent Splunk applications with the latest techniques using this comprehensive guide, Edition 2

Marco Scala has been working for more than 15 years in delivering solutions to Large Enterprise Customers, first in the APM and J2EE field, and since 2009 in the field of Operational Intelligence and Splunk. He has provided consultancy for big Splunk installations on major Customers, focusing on the best and more effective solution for each different Customer's need. Since 2012 he's also a Certified Splunk Trainer. In the last years his major focus is to get Splunk Customer to gain the maximum value from their IT data, and provide the Business a better view and insight. BigData is another major field of interest, and his next challenge is using Splunk to give Customers useful insights and a practical implementation and exploitation of BigData.

Kyle Smith is a self-proclaimed geek and has been working with Splunk extensively since 2010. He enjoys integrating Splunk with new sources of data and types of visualization. He has spoken numerous times at the Splunk User Conference (most recently in 2014 on Lesser Known Search Commands) and is an active contributor to the Splunk Answers community and also to the #splunk IRC channel. He was awarded membership into the SplunkTrust as a founding member. He has published several Splunk Apps and add-ons to Splunkbase, the Splunk community's premier Apps and add-ons platform. He has worked in both higher education and private industry; he is currently working as an integration developer for Splunk's longest running professional services partner. He lives in central Pennsylvania with his family.