Splunk is a magical tool - it sucks in your logs, indexes them and gives you a rich search and data mining application to drill deep into them.

But as a developer why the heck would you want to use this sort of tool - surely that's something for Operations?

In this session, I show how using Splunk whilst developing can give insight into your code - how to time transactions, graph volumes and analyse performance - and how Splunking as a developer will make life in production that much easier - because you'll already know how to answer those knotty questions your management will inevitably ask.