Michael Baum is chief executive splunker at Splunk. During his career, he has been building and managing large distributed infrastructures, most recently at Yahoo and Infoseek. His focus now is applying many of the innovations and affordances that grew out of the Web to the challenges of managing the modern data center. You can read his blog at www.splunk.com/blogs/thebaum.
Decades ago, when we were all computing on mainframes, the application stack was pretty simple. Programs were all running in core memory on the same machine as the operating system and the data store. There was typically one transactional log for activity and one for errors - not too m...Nov. 19, 2005 09:00 AM EST Reads: 22,541
