Splunk HTTP Event Collector: Direct pipe to Splunk

by Jussi Heinonen

In August 2016 the FT switched from on-premises Splunk to Splunk Cloud (SaaS). Since then we have seen big improvements in the service:

1. Searches are faster than ever before

Adventures with Neo4j and Timetrees

by Laurie Boyes

Update: Since writing this blog I’ve learnt that there may be a better approach to this problem. These days, Neo4j allows you to make indexes on numeric properties and run range queries that use the index. We can take…

Logging, Alerting and Recovery on the Force.com Platform

by Gareth Park

At the FT in 2015 an initiative took place to retire our old legacy fulfilment platform.

Automated API testing

by Naomi Stern

Developing microservices with RESTful APIs means a large amount of testing will involve hitting endpoints and checking the results. From the tester’s point of view, this is a lot of doing the same thing over and over, hitting the same endpoints over…

My First Week At The FT As A Graduate Engineer

The Data Platform: moving from Buckaroo! to building with Lego

by Rory Newton