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SPLUNKY BREWSTER
Technical dispatches from the trenches of Splunk, security, AI, and infrastructure.
I Got Rick Rolled by Claude (And Here's the Proof)
I was live-streaming on TikTok, building out a content automation tool with Claude, when it dropped a helpful-looking link into our chat. I clicked it. Cue music…
WATCH THE VIDEO →Triaging 9,877 Unread Emails with TypeSafe's Jev Model
My vote is cast: I’m bullish on Jev and System One models. Every bulk-classification job I have thrown at a chat model has the same shape: cost and latency scale...
READ →ML Social: An AI-Powered Content Generation Platform
Check out more Machine Learning shorts on the Need-to-Nerd YouTube channel and subscribe for updates on AI, security, and data engineering content. ML Social is an AI content generation platform...
READ →So You're Connected to Splunk's MCP Server - Now What?
You got the proxy running. The green checkmark appeared. splunk_get_info came back with your instance version and a healthy status. Now you’re staring at a blinking cursor wondering what exactly...
READ →Shrinking a GCP Boot Disk the Hard Way (Because There Is No Easy Way)
You can’t shrink a persistent disk in GCP. You can grow one in about 3 seconds, but shrinking? Google basically says “lol no.” So when I needed to take a...
READ →Splunk MCP Server Setup and Troubleshooting
READ →Connecting Splunk's MCP Server to Claude Code CLI: What Actually Worked (and What Didn't)
READ →Migrating Splunk to SmartStore with GCP: A Field Guide
Migrating Splunk to SmartStore with GCP: A Field Guide After spending way too long troubleshooting a SmartStore migration that “should have been working,” I figured I’d document what actually happened...
READ →Standard Deviation of Volume Ingestion for Alerting
READ →Boots on the Ground: End-to-End MCP Discovery with Shodan and Python
READ →Why Non-Coders are Winning in the Synthetic Renaissance
READ →Boosting Docker on Windows with Experimental autoMemoryReclaim
Introduction Docker Desktop on Windows has come a long way since its WSL 2 integration debut. Yet, one persistent pain point has been RAM management under heavy container workloads. In...
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