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In this post I’ll walk through the steps to download a free copy of Splunk, apply for a 10GB/day developer license, and set up your own Splunk server for your homelab. Splunk is a great tool to learn because it’s widely used especially in large companies and because it’s fun to dig in to. In the future, I’ll post about getting data into Splunk from a variety of sources including Unifi network equipment, Corelight/Zeek, Salesforce, Microsoft, and more! ...

When Agentforce was released, the obvious use cases were internal AI chat for employees using Salesforce and customer-facing chat support integrated with Omni-Channel, but Salesforce announced support for calling Agentforce from flows as well. At first the flows use case made less sense to me (especially with the price for each Agentforce conversation at around $2), but since then I’ve seen use cases where calling an agent from a flow has made sense and I have a few key takeaways and tips. ...

Overview I was inspired to create this blog after watching a NetworkChuck video from about 5 months ago. He talked about building out a pipeline to automatically format notes from Obsidian using Hugo, push the results to a GitHub repository, and then have GitHub send a webhook to Hostinger which would trigger Hostinger to clone his repository and update his website. I think that the pipeline he created is really cool and he has a detailed post about it on his blog so I decided to try it out for myself. I figured that if I was going down this rabbit hole anyway, I figured I might as well try to make some improvements to his pipeline and get hands-on with GitHub Actions along the way! ...