SMC Journal
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About SMC Journal
The SMC Journal is a weekly podcast about all things related to Software Engineering, DevOps, Observability, Cloud Computing, Security, AI, and much more. The show covers news events, company profiles (mergers and acquisitions), corporate events, vendor software features and updates, and much more.
Content includes commentary and demonstrations by Scott Moore and his guests. Join him as he interviews industry experts, company representatives and hosts lively discussions with the performance community.
Software Engineering: Performance or Security?
In software engineering, what is the balance performance and security? Do you have to choose one over the other? Is highly secure software slower? Ron Foster from Saltworks is on this episode to discuss this topic.
Can You Automate Application Reliability?
Can you prepare ahead of time for a point load situation like Black Friday? Aperture is an open source flow control and site reliability management platform from FluxNinja developed to address this problem.
What is Digital Experience Monitoring?
What is Digital Experience Monitoring? Scott Moore and Mehdi Daoudi, CEO of Catchpoint Systems cut through the confusion.
2023 Predictions For Systems Engineering
2023 Systems Engineering Predictions and Trends for Cloud, DevOps, Observability, Performance Engineering, Security, and more
Episode 105: SMC Journal 2022 Year In Review
The Year in Review for the SMC Journal, and Performance Engineering everywhere in 2022.
Episode 102: Open Source Database Performance With Percona
David Stokes from Percona talks about common pitfalls that people fall into when implementing open source databases like MySQL, PostGreSQL, and MongoDB. He also mentions several key things you can do to keep these databases running at peak performance.