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5 Reasons Load Testing Doesn’t Work (My Free Advice)
Scott Moore takes a critical look at a persistent challenge in the IT world: why load testing often doesn’t work as intended.
Software Lifecycle Engineer: The Best Role For Performance Engineering?
Scott Moore introduces the Software Lifecycle Engineer (SLE). How is it different from the Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET), or the Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)? Is it even worth considering as a new title?
Eliminating Blind Spots to Achieve Application Resilience
What is Internet Performance Monitoring (IPM)? In this episode of the SMC Journal, you’ll learn about blind spots in current APM and Observability platforms, and why IPM is crucial for monitoring modern applications on the web.
How Altinity Enhances The Value of ClickHouse®
In this episode of the SMC Journal show, we talk to the CEO of Altinity about how they add value to ClickHouse implementations for enterprise users and the future of this fast growing segment of the industry.
Helpful Load Testing Insights For 2025
Load testing in 2025 continues to be a critical aspect of software development and performance engineering.
Bonded Cellular Network Speed with a Peplink HD4 is Amazing
Check out the power of bonded cellular modems with the Peplink HD4 MBX and see the results of a real-world speed test.
Classic Episodes
Achieving Cyber Resilience: Insights From LevelBlue
Cyber resilience refers to an organization’s ability to prepare for, respond to, and recover from cyber incidents. Find out how your organization can achieve this on this episode of the SMC Journal.
Episode 069: The Application Performance Index (APDEX)
What is the Application Performance Index (APDEX) and what should performance engineers know about it?
Episode 094: KubeCon 2022: Summary Overview
Scott shares his thoughts on the KubeCon 2022 conference held in Detroit.
Boost Your Synology Backup Game With An External USB Drive!
Create a 3-2-1 backup system with Synology NAS and an external USB drive for critical files. Boost Your Synology backup game by adding a USB drive. Here’s my experience with an unboxing and setup of the hardware and software.
Best Practices For DevOps With Service Mocking
Service Virtualization or Mocking is crucial to the model application development lifecycle. Scott interviews the CEO of Speedscale about the importance of implementing mocking and how to do it properly. This includes imitating API calls that perform poorly.
Episode 065: Digital Twins – Part 1 of 2
Scott talks to Jonathon Wright (Keysight) about the concept of the Digital Twin and how the concept applies to performance engineering.
About SMC Journal
The SMC Journal is a podcast about all things related to Software and Systems Engineering, DevOps, Observability, Performance, 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.
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