Air Date: 03/29/2022
Guest: Mark Tomlinson
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Scott Moore and guest Mark Tomlinson discuss 4 major acquisitions of load testing products in the last 2 years and what that means for the performance engineering community and IT industry. This is part 2 of 2.
Show Notes:
Let’s look at the merger and acquisition activity going on in the performance testing tool space.
- Grafana Labs/K6 – June 2021 – https://venturebeat.com/2021/06/17/grafana-labs-acquires-load-testing-startup-k6/
- Perforce/Blazemeter – interesting that this was purchase from Broadcom after multiple buyouts (CA buys Blazemeter, Broadcom buys CA) – September 2021 – https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/perforce-to-acquire-blazemeter-continuous-testing-platform-from-broadcom-301388818.html
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