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Continuous Benchmarking With Bencher
Bencher is a tool made to detect and prevent performance regressions before they make it to production, benchmarking within a continuous integration pipeline. Scott Moore interviews the founder, Everett Pompeii in this episode.
Mitigating the Rising Threat of Ransomware Attacks
Ransomware attacks are on the rise and have increased by almost 50% in the last year. How can companies mitigate this threat and lower the severity of impact on their business? Ron Foster from Saltworks Security walks us through it.
Observability and AI: Early Moves by Key Vendors
Several Observability vendors have made announcements about integrating generative AI into their product. Scott reviews and breaks down what it means in this episode.
Performance Engineering for Decision Makers
What value does the test results provide performance engineer versus a decision maker? Why should you use Cost as a quality gate to control the efficiency of applications?
Secrets to Continuous Performance In DevOps
What does continuous performance look like within modern software development and in a DevOps world? Learn from experts Lee Barnes & Scott Moore.
The fastest SSD RAID?
Find out about why software RAID isn’t fast enough for the latest NVMe storage advancements, and how GRAID Technology is making SSD fast enough to keep up with the CPU.
Classic Episodes
Google Core Web Vitals and Website Performance: 3 Important Insights.
Google Core Web Vitals and website performance. What do they mean and why do we care?
This 1 WordPress Plugin is AMAZING!
The Admin Site Enhancements (ASE) Wordpress Plugin offers a wide range of features and customization options, making it a valuable investment for WordPress site owners.
Episode 061: 2022 Observability Market Study
Scott discusses the 10 Key Takeaways from the DEJ 2022 Observability Market Study
Episode 041: How to SELL performance testing
Scott speaks with Brian Copeland about how to “sell” performance testing to internal and external clients, helping them see the value of performance testing to their organization.
Performance Engineering for Decision Makers
What value does the test results provide performance engineer versus a decision maker? Why should you use Cost as a quality gate to control the efficiency of applications?
Episode 097: LoadRunner 2022 SP2 Release Overview
Scott interviews the product marketing manager for LoadRunner about the new features in the new version, as well as a demo of the Prometheus monitor.
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.