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Shifting Left With LoadRunner Developer
Demonstrating LoadRunner Developer and how to use it within a standard IDE
DDOS Attacks and BOT Mitigation
DDOS attacks are on the rise. In this episode, we discuss the types of attacks and how to create a mitigation strategy against bad BOTS.
Building a Proxmox Server: The Efficient Home Lab
Build A Proxmox Server For Your Home Lab that is silent and power efficient, the way a performance engineer would.
OpenTelemetry Profiling: A Game Changer for Observability?
OpenTelemetry Profiling is coming soon to help round out what is possible with OpenTelemetry instrumentation. Josh Lee from Instana dives into the details.
Security Testing With SaltMiner
Scott Moore interviews the Founder of Saltworks Security about their new SaltMiner Community Edition software, and how they help security testers in a DevOps world handle CI pipelines.
What’s New In LoadRunner 2023?
Guest David McLeish shares all the new features and updates of LoadRunner 2023. We also talk about why the footprint in browser-based protocols like TruClient are so large.
Classic Episodes
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.
Episode 036: Load Testing Fundamentals (Part 1 of 4)
Scott Moore reviews the basics of Load Testing software applications. He provides a solid methodology for approaching load testing on any project regardless of the application or development style. Part 1 of a 4 part series
Episode 052: Keysight Eggplant Performance Part 1 of 2
Scott reviews the Keysight Eggplant Performance product for load testing. This episode covers version 9.4 overall architecture, installation, and licensing.
Open Source Observability: A Free DataDog Killer?
Open source observability is a cost-effective and community-driven alternative to commercial platforms, but is this platform a Datadog killer?
Episode 073: OpenText Buys Micro Focus!
Scott shares his thoughts and opinions on the recent OpenText acquisition of Micro Focus and what it could mean for LoadRunner and the legacy Mercury products.
Episode 024: Instant Performance Telemetry From Any Linux Executable?
Let’s take a look at CRIBL and theri AppScope software.
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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