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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 103: End-To-End Tests With OpenTelemetry and TraceTest
Tracetest is a tool that allows you to quickly create end-to-end tests via a simple User Interface. It is the first visual tool that allows users to build and run integration and E2E tests against any system that is instrumented with OpenTelemetry
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.
What is Digital Experience Monitoring?
What is Digital Experience Monitoring? Scott Moore and Mehdi Daoudi, CEO of Catchpoint Systems cut through the confusion.
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.
Episode 025: Load Testing Vendor Acquisitions 2020 – 2022 (part 1)
Scott Moore and guest Mark Tomlinson discuss major acquisitions of load testing products and what that means for the performance engineering community. Part 1 of 2.
Cloudflare Speed Brain: Your Web Pages 45% Faster – For Free
Cloudflare Speed Brain makes websites load up to 45% faster by prefetching content using the Speculation Rules API. It prefetches content from Cloudflare’s cache based on user interaction, leading to faster page loads and a better user experience.
Real User Monitoring For Amazing Website Performance
How does Real User Monitoring metrics provide? How important is a high score in Google Lighthouse to website performance?
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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