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Episode 102: Open Source Database Performance With Percona
David Stokes from Percona talks about common pitfalls that people fall into when implementing open source databases like MySQL, PostGreSQL, and MongoDB. He also mentions several key things you can do to keep these databases running at peak performance.
Battle Of The Engineers: Performance Vs. Site Reliability! (SRE)
How can performance engineers and site reliability engineers (SRE) work together for the common goal of making software better, faster, and more efficient?
Digital Experience and Real User Monitoring (RUM) Wins!
Scott interviews Carly Richmond about Elastic APM and how it is used to gather deep information about the digital experience, including Real User Monitoring (RUM).
Episode 099: Peplink Tech Summit 2022 Review
Scott Moore interviews Martin Langmaid and Peter West at the Peplink Tech Summit in Savannah, Georgia in November 2022.
Episode 098: Catchpoint 2023 SRE Report
Scott Moore reviews the 2023 SRE Report from Catchpoint and shares his top 5 observations that performance engineers need to pay attention to.
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.
Classic Episodes
Episode 014: Dynatrace’s Open-Source Initiatives: Keptn and Monaco
Air Date: 02/15/2022 08:00 am. EST https://www.youtube.com/embed/5ZIrsZvSZW4 Guest: Henrik Rexed (Dynatrace) https://twitter.com/hrexed?lang=en https://rexed-henrik.medium.com/ https://twitter.com/IsitObservable https://www.youtube.com/c/IsitObservable Show Notes: Why...
Generative AI And Observability: Huge Impacts Beyond 2024
Discover how AI and Observability are transforming application monitoring. Learn about the challenges, benefits, and the future of AI-driven insights.
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.
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.
Episode 021: LoadRunner Product Roadmap for 2022
What’s New with LoadRunner? What I learned at the LoadRunner Family Virtual Forum. You can access the replay here:
Blackhat and Defcon 2023 Coverage
As part of his Blackhat and Defcon conference coverage, Scott interviews Alex Waintraub and Thomas Plank on application security topics. They cover ransomware, data tampering detection, and the impact of AI on appsec.
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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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