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Episode 096: Actionable Observability With Metrist
Scott Interviews Ryan Duffield – CTO, Metrist. They discuss how Metrist monitors back end cloud services to provide better incident management response and prevent outages.
Episode 095: Performance Engineering Solutions with Ryan Foulk
Scott Moore interviews Ryan Foulk, founder of Foulk Consulting. They discuss performance testing solutions and how performance engineering is changing over time.
Episode 094: KubeCon 2022: Summary Overview
Scott shares his thoughts on the KubeCon 2022 conference held in Detroit.
Episode 093: KubeCon 2022: Dynatrace and Keptn
Dynatrace has released the new Keptn Lifecycle Toolkit. Scott interviews Thomas Schuetz at Kubecon 2022 in Detroit.
Episode 092: KubeCon 2022: Akamas
At KubeCon 2022, Scott Moore interviews the CEO and CTO of Akamas about their impressions of the conference and how their solution helps attendees with automated AI tuning and optimization of their Kubernetes deployed applications.
Episode 091: KubeCon 2022: Keysight Technologies and Instana
At KubeCon 2022,Scott Interviews Josh Lee to find out his impressions of the conference. He also interviews Jonathon Wright about the themes, takeaways, and what’s being learned at this event.
Classic Episodes
Episode 042: One-click Load Testing With Supervisor
Scott speaks with Lauri Kasti about Supervisor, and Lauri takes the viewers through a demo.
Discover the Peplink B One Multi-WAN Router. Review, Unboxing and DISCOUNT CODE
The Peplink B One packs some Enterprise features into the firmware along with multi-WAN capabilities, that makes it a step above other wireless AP routers in its class. You can pick one up at buypeplink.com and use my code PERFTOUR for an additional 5% off.
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.
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 046: Profiling Database Performance Under Load
This episode discusses the importance of profiling databases to solve performance bottlenecks, as well as the top features of DBMarlin which allows any relational database to be profiled under load.
Scaling Performance Engineering Teams – 3 Great Insights
Scaling Performance Engineering Teams in today’s large enterprise is difficult. How do leading companies like Kroger do it?
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.