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Episode 090: KubeCon 2022: DevOps, GitOps, and Performance with Viktor Farcic
Scott Moore interviews Victor Farcic, host of the well-known YouTube channel “The DevOps Toolkit”. They discuss what part performance plays in the minds of those in the DevOp, GitOps, and Kubernetes realm. The need for specialization with performance and the myth of the full-stack “anything” is covered.
Episode 089: KubeCon 2022: LitmusChaos
Scott Moore interviews Uma Mukkara, of LitmusChaos (now part of Harness). They discuss how chaos engineering is being received at KubeCon 2022. How and when should a company begin introducing the chaos concepts into their organization? Find out in this episode.
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?
Episode 087: Monitoring Infrastructure With Checkmk
Scott interviews Elias Voelker of CheckMK about monitoring applications, servers, and networks.
Episode 085: Dynatrace Releases (the holy) Grail
Scott interviews Bryan Chandler at Dynatrace about the new feature called Grail.
Shifting Performance Left: 5 Great Ideas To Transform
Shifting performance left can transform your organization. Is addresses performance issues earlier in the software development lifecycle.
Classic Episodes
Load Test Like a Rock Star (Part 1)
Load testing is crucial for identifying and resolving performance issues in a system, and it should be approached systematically with accurate automation, monitoring, and analysis.
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.
SteadyBit and LoadRunner
Scott Moore interviews the CEO of SteadyBit about the LoadRunner integration that provides chaos and resilience testing features to load testing scenarios.
Episode 019: HTTP/3 QUIC – Does it Perform?
How will HTTP/3 affect overall performance of web applications within the browser?
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.
Real User Monitoring Metrics The Easy Way
Real user monitoring is a crucial tool for improving website performance. Learn about Request Metrics, a simple platform, and how it can help improve your site today!
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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