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Episode 083: How automation and observability impact DevOps Performance
Scott Moore interviews Alex Darby, Director of APM Services at Orasi Software about automating observability and shifting performance left to impact DevOps Performance.
Solving the Kubernetes Autoscaling Challenge The Easy Way
Solving the Kubernetes autoscaling challenge. Find out about Bi-dimensional POD autoscaling. Scott Moore interviews Patrick Bergstrom, Chief Technology Officer of StormForge.
Episode 078: Performance Lab and BoomQ
Scott Moore discusses the services of Performance Lab and their flagship product, BoomQ. Vik gives a demonstration of the main features of the product. They also talk about the kinds of performance issues modern enterprises are struggling with today.
Episode 076: Tricentis NeoLoad 9: Browser Based Load Testing
Scott Moore speaks with Bryan Cole about the new release of NeoLoad, which now has Browser-based load testing virtual users (RealBrowser) as well as many other major feature updates. They also talk about upcoming performance events like the Performance Advisory Board (PAC) (October 2022) and the Performance Tour Meetup in Atlanta (09/29/2022).
Episode 075: ICPE 2023 Performance Conference
Scott speaks with David Daly about the International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE) event for 2023. Call for papers are out now and submissions due in October 2022.
Episode 074: AI-powered autonomous optimization
Scott Moore discusses AI-powered autonomous optimization and how it works with Stefano Doni (CTO) of Akamas. What does that mean? Can it be used on any application or system to improve performance?
Classic Episodes
Episode 053: Keysight Eggplant Performance Part 2 of 2
Scott reviews the Keysight Eggplant Performance load testing product. This episode covers how to use it to perform load testing tasks. Part 2 of 2.
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.
Episode 018: Speedscale: Performance Test Kubernetes WITHOUT Script Automation?
Speescale captures and replays real network traffic and allows for performance tuning with out script automation.
5 Reasons Load Testing Doesn’t Work (My Free Advice)
Scott Moore takes a critical look at a persistent challenge in the IT world: why load testing often doesn’t work as intended.
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.
The fastest SSD RAID?
Find out about why software RAID isn’t fast enough for the latest NVMe storage advancements, and how GRAID Technology is making SSD fast enough to keep up with the CPU.
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.