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Episode 066: Digital Twin Technology with guest Jonathon Wright (Keysight Technologies) – Part 2 of 2
Digital Twins: What is it and how does it apply to performance? part 2 of 2
Episode 065: Digital Twins – Part 1 of 2
Scott talks to Jonathon Wright (Keysight) about the concept of the Digital Twin and how the concept applies to performance engineering.
Episode 064: Performance Engineering News (Summer 2022 Edition)
Scott shares current news, articles, and events around performance engineering for summer 2022.
Overcoming Observability Obstacles With Instana
Observability goes beyond monitoring, providing full-stack visibility into logs, traces, and metrics to understand application performance in real-time. In this SMC Journal, we discuss overcoming observability obstacles.
Episode 062: 5 Reasons Performance Testing Sucks
Scott shares five reasons why performance testing is not effective in organizations when they are out of balance or do not communicate between teams very well.
Episode 061: 2022 Observability Market Study
Scott discusses the 10 Key Takeaways from the DEJ 2022 Observability Market Study
Classic Episodes
Episode 073: OpenText Buys Micro Focus!
Scott shares his thoughts and opinions on the recent OpenText acquisition of Micro Focus and what it could mean for LoadRunner and the legacy Mercury products.
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.
Helpful Load Testing Insights For 2025
Load testing in 2025 continues to be a critical aspect of software development and performance engineering.
Performance Engineering for Decision Makers
What value does the test results provide performance engineer versus a decision maker? Why should you use Cost as a quality gate to control the efficiency of applications?
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 048: Load testing Kubernetes With Traffic Replay
Why traffic replay at scale is a great option for load testing Kubernetes deployed applications.
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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