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Enterprise Mobility Anywhere with Peplink
Enterprise mobility solutions are revolutionizing how businesses stay connected in an increasingly mobile world.
Scaling Kubernetes (k8s) For Amazing Cost Savings and Efficiency
Speedscale founder Ken Ahrens discusses the challenges of scaling Kubernetes in a microservices and containerized environment
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What is DevPerfops?
What is DevPerfOps? It’s is a crucial concept in software engineering, emphasizing the integration of performance engineering into DevOps.
Mastering OpenTelemetry and Observability
“Mastering OpenTelemetry and Observability” is a new book by Steve Flanders. Observability in complex systems is crucial, and OpenTelemetry helps troublshoot system behavior.
eBPF Performance Monitoring Makes Kubernetes Better
eBPF is a powerful tool for improving performance in Kubernetes and microservices, providing real-time analysis and management, but its complexity may be a barrier for some developers.
Classic Episodes
Get A Career In DevSecOps
Want to move your career into the DevSecOps space? Are you wondering what it takes to get a job Cybersecurity or where to start? Scott Moore interviews Tim Chase – Field CISO at Lacework about this very topic and how he switched over from performance engineering to security testing.
Application Security Posture Management
What is Application Security Posture Management (ASPM)? A new category by Gartner that describes an approach to managing application security throughout the lifecycle. It helps organizations identify, prioritize, and remediate vulnerabilities, comply with regulations and reduce the risk of data breache
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 087: Monitoring Infrastructure With Checkmk
Scott interviews Elias Voelker of CheckMK about monitoring applications, servers, and networks.
Cloudflare Speed Brain: Your Web Pages 45% Faster – For Free
Cloudflare Speed Brain makes websites load up to 45% faster by prefetching content using the Speculation Rules API. It prefetches content from Cloudflare’s cache based on user interaction, leading to faster page loads and a better user experience.
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.
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.