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Become The Ultimate Presales Engineer
Brian Copeland of Solutionment shares insights into his latest Book, “The Ultimate Solutioneer” about the common pitfalls that can cause a presales engineer and their organizations to fall short of expectations.
Optimizing Software Systems
Optimizing Software Systems: The Art Of Performance Engineering. Performance engineering is crucial for ensuring efficient, cost-effective, and fast software.
Boost Your Synology Backup Game With An External USB Drive!
Create a 3-2-1 backup system with Synology NAS and an external USB drive for critical files. Boost Your Synology backup game by adding a USB drive. Here’s my experience with an unboxing and setup of the hardware and software.
Upgrading To An 80TB Synology NAS
Scott Moore upgrades his home lab hardware, discusses limitations of previous storage, and shares experience with the Synology 1823xs+ NAS.
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.
Optimizing the Cloud With Performance Engineering
Companies are wasting up to 80% of resources that could be reallocated. Performance engineering is crucial for optimizing cloud services and make digital transformation successful. David Linthicum, chief cloud architect at Deloitte, discusses its importance in this interview.
Classic Episodes
Scale Kubernetes and Boost Performance
Let’s look at each component of Kubernetes and determine how to make it scale. The CTO of PerfectScale shares how to optimize k8s deployed applications.
Episode 015: Load Testing Tools: Where is the value?
Discussing segmentation and specialization in the tool vendor market. Article mentioned:
Episode 050: The Load Test Scenario Builder
Scott reviews the free Load Test Test Scenario Builder and how you can use it to set up realistic load testing. Download it here: https://bit.ly/scenariobuilder
Prometheus: The New Monitoring Standard?
Is Prometheus the new monitoring standard? Let’s take a look at the impact on performance testing and monitoring in general.
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
Optimizing Software Systems
Optimizing Software Systems: The Art Of Performance Engineering. Performance engineering is crucial for ensuring efficient, cost-effective, and fast software.
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.