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Monitoring As Code With Checkly
Monitoring as code could be the future of synthetic monitoring, allowing for continuous monitoring of APIs and websites through automation scripts and configurations stored in a repository, making it a collaborative effort in a DevOps culture.
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!
Open Source Observability: A Free DataDog Killer?
Open source observability is a cost-effective and community-driven alternative to commercial platforms, but is this platform a Datadog killer?
eBPF Profiling: The Best Developer Observability Insights
Discover how eBPF profiling is transforming developer observability by providing real-time insights into application performance. Learn about the benefits of continuous profiling, its advantages over traditional methods, and explore open-source solutions like Parka that empower developers to optimize their code efficiently.
Conferences For Performance Engineers
Continuous performance engineering and testing, as well as attending conferences, are crucial for performance engineers to stay updated on industry trends and advancements in order to improve efficiency and create resilient systems.
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.
Classic Episodes
Episode 087: Monitoring Infrastructure With Checkmk
Scott interviews Elias Voelker of CheckMK about monitoring applications, servers, and networks.
Google Core Web Vitals and Website Performance: 3 Important Insights.
Google Core Web Vitals and website performance. What do they mean and why do we care?
Episode 024: Instant Performance Telemetry From Any Linux Executable?
Let’s take a look at CRIBL and theri AppScope software.
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.
Observability As Code With Checkly Is Amazing
Discover how Checkly is transforming software monitoring with “Observability as Code”. This approach allows developers to address the challenges of rapidly changing software.
Open Source Observability: A Free DataDog Killer?
Open source observability is a cost-effective and community-driven alternative to commercial platforms, but is this platform a Datadog killer?
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.