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Grab This Essential JMeter Plugin Now!
The Throughput Shaping Timer JMeter plugin makes it easy to crate a test scenario that will produce a desired number of requests per second (RPS). Scott interviews the creator of this plugin.
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.
Best Practices For DevOps With Service Mocking
Service Virtualization or Mocking is crucial to the model application development lifecycle. Scott interviews the CEO of Speedscale about the importance of implementing mocking and how to do it properly. This includes imitating API calls that perform poorly.
Blackhat and Defcon 2023 Coverage
As part of his Blackhat and Defcon conference coverage, Scott interviews Alex Waintraub and Thomas Plank on application security topics. They cover ransomware, data tampering detection, and the impact of AI on appsec.
AI Test Automation with Testgrid Is Awesome
Scott Moore talks to the founder and CEO of TestGrid to find out how AI test automation is changing the game for end to end automated testing. It includes a demo of the product.
How Performance Budgets Make Your Website Screaming Fast!Performance Budgets
Performance budgets are an important control mechanism to keep web applications fast and efficient. Tammy Everts shares how to set them up and apply the latest practices for great results.
Classic Episodes
Scaling Performance Engineering Teams – 3 Great Insights
Scaling Performance Engineering Teams in today’s large enterprise is difficult. How do leading companies like Kroger do it?
Episode 024: Instant Performance Telemetry From Any Linux Executable?
Let’s take a look at CRIBL and theri AppScope software.
Episode 022: The NEW WordPress Performance Plugin
Wordpress powers 40% or more of the web, and recently their contributing team decided performance should be a core attribute (not something a plugin should be responsible for).
Legendary Marketing Secrets For Software Companies
Legendary Marketing is not very common in today’s corporate world. Discover the secrets to building a legendary software company and market like a genius.
Episode 006: Google Lighthouse 9 and User Flows
Episode #006: Google Lighthouse 9 and User Flows Air Date: 01/20/2022 8:00 a.m. EST https://www.youtube.com/embed/pxoeECj_zFM What's New In DevTools (Chrome 98): https://developer.chrome.com/blog/new-in-devtools-98/ What's new in Lighthouse 9.0:...
Episode 095: Performance Engineering Solutions with Ryan Foulk
Scott Moore interviews Ryan Foulk, founder of Foulk Consulting. They discuss performance testing solutions and how performance engineering is changing over time.
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.