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SteadyBit and LoadRunner
Scott Moore interviews the CEO of SteadyBit about the LoadRunner integration that provides chaos and resilience testing features to load testing scenarios.
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
What’s new in the LoadRunner Family 2023
LoadRunner 2023 R1 is out. Scott Moore interviews product marketing manager David McLeish to get details about the new product features and updates.
Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM)
Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) is a defined category by Gartner to address the true user experience. Are there visibility gaps left open by traditional APM and Observability platforms.
Generative AI And Observability: Huge Impacts Beyond 2024
Discover how AI and Observability are transforming application monitoring. Learn about the challenges, benefits, and the future of AI-driven insights.
Load Testing Apache Kafka With LoadRunner
Load testing Apache Kafka with the LoadRunner Kafka Protocol. What does it look like? Watch a demo of the protocol in action on this episode
Classic Episodes
Episode 018: Speedscale: Performance Test Kubernetes WITHOUT Script Automation?
Speescale captures and replays real network traffic and allows for performance tuning with out script automation.
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.
Episode 041: How to SELL performance testing
Scott speaks with Brian Copeland about how to “sell” performance testing to internal and external clients, helping them see the value of performance testing to their organization.
Helpful Load Testing Insights For 2025
Load testing in 2025 continues to be a critical aspect of software development and performance engineering.
Real User Monitoring For Amazing Website Performance
How does Real User Monitoring metrics provide? How important is a high score in Google Lighthouse to website performance?
Episode 043: PeopleSoft Performance Testing with PSTuners
Scott Interviews Gautam Patel of PSTuners. They discuss testing and tuning PeopleSoft and load testing in general.
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.