The SMC Journal is a podcast about all things related to Software Engineering, DevOps, Observability, 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.
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Legendary Marketing Secrets For Software Companies
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Former Mercury Interactive CMO, Chris Lochhead, reveals the company's customer-obsessed culture, aggressive execution strategies, and focus on category design that led to its legendary success in the software testing market. Learn how their unique approach can be applied to any company looking to dominate its industry. 🚀 Key Takeaways: ● Customer o…
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How I became a performance engineer
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This is the story of how I became a performance engineer. See the blog that goes with this video at https://scottmoore.consulting/blog/performance-engineer/ 🔥 Like and Subscribe 🔥 💰 Sponsors If you are interested in sponsoring my content, contact me directly via email or LinkedIn for more information. email = heyscott @ smcjournal.com (remove space…
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My Insights Switching From Unifi To A Peplink Wireless AP
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Why I switched from Ubiquiti to Peplink Wireless APs for better Wi-Fi performance. Use code PERFTOUR for a special discount at https://bit.ly/buypeplinksmc My insights switching from Unifi to a Peplink wireless AP. n this episode of the SMC Journal podcast, I share my journey of replacing a Ubiquiti Unify Wireless Access Point with a Peplink Wirele…
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Cloudflare Speed Brain - Improve Your Website Performance For Free
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Load your website 45% faster with Cloudflare Speed Brain. Speed Brain uses the Speculation Rules API to prefetch content, making pages load almost instantly. 🚀Cloudflare's Speedbrain feature uses speculation rules API from Chrome to prefetch content, reducing page load times by up to 45% for static content. 🖱️Speedbrain predicts user navigation bas…
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The P99 Conference has top performance engineering insights! P99 CONF
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The P99 Conference 2024, taking place on October 23-24, will focus on performance engineering and feature insights from industry leaders, emphasizing the significance of the 99th percentile in performance metrics and showcasing advancements in distributed databases and emerging technologies. Join the P99 Conference 2024 on Oct 23-24 by registering …
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Scaling Kubernetes, Microservices, and Ephemeral Environments
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Speedscale addresses the challenges of scaling Kubernetes in a microservices and containerized, ephemeral environment. This includes real-traffic replays and service mocking to find bottlenecks and tune production and development environments. This episode sponsored by SpeedScale https://bit.ly/46KFWbY Insights on Scaling Kubernetes 🔍 Speedcale hel…
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What is DevPerfOps, you ask? DevPerfOps is a crucial concept in software engineering, emphasizing the integration of performance engineering into DevOps to prioritize and ensure continuous performance improvements. Key Insights About DevPerfOps 🧠 Scott Moore is focused on making a contribution to improve the group as a whole, with a particular inte…
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Mastering OpenTelemetry and Observability
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"Mastering OpenTelemetry and Observability" is a new book by Steve Flanders. Observability in complex systems is crucial, and OpenTelemetry is the future of providing open source and vendor agnostic instrumentation and data collection for better understanding and troubleshooting system behavior. Key Insights on Mastering OpenTelemetry 🔍 Observabili…
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Using eBPF for Better Kubernetes Performance
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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. Donald Lutz shares his experience using it, and some of the pitfalls to watch out for on this SMC Journal #podcast. Key Insights on eBPF Performance 🚀 The use of eBP…
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Optimizing Software Systems - The Art Of Performance Engineering
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Performance engineering is crucial for ensuring efficient, cost-effective, and fast software, especially in mission-critical systems, and it involves anticipating and addressing system performance issues throughout the software development lifecycle. Andre Bondi discusses performance engineering and the content in his book, "Foundations of Software…
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Discover the Peplink B One Multi-WAN Router
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The Peplink B One offers advanced features and capabilities for improved connectivity and redundancy, making it a valuable investment for home office users who need resilient Internet connections. It 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.…
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Optimizing the Cloud With Performance Engineering
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Optimizing cloud performance saves resources, money, and reduces environmental impact. 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 th…
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Fluency Security SIEM With Streaming Analytics
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Fluency Security's real-time analytics and unique approach to SIEM sets them apart from traditional security platforms, allowing for faster detection and response to security threats. Scott Moore interviews the CEO, Chris Jordan. Key insights into Fluency Security 🛡️Fluency Security integrates real-time analytics with security platforms, setting th…
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Peplink Tech Summit 2023 Part 2
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Tech Summit Part 1. West Networks and Peplink are leaders in the SD-WAN industry. They recently hosted their annual Tech Summit conference in Savannah, GA. Networking enthusiasts come together to share information and make the community bigger, while also discussing the potential impact of 5G and Starlink on the future of fixed wireless. This video…
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Peplink Tech Summit 2023 Part 1
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West Networks ABD Peplink are leaders in the SD-WAN industry. They recently hosted their annual Tech Summit conference in Savannah, GA. Networking enthusiasts come together to share information and make the community bigger, while also discussing the potential impact of 5G and Starlink on the future of fixed wireless. Video Highlights For The Pepli…
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Which Database Is The Fastest?
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Think your Database is fast? How does it measure up? The database market is constantly evolving with new technologies and options, and it is crucial for clients to make decisions based on specific needs and measurements rather than relying solely on rankings. Benchmarking and performance baselines of Databases takes a specialized skill set. Find ou…
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Load Test Like a Rock Star (Part 2)
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A load test is crucial for identifying and fixing problems early on, and by conducting performance testing as a repeatable process, performance testers can find and solve problems early in the software development lifecycle, ultimately providing significant value to their company. Insights About A Load Test 📈 The session delves into the different t…
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Load Test Like a Rock Star (Part 1)
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Executing a load test is crucial for identifying and resolving performance issues in a system, and it should be approached systematically with accurate automation, monitoring, and analysis. Show Notes For Load Test Like a Rock Star 🎯 “Load testing is a crucial aspect of software engineering and modern IT, encompassing testing, tuning, observability…
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Monitoring As Code With Checkly
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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. Support the SMC Journal. Buy Me A Coffee: https://bit.ly/smcjournalcoffee Show Notes GUEST: Hannes Lenke L…
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Real User Monitoring Metrics The Easy Way
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Real user monitoring is a crucial tool for improving website performance by capturing accurate data on user experience and providing actionable insights and recommendations. Scott Moore interviews Todd Gardner the CEO to find out how this is possible. Support the SMC Journal. Buy Me A Coffee: https://bit.ly/smcjournalcoffee Show Notes GUEST: Todd G…
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Open Source Observability
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Open source observability could be a cost-effective and community-driven alternative to commercial platforms, offering valuable features and promoting innovation. Scott Moore interviews the founder of Signoz. Insights About Open Source Observability 🌍 Open source observability platforms provide a cost-effective alternative to commercial tools, addr…
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Get Continuous Performance Profiling Metrics With eBPF
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The extended Berkeley packet filter (eBPF) is a powerful tool for continuous performance profiling and monitoring of complex systems, providing valuable metrics and insights for performance engineers and enabling early issue detection and resolution in a DevOps culture. 🔥 Like and Subscribe 🔥 Key insights 🚀 Frederick Branik discusses the benefits o…
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See The Future Of Remote Access For Developers
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NearEDGE is a solution for managing and troubleshooting compute infrastructure and software assets - giving remote access to software assets in the cloud, with strong security practices and minimal friction for developers. GUEST: Claude Robitaille, CEO NearEDGE LINKEDIN PROFILE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clauderobitailleeng/ 🔥 Like and Subscribe …
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Conferences For Performance Engineers
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Alex Podelko, a senior performance engineer at Amazon Web Services, discusses the biggest changes in performance testing in the last three to five years. He highlights the importance of continuous testing and monitoring in the cloud and agile development era, as well as the challenges of developing a one-size-fits-all approach to continuous perform…
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Get A Career In DevSecOps
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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. Support the SMC Journal. Buy Me A Coffee: https://bit.ly/smcjourna…
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Get This JMeter Plugin
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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 author of this plugin. They also discuss the importance of contributing to the JMeter open source project. GUEST: Jakub (Kuba) Dering LINKEDIN PROFILE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ku…
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Learn How To Scale Kubernetes
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In this episode, we take each component of Kubernetes and determine how to make it scale. Scott interviews the CTO of PerfectScale on how to optimize Kubernetes deployed applications. Show Notes GUEST: Eli Birger LINKEDIN PROFILE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eli-birger-44aa8717/ Perfect Scale: https://www.perfectscale.io/ OpenAI - Scaling Kubernete…
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Implement Service Virtualization Into DevOps Today
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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. GUEST: Ken Ahrens, CEO of Speedscale LINKEDIN PROFILE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kahrens/…
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Blackhat and Defcon 2023 Coverage
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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. Show Notes New Jersey Cyber Fireside: http://www.cyberfiresidenj.com/ Tributech - https://www.tributech.io/ Sponsors This podcast i…
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AI Driven End-To-End Automated Testing
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Modern applications are more complex than ever. This means more testing to get the best coverage and reduce risk. It's overwhelming. Will AI make test automation faster, easier, and better? Scott Moore talks to the founder and CEO of TestGrid to find out. LINK TO EMBEDDED YOUTUBE VIDEO Support the SMC Journal. Buy Me A Coffee: https://bit.ly/smcjou…
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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. Support the SMC Journal. Buy Me A Coffee: https://bit.ly/smcjournalcoffee GUEST: Tammy Everts LINKEDIN PROFILE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tammyeverts/ Show Not…
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SteadyBit and LoadRunner
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Scott Moore interviews the CEO of SteadyBit about the LoadRunner integration that provides chaos and resilience testing features to load testing scenarios. GUEST: Benjamin Wilms LINKEDIN PROFILE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjamin-wilms/ Show Notes SteadyBit website: https://steadybit.com/ LoadRunner Chaos Testing for Scenarios: https://admhelp.m…
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Application Security Posture Management
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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 breaches. Support the SMC Journal. Buy Me A Coffee: ht…
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What’s new in the LoadRunner Family 2023
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LoadRunner 2023 R1 is out. Scott Moore interviews product manager David McLeish to get details about the new product features and updates. Support the SMC Journal. Buy Me A Coffee: https://bit.ly/smcjournalcoffee GUEST: David McLeish LINKEDIN PROFILE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-mcleish-58a9b62/ Show Notes LoadRunner Professional Help Center …
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Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM)
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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? GUEST: Scott Sumner, CMO at Kadiska LINKEDIN PROFILE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scosumner/ Show Notes Kadiska: https://kadiska.com/ Free Trial URL: http://kad…
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TestMU Conference 2023
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The TestMu conference happening in August of 2023 is a free online-only conference featuring top speakers in the QA testing community. In this episode we discuss what you can expect and the trends in testing today with Mudit Singh of LambaTest. GUEST: Mudit Singh LINKEDIN PROFILE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/muditsingh5000/ Show Notes TestMu 2023 C…
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The Impact of AI on Observability
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Observability platforms are announcing integrations with OpenAI ChatGPT. How will AI affect the future of these products and what new features can we expect? Guest: David Tattersall, CEO of Intergral FusionReactor Support the SMC Journal. Buy Me A Coffee: https://bit.ly/smcjournalcoffee Show Notes GUEST: David Tattersall Intergal FusionReactor has …
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Load Testing Apache Kafka With LoadRunner
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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. Show Notes What is Apache Kafka? A software platform built for event streaming. What is event streaming? Think of it as a central nervous system for all of your applications to communicate. It captures data i…
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Continuous Benchmarking With Bencher
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Bencher is a tool made to detect and prevent performance regressions before they make it to production, used within a continuous integration pipeline. Scott Moore interviews the founder, Everett Pompeii in this episode. Show Notes Site: https://bencher.dev GitHub: https://github.com/bencherdev/bencher Prior benchmarking efforts: https://bencher.dev…
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Ransomware attacks are on the rise and have increased by almost 50% in the last year. How can companies mitigate this threat and lower the severity of impact on their business? Ron Foster from Saltworks Security walks us through it. Show Notes Thales 2023 Report on Ransomware: https://www.thalesgroup.com/en/worldwide/security/press_release/2023-tha…
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Several Observability vendors have made announcements about integrating generative AI into their product. Scott reviews and breaks down what it means in this episode. Show Notes Recent announcements covered in this episode Honeycomb taps into chatGPT with Query Assistant: https://siliconangle.com/2023/05/03/honeycomb-introduces-generative-ai-query-…
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Performance Engineering for Decision Makers
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What value does the test results provide performance engineer versus a decision maker? Why should you use Cost as a quality gate to control the efficiency of applications? Support the SMC Journal. Buy Me A Coffee: https://bit.ly/smcjournalcoffee For a video version of this episode: https://youtu.be/hhoIn5MKGnI Show Notes GUEST: Joey Hendricks, Seni…
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Continuous Performance
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What does continuous performance within modern software development look like in a DevOps world? Scott interviews Lee Barnes for insights. For a video version of this episode: https://youtu.be/upgccupN3NA Support the SMC Journal. Buy Me A Coffee: https://bit.ly/smcjournalcoffee Show Notes Lee Barnes Twitter: @USI_LeeBarnes Forte Group: Fortegrp.com…
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The fastest SSD RAID?
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Find out about why software RAID isn't fast enough for the latest NVMe storage advancements, and how GRAID Technology is making SSD fast enough to keep up with the CPU. Support the SMC Journal. Buy Me A Coffee: https://bit.ly/smcjournalcoffee For a video version of this episode: https://youtu.be/UtV75W4j0Yg Show Notes Whitepaper: Performance Compar…
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Shifting Left With LoadRunner Developer
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Demonstrating LoadRunner Developer and how to use it within a standard IDE like VS Code to produce low level load testing of new features, with the testing executed by the developers. Scott comments on the value of shifting left and shows that many of the statements about LoadRunner not being viable for developers is untrue. Additional links to che…
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DDOS Attacks and BOT Mitigation
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DDOS attacks are on the rise. In this episode, we discuss the types of attacks and how to create a mitigation strategy against bad BOTS. Ron Foster from Saltworks Security shares how to identify and mitigate these kinds of attacks. For a video version of this episode: https://youtu.be/0GdURRSP_6E Support the SMC Journal. Buy Me A Coffee: [https://b…
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My Virtualization Server
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How does a performance engineer approach building a high performance virtualization server on a budget? For a video version of this podcast: https://www.youtube.com/embed/6CpEn1mOYBk Support the SMC Journal. Buy Me A Coffee: https://bit.ly/smcjournalcoffee Show Notes Scott Moore builds his own virtualization server. Parts used: Supermicro M11SDV-8C…
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Software Engineering News - Spring 2023
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The latest information in software engineering, including new product releases, acquisition, and news items centered around performance testing, observability, AIOps, and more. For a video version of this episode: https://youtu.be/KIGjIm4mSds HPE to acquire OpsRamp AIOps Platform: https://devops.com/hpe-to-acquire-opsramp-to-gain-aiops-platform/ Sm…
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OpenTelemetry Profiling?
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Profiles are an exciting new data type in OpenTelemetry coming soon to help round out what is possible with OpenTelemetry instrumentation. Josh Lee from Instana dives into the details. Episode: 120 Air Date: 04/18/2023 Title: Opentelemetry Profiling GUEST: Josh Lee (Instana) LINKEDIN PROFILE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshuamlee/ For a video vers…
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Security Testing With SaltMiner
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Scott Moore interviews the Founder of Saltworks Security about their new SaltMiner Community Edition software, and how they help security testers in a DevOps world handle CI pipelines. For a video version of this podcast: https://www.youtube.com/embed/has7ALblTAc Support the SMC Journal. Buy Me A Coffee: https://bit.ly/smcjournalcoffee Show Notes S…
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