Internet Performance Monitoring: Next Level Application Resilience

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A secret field that summons lightning. A massive spiral that disappears into a salt lake. A celestial observatory carved into a volcano. Meet the wild—and sometimes explosive—world of land art, where artists craft masterpieces with dynamite and bulldozers. In our Season 2 premiere, guest Dylan Thuras, cofounder of Atlas Obscura, takes us off road and into the minds of the artists who literally reshaped parts of the Southwest. These works aren’t meant to be easy to reach—or to explain—but they just might change how you see the world. Land art you’ll visit in this episode: - Double Negative and City by Michael Heizer (Garden Valley, Nevada) - Spiral Jetty by Robert Smithson (Great Salt Lake, Utah) - Sun Tunnels by Nancy Holt (Great Basin Desert, Utah) - Lightning Field by Walter De Maria (Catron County, New Mexico) - Roden Crater by James Turrell (Painted Desert, Arizona) Via Podcast is a production of AAA Mountain West Group.…

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Performance and the Software Lifecycle Engineer 23:53

11 days ago23:53

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Is the Software Lifecycle Engineer (SLE) the future for addressing software performance? In this video, Scott Moore will discuss a possible alternative to the Site Reliability Engineer for operational requirements across the entire software development lifecycle. 😀 For more great content like this check out the SMC Journal at https://smcjournal.com ✉️ Join the mailing list ► https://bit.ly/ytmailinglist 😆 For all of the parody videos we have, check out: https://bit.ly/techparodies…

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Internet Performance Monitoring: Next Level Application Resilience 35:52

18 days ago35:52

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What is Internet Performance Monitoring (IPM)? In this episode of the SMC Journal, you’ll learn about blind spots in current APM and Observability platforms, and why IPM is crucial for monitoring modern applications on the web. ☕ Want to support the show? Buy Me A Coffee! https://bit.ly/3NadcPK ☕ OR BUY MY COFFEE ► https://bit.ly/503blend 💵 Buy something from my Amazon Store ► https://bit.ly/smcllcamzn 👋 Connect With Me 📫 Newsletter (Subscribe): https://bit.ly/ytmailinglist 🔗 LinkedIn Profile: https://bit.ly/30Eshp7 🔗 LinkedIn Company: https://bit.ly/3kICS9g 𝕏 Twitter/X: https://bit.ly/3HmWF8d 📸 Instagram: https://bit.ly/smcinsta 🎥 TikTok: https://bit.ly/smctiktok 🔗 Other Links and Channels ✨Scott Moore Consulting: ► https://scottmoore.consulting ⏲ Performance Tour: ► https://theperformancetour.com 🎤SMC Journal Podcast: ► https://smcjournal.com 🏎️DevOps Driving: ► https://devopsdriving.com 🔐The Security Champions: ► https://thesecuritychampions.com 🚀DevPerfOps Foundation: ► https://devperfops.org 🚢PerfCruise: ► https://perfcruise.com…

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Altinity Rocks With Blazing Database Performance 23:28

5 weeks ago23:28

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Let's explore Altinity for blazing fast database performance! Real-time analytics & open source explained. 💰 Sponsors If you are interested in sponsoring my content, contact me directly via email or LinkedIn for more information. email = heyscott @ smcjournal.com (remove spaces around the @) ☕ Want to support the show? Buy Me A Coffee! https://bit.ly/3NadcPK ☕ OR BUY MY COFFEE ► https://bit.ly/503blend 💵 Buy something from my Amazon Store ► https://bit.ly/smcllcamzn 👋 Connect With Me 📫 Newsletter (Subscribe): https://bit.ly/ytmailinglist 🔗 LinkedIn Profile: https://bit.ly/30Eshp7 🔗 LinkedIn Company: https://bit.ly/3kICS9g 𝕏 Twitter/X: https://bit.ly/3HmWF8d 📸 Instagram: https://bit.ly/smcinsta 🎥 TikTok: https://bit.ly/smctiktok…

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Load Testing Insights 2025 8:13

6 weeks ago8:13

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Scott Moore and Jay Akselrud discuss load testing in 2025. Get insights on DevOps and Continuous Testing, missing Skill Sets, and don't miss the "blooper" at the end.

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Limited Views on YouTube? This may be why... 10:15

13 weeks ago10:15

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Why one of my YouTube videos got limited views. I explain how Google Ads flagged a random keyword on my website. 🔥 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 spaces around the @) ☕ Want to support the show? Buy Me A Coffee! https://bit.ly/3NadcPK ☕ OR BUY MY COFFEE ► https://bit.ly/503blend 💵 Buy something from my Amazon Store ► https://bit.ly/smcllcamzn 👋 Connect With Me 📫 Newsletter (Subscribe): https://bit.ly/ytmailinglist 🔗 LinkedIn Profile: https://bit.ly/30Eshp7 🔗 LinkedIn Company: https://bit.ly/3kICS9g 𝕏 Twitter/X: https://bit.ly/3HmWF8d 📸 Instagram: https://bit.ly/smcinsta 🎥 TikTok: https://bit.ly/smctiktok 🔗 Other Links and Channels ✨Scott Moore Consulting: ► https://scottmoore.consulting ⏲ Performance Tour: ► https://theperformancetour.com 🎤SMC Journal Podcast: ► https://smcjournal.com 🏎️DevOps Driving: ► https://devopsdriving.com 🔐The Security Champions: ► https://thesecuritychampions.com 🚀DevPerfOps Foundation: ► https://devperfops.org 🚢PerfCruise: ► https://perfcruise.com 🔗 Resources I Recommend Learn data and AI skills at DataCamp: ► https://datacamp.pxf.io/VxxXdO Note: Affiliate links may be included in this description. I may receive a small commission at no cost to you. Thanks for supporting my channel! 😃…

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Observability as Code with Checkly. Monitor your applications 19:53

14 weeks ago19:53

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Discover how Checkly is transforming software monitoring with "Observability as Code". This approach allows developers to address the challenges of rapidly changing software. 🔥 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 spaces around the @) ☕ Want to support the show? Buy Me A Coffee! https://bit.ly/3NadcPK ☕ OR BUY MY COFFEE ► https://bit.ly/503blend 💵 Buy something from my Amazon Store ► https://bit.ly/smcllcamzn 👋 Connect With Me 📫 Newsletter (Subscribe): https://bit.ly/ytmailinglist 🔗 LinkedIn Profile: https://bit.ly/30Eshp7 🔗 LinkedIn Company: https://bit.ly/3kICS9g 𝕏 Twitter/X: https://bit.ly/3HmWF8d 📸 Instagram: https://bit.ly/smcinsta 🎥 TikTok: https://bit.ly/smctiktok 🔗 Other Links and Channels ✨Scott Moore Consulting: ► https://scottmoore.consulting ⏲ Performance Tour: ► https://theperformancetour.com 🎤SMC Journal Podcast: ► https://smcjournal.com 🏎️DevOps Driving: ► https://devopsdriving.com 🔐The Security Champions: ► https://thesecuritychampions.com 🚀DevPerfOps Foundation: ► https://devperfops.org 🚢PerfCruise: ► https://perfcruise.com 🔗 Resources I Recommend Learn data and AI skills at DataCamp: ► https://datacamp.pxf.io/VxxXdO Note: Affiliate links may be included in this description. I may receive a small commission at no cost to you. Thanks for supporting my channel! 😃…

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Your New AI Co-worker - Agentic AI 29:06

17 weeks ago29:06

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🚀 **Check out this fascinating podcast episode about the transformative potential of Agentic AI!** 🤖 Learn how Agentic AI goes beyond task-based Generative AI, enabling goal-oriented and autonomous action. 🔧 Discover how it predicts system faults, proactively fixes issues, and streamlines IT operations. 💻 See how developers can use AI assistants to generate code and automate development cycles. 🌐 Explore GenTech AI, where systems of collaborating agents achieve organizational goals through automation and swarm intelligence. 🎧 Tune in now to uncover the future of AI and its impact on industries! Plus, check out DataCamp's AI learning track to gain hands-on experience with real-world AI applications. 🔥 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 spaces around the @) ☕ Want to support the show? Buy Me A Coffee! https://bit.ly/3NadcPK ☕ OR BUY MY COFFEE ► https://bit.ly/503blend 💵 Buy something from my Amazon Store ► https://bit.ly/smcllcamzn 👋 Connect With Me 📫 Newsletter (Subscribe): https://bit.ly/ytmailinglist 🔗 LinkedIn Profile: https://bit.ly/30Eshp7 🔗 LinkedIn Company: https://bit.ly/3kICS9g 𝕏 Twitter/X: https://bit.ly/3HmWF8d 📸 Instagram: https://bit.ly/smcinsta 🎥 TikTok: https://bit.ly/smctiktok 🔗 Other Links and Channels ✨Scott Moore Consulting: ► https://scottmoore.consulting ⏲ Performance Tour: ► https://theperformancetour.com 🎤SMC Journal Podcast: ► https://smcjournal.com 🏎️DevOps Driving: ► https://devopsdriving.com 🔐The Security Champions: ► https://thesecuritychampions.com 🚀DevPerfOps Foundation: ► https://devperfops.org 🚢PerfCruise: ► https://perfcruise.com…

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Achieving Cyber Resilience: Expert Insights From LevelBlue 28:20

23 weeks ago28:20

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Strengthen your cyber resilience! Join us as we discuss cyber resilience from a software engineering perspective with cybersecurity expert Teresa Lanowitz. We're talking with respected industry analyst Teresa Lanowitz about her new report on the 2024 Level Blue Futures for Cyber Resilience. With her deep understanding of the software development lifecycle and operational requirements like performance and security, Teresa offers unique insights into building robust and resilient systems. Learn about: ● The importance of cyber resilience in today's threat landscape. ● How to incorporate cyber resilience principles into software engineering practices. ● Practical tips for improving your organization's security posture. Check out the 2024 Futures report at https://bit.ly/levelblue Visit the LevelBlue Website at levelblue.com 😀 For more great content like this check out the SMC Journal at https://smcjournal.com ✉️ Join the mailing list ► https://bit.ly/ytmailinglist…

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Legendary Marketing Secrets For Software Companies 51:20

25 weeks ago51:20

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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 obsession is paramount. It's not just about providing good service; it's about making customer success the driving force behind every decision. ●Don't just be better, be different. Identify unmet needs and create new categories that solve problems in innovative ways. ● Listen to your "super consumers". These highly engaged customers offer invaluable insights that can shape your product development and marketing strategies. 🔥 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 spaces around the @) ✉️ Join my mailing list ► https://bit.ly/ytmailinglist ☕ Want to support the show? Buy Me A Coffee! https://bit.ly/3NadcPK ☕ OR BUY MY COFFEE ► https://bit.ly/503blend 💵 Buy something from my Amazon Store ► https://bit.ly/smcllcamzn 👋 Connect with me TWITTER ► https://bit.ly/3HmWF8d LINKEDIN COMPANY ► https://bit.ly/3kICS9g LINKEDIN PROFILE ► https://bit.ly/30Eshp7 🔗 Other Links and Channels ✨Scott Moore Consulting: ► https://scottmoore.consulting ⏲ Performance Tour: ► https://theperformancetour.com 🎤SMC Journal Podcast: ► https://smcjournal.com 🏎️DevOps Driving: ► https://devopsdriving.com 🔐The Security Champions: ► https://thesecuritychampions.com 🚀DevPerfOps Foundation: ► https://devperfops.org 🚢PerfCruise: ► https://perfcruise.com…

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How I became a performance engineer 21:42

26 weeks ago21:42

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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 spaces around the @) ✉️ Join my mailing list ► https://bit.ly/ytmailinglist ☕ Want to support the show? Buy Me A Coffee! https://bit.ly/3NadcPK ☕ OR BUY MY COFFEE ► https://bit.ly/503blend 💵 Buy something from my Amazon Store ► https://bit.ly/smcllcamzn 👋 Connect with me TWITTER ► https://bit.ly/3HmWF8d LINKEDIN COMPANY ► https://bit.ly/3kICS9g LINKEDIN PROFILE ► https://bit.ly/30Eshp7 🔗 Other Links and Channels ✨Scott Moore Consulting: ► https://scottmoore.consulting ⏲ Performance Tour: ► https://theperformancetour.com 🎤SMC Journal Podcast: ► https://smcjournal.com 🏎️DevOps Driving: ► https://devopsdriving.com 🔐The Security Champions: ► https://thesecuritychampions.com 🚀DevPerfOps Foundation: ► https://devperfops.org 🚢PerfCruise: ► https://perfcruise.com…

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My Insights Switching From Unifi To A Peplink Wireless AP 24:36

28 weeks ago24:36

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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 Wireless AP. As remote work became essential, I saw the limitations of my aging Wi-Fi setup and sought a more reliable solution. I will discuss my experience with Peplink products, highlighting their quality and performance, and explain why others might consider making a similar switch for improved home networking. 🔥 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 spaces around the @) ✉️ Join my mailing list ► https://bit.ly/ytmailinglist ☕ Want to support the show? Buy Me A Coffee! https://bit.ly/3NadcPK ☕ OR BUY MY COFFEE ► https://bit.ly/503blend 💵 Buy something from my Amazon Store ► https://bit.ly/smcllcamzn 👋 Connect with me TWITTER ► https://bit.ly/3HmWF8d LINKEDIN COMPANY ► https://bit.ly/3kICS9g LINKEDIN PROFILE ► https://bit.ly/30Eshp7 🔗 Other Links and Channels ✨Scott Moore Consulting: ► https://scottmoore.consulting ⏲ Performance Tour: ► https://theperformancetour.com 🎤SMC Journal Podcast: ► https://smcjournal.com 🏎️DevOps Driving: ► https://devopsdriving.com 🔐The Security Champions: ► https://thesecuritychampions.com 🚀DevPerfOps Foundation: ► https://devperfops.org 🚢PerfCruise: ► https://perfcruise.com…

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Cloudflare Speed Brain - Improve Your Website Performance For Free 24:23

30 weeks ago24:23

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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 based on client-side cues like mouse hover, downloading the next likely page in the background for instant loading from browser cache. 📊Cloudflare's Real User Measurements (RUM) helps site owners track web vitals like LCP and FID, enabling data-driven decisions to optimize website performance and user experience. 🌐Cloudflare's CDN and Argo Smart Routing work together to reduce latency by caching content globally and routing traffic through optimized internal paths, bypassing internet backbone congestion. 🔮Cloudflare is developing pre-rendering capabilities to render pages in the background, promising even faster load times when combined with existing Early Hints technology for asset preloading. 🔥 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 spaces around the @) ✉️ Join my mailing list ► https://bit.ly/ytmailinglist ☕ Want to support the show? Buy Me A Coffee! https://bit.ly/3NadcPK ☕ OR BUY MY COFFEE ► https://bit.ly/503blend 💵 Buy something from my Amazon Store ► https://bit.ly/smcllcamzn 👋 Connect with me TWITTER ► https://bit.ly/3HmWF8d LINKEDIN COMPANY ► https://bit.ly/3kICS9g LINKEDIN PROFILE ► https://bit.ly/30Eshp7 🔗 Other Links and Channels ✨Scott Moore Consulting: ► https://scottmoore.consulting ⏲ Performance Tour: ► https://theperformancetour.com 🎤SMC Journal Podcast: ► https://smcjournal.com 🏎️DevOps Driving: ► https://devopsdriving.com 🔐The Security Champions: ► https://thesecuritychampions.com 🚀DevPerfOps Foundation: ► https://devperfops.org 🚢PerfCruise: ► https://perfcruise.com…

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The P99 Conference has top performance engineering insights! P99 CONF 17:00

34 weeks ago17:00

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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 at https://bit.ly/P99CONF24 😀 For more great content like this check out the SMC Journal at https://smcjournal.com - this episode is sponsored by ScyllaBD.…

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Scaling Kubernetes, Microservices, and Ephemeral Environments 19:32

39 weeks ago19:32

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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 helps developers figure out if their code is about to blow up before pushing it into production by creating production conditions in their staging environments and local development machines. 🌐 Kubernetes enables teams to build microservice architectures, breaking the monolith into pieces and allowing for individual scaling of each component. 🚀 The ability to make small code changes and quickly push them to production with Kubernetes provides a time to market advantage for companies. 🚀 Speed and scale are key capabilities for teams testing their code in Kubernetes environments, not just for simulating production. 📊 Monitoring data and load testing are crucial for defining the memory and CPU needs of workloads in Kubernetes environments. 🚀 Scaling Kubernetes clusters can be challenging, but innovations like Carpenter can help manage node sizing and resource allocation effectively. 🔍 Using production monitoring data from tools like New Relic and DataDog can help in tuning production and non-production environments for Kubernetes and microservices. 🔮 Mocking out dependencies with one command line tool can revolutionize the development process and improve developer satisfaction. 🔥 Like and Subscribe 🔥 Connect with me 👋 TWITTER ► https://bit.ly/3HmWF8d LINKEDIN COMPANY ► https://bit.ly/3kICS9g LINKEDIN PROFILE ► https://bit.ly/30Eshp7 Want to support the show? Buy Me A Coffee! https://bit.ly/3NadcPK 🔗 Links: Scott Moore Consulting: https://scottmoore.consulting The Performance Tour: https://theperformancetour.com SMC Journal: https://smcjournal.com DevOps Driving: https://devopsdriving.com Security Champions https://thesecuritychampions.com…

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What is DevPerfOps? 28:48

41 weeks ago28:48

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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 interest in DevOps and continuous delivery. 🛠️ DevSecOps ensures security becomes a non-negotiable, so why can't DevPerfOps ensure performance becomes a non-negotiable as well? 💻 DevPerfOps is essential for critical systems that need to be fast, up, resilient, and efficient. 📈 DevPerfOps values working software with optimized performance and prioritizes ongoing optimization as a process, not an afterthought. 🚀 Efficient and performant applications bring a competitive advantage and can make you more money. 📊 Performance is not just a technical problem to solve, it is part of the business imperative and has a real impact on the company's financial and risk perspective. 📊 DevPerfOps emphasizes the importance of speaking in terms of business and proving value through metrics and information to become a valuable asset to the company. 🤔 DevPerfOps should exist for the same reason that DevSecOps exists - to address the shortcomings of dev ops in producing awesome business results.…

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Mastering OpenTelemetry and Observability 18:20

42 weeks ago18:20

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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 🔍 Observability in complex systems is crucial for understanding their behavior and troubleshooting. 📊 Observability is about being able to ask any question about the data collected from applications to determine system behavior, including availability, performance, and even security aspects. 🔍 OpenTelemetry aims to solve the issue of vendor lock-in by providing open source and vendor agnostic instrumentation and data collection. 🧠 The opportunity to give back and contribute something valuable to the community is a driving force behind sharing knowledge and expertise in technology fields. 📊 Focusing on availability and performance is crucial for observability, but understanding latency and performance characteristics can be very environment specific. 💡 OpenTelemetry provides data portability and full control of your data, allowing you to choose what you send, filter, sample, enrich, and redact. 💡 OpenTelemetry is the future, and it's in everyone's best interest to come together and make it the best product we can. 📈 OpenTelemetry's rapid acceptance and growth make it a staple in overall observability strategy for monitoring applications and business performance.…

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Using eBPF for Better Kubernetes Performance 26:15

43 weeks ago26:15

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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 eBPF can help avoid the complexity and issues with sidecars in #Kubernetes, making it ideal for running on container machines. 📊 The best use case for using eBPF is to measure the performance of interconnected microservices in a complicated system, tying it into tools like Jaeger for comprehensive performance analysis. 📊 The struggle with measuring and understanding the performance of #microservices across multiple clusters highlights the need for better performance #monitoring tools. 🌐 eBPF is not just about performance, but also about broader applications such as observability and there are conferences dedicated to it. 🛡 Making decisions at a low level without adding security overhead is a huge advantage in network #performance and security. 🔄 Turning the ship around to prioritize performance requires making #DevOps native and changing the way development has ignored the issue. 🚀 Performance is vital in technology, dropping phone calls is not super cool. 🕰️ The future of #eBPF adoption depends on how quickly it can be made accessible to a broader range of users. #softwareengineering #performanceengineering…

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Optimizing Software Systems - The Art Of Performance Engineering 31:28

1 year ago31:28

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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 and System Performance Engineering: Process, Performance Modeling, Requirements, Testing, Scalability, and Practice" With Scott Moore. Get Andre's Book: https://a.co/d/6VNug9I Video Insights About Performance Engineering 💡 Performance engineering forces you to think about the performance requirements at each layer of a system and how each outer layer drives the load at an inner layer. 📊 You can't look at the average statistics from end to end, you have to look at the ramp up time and whether the system is reaching a steady state. 🎸 Performance engineers should be the rock stars of the company, as they want the same things as the C-level and ensure efficient, cost-effective, and fast software. 🚨 Performance engineering is crucial in mission-critical systems, especially in scenarios like fire alarm systems where quick interventions are necessary. 📊 Many Computer Science graduates lack basic performance engineering knowledge, but it's crucial to being able to identify bottlenecks, understand performance requirements, and equip developers with performance hooks to optimize software systems early on. 💡Find out the different types of scalability and why each are important. 🔥 Like and Subscribe 🔥 Connect with me 👋 TWITTER ► https://bit.ly/3HmWF8d LINKEDIN COMPANY ► https://bit.ly/3kICS9g LINKEDIN PROFILE ► https://bit.ly/30Eshp7 Want to support the show? Buy Me A Coffee! https://bit.ly/3NadcPK 🔗 Links: - Scott Moore Consulting: https://scottmoore.consulting - Perftour Website: https://theperformancetour.com - SMC Journal: https://smcjournal.com - DevOps Driving: https://devopsdriving.com - Security Champions https://thesecuritychampions.com…

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Discover the Peplink B One Multi-WAN Router 10:21

1 year ago10:21

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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. Get one at: https://bit.ly/smcpeplinkb1 and use my code PERFTOUR for an additional 5% off. Insights about the Peplink B One 💰 The Peplink B1 router is a replacement for the popular surf Soho at a very attractive price point of $299. 🚀 The Peplink B One router has the same throughput as the pro series of routers, with one gigabit per second of routing speed. 💡 The Peplink B One Router offers flexibility with multiple LAN and WAN connections, making it future-proof and able to handle high-speed Fusion connections without slowing down. 📶 The advantage of not having an internal Wan modem inside this device is that it's not going to go obsolete as quickly. 🌐 The real value of the Peplink B One router is in the Peplink ecosystem and firmware / software features including Peplink fusion bonding, WAN smoothing, and WAN relay capability. This makes it a versatile and powerful device for home and small office use. 🌐 The ability to combine multiple connections and use load balancing brings a lot of interesting use cases for the Peplink B One Router. 🌐 The B1 router's relay mode allows for secure connection to home network from a van or RV, providing flexibility and convenience for users on the go. 📶 You can add a mobile cellular WAN connection with a Peplink Max Adapter using the USB-C port on the front of the B one, enabling cellular connectivity. Compatible Android and hotspot devices can be used as well. 📶 It has the capability to act as a Wi-Fi access point and can support multiple WAN connections, making it a versatile option for small businesses and home offices. 🔒 When using the Speed Fusion VPN, the device can still achieve up to 400 megabits per second unencrypted, and 200 when encrypted. 🔥 Like and Subscribe 🔥 Connect with me 👋 TWITTER ► https://bit.ly/3HmWF8d LINKEDIN COMPANY ► https://bit.ly/3kICS9g LINKEDIN PROFILE ► https://bit.ly/30Eshp7 Want to support the show? Buy Me A Coffee! https://bit.ly/3NadcPK 🔗 Links: - Scott Moore Consulting: https://scottmoore.consulting - Perftour Website: https://theperformancetour.com - SMC Journal: https://smcjournal.com - DevOps Driving: https://devopsdriving.com - Security Champions https://thesecuritychampions.com…

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Optimizing the Cloud With Performance Engineering 26:07

1 year ago26:07

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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 this interview. Key insights Into Cloud Optimization 🚀 2024 is the year of the performance engineer for multiple reasons, and it's time for them to take a more important role in cloud optimization. 🧠 Let's stop solving these as tactical instances of the problem, making things more complex. Let's solve it a single time by building a layer of technology on top of everything. 🌐 Cloud providers are recognizing the need for multi-cloud optimization and are starting to work together to create a more interconnected ecosystem, rather than pushing for exclusive use of their own cloud services. 📊 The implementation of a formal methodology and process for cost governance in cloud computing is crucial for tracking spending, identifying under-optimized systems, and moving towards an optimized state. 💸 Based on our survey, companies are wasting 80% of resources that could be reallocated to building innovative systems and taking their business to the next level. 💰 Performance engineering presents a big business opportunity for companies who focus on making changes to improve efficiency and savings. 💭 This should be the year of performance engineering. If we want efficiency and reliability and sustainability that everybody wants, we need to do performance engineering. 🤑 The optimization capabilities and performance of cloud services directly impact the bottom line of a business, making it a crucial discussion at the board level. Sponsors This podcast is sponsored by Bryte Payment Solutions. They provide merchant services for a wide variety of credit card companies. Take most major credit cards at the lowest rates and fees possible. They help your business generate higher revenue through a variety of payment solutions, including Point Of Sale equipment and custom software. If you take credit cards for your business, you should contact them to see how they can help. Go to https://bryteps.com/ and tell them Scott Moore sent you.…

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Fluency Security SIEM With Streaming Analytics 18:30

1 year ago18:30

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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 them apart from traditional database-based or data lake-based platforms. 🧩The use of analytical algorithms in security conversations is essential for identifying anomalies and addressing them effectively. 🔒The ability to quarantine a machine on a different network using SIEM is a powerful security feature. 💡The approach of Fluency Security as a SIEM is different from traditional systems, as it focuses on maintaining a state position of every data and entity as it comes in, rather than just storing and searching using SQL queries. 🕰️The difference between streaming and database analytics is like counting people in a room in real-time versus counting them every five to ten minutes, causing delays and potential missed alerts. 🔄Real-time processing of data can actually use less processors, leading to cost savings compared to traditional methods. 🔍Fluency can provide alerts in just three seconds, while other systems take up to 15 minutes to detect infections. Sponsors This podcast is sponsored by Saltworks Security. For almost 10 years, Saltworks Security has delivered world class application security services and products, designed to help enterprises secure their applications from policy to production in an ever-changing security landscape. They are the makers of Saltworks SaltMiner, an application security management platform, designed by security professionals, for security professionals. SaltMiner aggregates and normalizes issues found by many different solutions then enriches that data with business context. SaltMiner gives team members from the C-suite, security and development teams the ability to manage their application security program through customizable views. The Saltworks SaltMiner Community Edition is a free Penetration Testing Management and Delivery application. It provides teams with custom reporting for potentially thousands of end users, red team support and the ability to manage new and retesting of engagements. SaltMiner Community Edition also allows teams to enforce both testing methodologies and custom vulnerability databases for consistency in engagement delivery. https://bit.ly/smcsaltworks This podcast is sponsored by Bryte Payment Solutions. They provide merchant services for a wide variety of credit card companies. Take most major credit cards at the lowest rates and fees possible. They help your business generate higher revenue through a variety of payment solutions, including Point Of Sale equipment and custom software. If you take credit cards for your business, you should contact them to see how they can help. Go to https://bryteps.com/ and tell them Scott Moore sent you. This podcast is sponsored by West Networks. Do you need unbreakable network connectivity? West Networks can help! They are a leading provider of Peplink-based SD-WAN solutions. They can help you achieve unbreakable connectivity by utilizing Peplink’s SpeedFusion Bandwidth Bonding technology. Mobile Health Customers: Since 2012, West Networks has been assisting those in Mobile Health Services space by providing communities with access to life-saving technology. Mobile Command Unit or First Responders: West Networks works with mobile command field units, like First Responders and new agencies, delivering faster and reliable access to mission critical information all the time. Mobile Workers: Whether you’re an IT professional who needs to work from anywhere, or a full-time vacationing traveler in the RV community, West Networks can help you stay connected all the time. For The Enterprise: Large Enterprises can save up to 83% off of costs while expanding communications and reliability beyond a single carrier with West Networks’ Peplink-based SD-WAN solutions. We can help you replace expensive MPLS connections with SpeedFusion Site-to-Site Unbreakable VPN technology. http://bit.ly/westnetworks…

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Peplink Tech Summit 2023 Part 2 18:21

1 year ago18:21

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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 features three interviews with attendees. This is part two of a two part series. Insights Into The Peplink Tech Summit 2023 Conference Peplink offers reliable and efficient networking solutions for businesses, with a focus on certification, product innovation, and community collaboration. People at the Peplink Tech Summit 2023 were excited about the products and networking solutions, and the speaker is grateful for the support and announces upcoming shows for 2024. Peplink Solutions are used for various temporary internet needs, with redundant cellular connections for reliability, and the company provides excellent customer support. 🔥 Like and Subscribe 🔥 Connect with me 👋 TWITTER ► https://bit.ly/3HmWF8d LINKEDIN COMPANY ► https://bit.ly/3kICS9g LINKEDIN PROFILE ► https://bit.ly/30Eshp7 Sponsors This podcast is sponsored by OpenText – the Information Company. We power and protect information. Our purpose is to elevate every person and every organization to gain the information advantage. OpenText works to power the ubiquitous information around us to elevate everyone. We strive to help customers simplify their systems with frictionless automation and equip them to thrive and grow in a digital world. The LoadRunner family is one of many solutions areas where OpenText can help. Did you know that the LoadRunner family has the largest community of load testing practitioners in the world? Join the community at http://bit.ly/435Y5Po Performance Engineering The LoadRunner Family Page: https://www.microfocus.com/en-us/portfolio/performance-engineering/overview Performance Playlist (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlUdEXI83_XoQrAsCj2A92v5AmXqVfoIO This podcast is sponsored by Saltworks Security. For almost 10 years, Saltworks Security has delivered world class application security services and products, designed to help enterprises secure their applications from policy to production in an ever-changing security landscape. They are the makers of Saltworks SaltMiner, an application security management platform, designed by security professionals, for security professionals. SaltMiner aggregates and normalizes issues found by many different solutions then enriches that data with business context. SaltMiner gives team members from the C-suite, security and development teams the ability to manage their application security program through customizable views. The Saltworks SaltMiner Community Edition is a free Penetration Testing Management and Delivery application. It provides teams with custom reporting for potentially thousands of end users, red team support and the ability to manage new and retesting of engagements. SaltMiner Community Edition also allows teams to enforce both testing methodologies and custom vulnerability databases for consistency in engagement delivery. https://bit.ly/smcsaltworks This podcast is sponsored by West Networks. Do you need unbreakable network connectivity? West Networks can help! They are a leading provider of Peplink-based SD-WAN solutions. They can help you achieve unbreakable connectivity by utilizing Peplink’s SpeedFusion Bandwidth Bonding technology. Mobile Health Customers: Since 2012, West Networks has been assisting those in Mobile Health Services space by providing communities with access to life-saving technology. Mobile Command Unit or First Responders: West Networks works with mobile command field units, like First Responders and new agencies, delivering faster and reliable access to mission critical information all the time. Mobile Workers: Whether you’re an IT professional who needs to work from anywhere, or a full-time vacationing traveler in the RV community, West Networks can help you stay connected all the time. For The Enterprise: Large Enterprises can save up to 83% off of costs while expanding communications and reliability beyond a single carrier with West Networks’ Peplink-based SD-WAN solutions. We can help you replace expensive MPLS connections with SpeedFusion Site-to-Site Unbreakable VPN technology. http://bit.ly/westnetworks…

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Peplink Tech Summit 2023 Part 1 13:18

1 year ago13:18

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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 Peplink Tech Summit 🤝 The ability for competitors to come together and co-mingle in the goal of sharing PEPLINK information and making the community bigger is something you don't see anywhere else. 🚀 5G and Starlink are the future of fixed wireless, potentially causing an industry upsetter. 🤑 Peplink Tech Summit 2023 saved one and a half million dollars in six bucks by implementing five MBX HD fours in just three days. Show Notes GUESTS: Peter West - West Networks Marcus Dowling - Rising Connections Chris Spitler - Llama Networks Sponsors This podcast is sponsored by Saltworks Security. For almost 10 years, Saltworks Security has delivered world class application security services and products, designed to help enterprises secure their applications from policy to production in an ever-changing security landscape. They are the makers of Saltworks SaltMiner, an application security management platform, designed by security professionals, for security professionals. SaltMiner aggregates and normalizes issues found by many different solutions then enriches that data with business context. SaltMiner gives team members from the C-suite, security and development teams the ability to manage their application security program through customizable views. The Saltworks SaltMiner Community Edition is a free Penetration Testing Management and Delivery application. It provides teams with custom reporting for potentially thousands of end users, red team support and the ability to manage new and retesting of engagements. SaltMiner Community Edition also allows teams to enforce both testing methodologies and custom vulnerability databases for consistency in engagement delivery. https://bit.ly/smcsaltworks This podcast is sponsored by West Networks. Do you need unbreakable network connectivity? West Networks can help! They are a leading provider of Peplink-based SD-WAN solutions. They can help you achieve unbreakable connectivity by utilizing Peplink’s SpeedFusion Bandwidth Bonding technology. Mobile Health Customers: Since 2012, West Networks has been assisting those in Mobile Health Services space by providing communities with access to life-saving technology. Mobile Command Unit or First Responders: West Networks works with mobile command field units, like First Responders and new agencies, delivering faster and reliable access to mission critical information all the time. Mobile Workers: Whether you're an IT professional who needs to work from anywhere, or a full-time vacationing traveler in the RV community, West Networks can help you stay connected all the time. For The Enterprise: Large Enterprises can save up to 83% off of costs while expanding communications and reliability beyond a single carrier with West Networks' Peplink-based SD-WAN solutions. We can help you replace expensive MPLS connections with SpeedFusion Site-to-Site Unbreakable VPN technology. http://bit.ly/westnetworks…

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Which Database Is The Fastest? 26:17

1 year ago26:17

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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 out how Benchant does it, and which database to choose for your platforms and applications. Show Notes - Database Speeds With Benchant GUEST: Daniel Seybold LINKEDIN PROFILE: h https://benchant.com/ Key insights For Database Benchmarking ⚡️ The database's speed is vital to the overall performance of the system, affecting every other component of the application. 💻 The term "new SQL" was defined by the 451 Research Group in 2015 to refer to distributed SQL systems like CockroachDB and Yugabyte that provide horizontal scalability. 📊 There are significant differences in performance and price performance-wise among different database service offers, making benchmarking crucial for decision-making. 📊 The database choice depends on the specific application needs, such as high write volume and low complex read queries for IoT applications. ⚡️ The performance boost of 50% on a different database system led to the possibility of reducing the number of hardware, providing valuable insights and recommendations to the customer. 🔄 A new category of database systems, like the Vector database, is evolving to keep up with the trends in AI and large language models. 💡 The biggest benefit of AI in databases may not just be performance-related, but also in autotuning and potentially other uses. 📊 Skilling up people and keeping knowledge in-house is crucial for database performance and maintenance. Sponsors This podcast is sponsored by OpenText - the Information Company. We power and protect information. Our purpose is to elevate every person and every organization to gain the information advantage. OpenText works to power the ubiquitous information around us to elevate everyone. We strive to help customers simplify their systems with frictionless automation and equip them to thrive and grow in a digital world. The LoadRunner family is one of many solutions areas where OpenText can help. Did you know that the LoadRunner family has the largest community of load testing practitioners in the world? Join the community at http://bit.ly/435Y5Po Performance Engineering The LoadRunner Family Page: https://www.microfocus.com/en-us/portfolio/performance-engineering/overview Performance Playlist (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlUdEXI83_XoQrAsCj2A92v5AmXqVfoIO This podcast is sponsored by West Networks. Do you need unbreakable network connectivity? West Networks can help! They are a leading provider of Peplink-based SD-WAN solutions. They can help you achieve unbreakable connectivity by utilizing Peplink’s SpeedFusion Bandwidth Bonding technology. Mobile Health Customers: Since 2012, West Networks has been assisting those in Mobile Health Services space by providing communities with access to life-saving technology. Mobile Command Unit or First Responders: West Networks works with mobile command field units, like First Responders and new agencies, delivering faster and reliable access to mission critical information all the time. Mobile Workers: Whether you're an IT professional who needs to work from anywhere, or a full-time vacationing traveler in the RV community, West Networks can help you stay connected all the time. For The Enterprise: Large Enterprises can save up to 83% off of costs while expanding communications and reliability beyond a single carrier with West Networks' Peplink-based SD-WAN solutions. We can help you replace expensive MPLS connections with SpeedFusion Site-to-Site Unbreakable VPN technology. http://bit.ly/westnetworks…

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Load Test Like a Rock Star (Part 2) 18:56

1 year ago18:56

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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 types of load tests, their purpose, and the expected output and value they bring, with the intention of sharing real-life stories and graphs in an engaging and humorous manner. 📈 Best practice suggests that applications should be able to handle double the number of concurrent users they anticipate as their worst-case scenario. 💥 Running a SOAK test or volume test for a long period of time, such as 8-20 hours, can help identify resource consumption and potential problems in production that may take months to discover otherwise. 🤔 Finding and fixing problems early in the testing process is crucial to avoid issues in production. 📈 The speaker mentions catching a top time transaction that is heavy and is expected to worsen as the test ramps up, highlighting the importance of monitoring and addressing performance issues. 🎵 Conducting performance testing and load testing as a repeatable process can help identify issues early in the software development lifecycle and provide significant value to the company. 💡 Providing additional metrics and working with the back-end team to quickly resolve issues found during load testing adds more value to a company than just providing basic metrics and passing the problem along. Here’s another video about load testing fundamentals . 🔥 Like and Subscribe 🔥 Connect with me 👋 TWITTER ► https://bit.ly/3HmWF8d LINKEDIN COMPANY ► https://bit.ly/3kICS9g LINKEDIN PROFILE ► https://bit.ly/30Eshp7 Want to support the show? Buy Me A Coffee! https://bit.ly/3NadcPK 🔗 Links: Scott Moore Consulting: https://scottmoore.consulting Perftour Website: https://theperformancetour.com SMC Journal: https://smcjournal.com DevOps Driving: https://devopsdriving.com Security Champions https://thesecuritychampions.com Sponsors This podcast is sponsored by Saltworks Security. For almost 10 years, Saltworks Security has delivered world class application security services and products, designed to help enterprises secure their applications from policy to production in an ever-changing security landscape. They are the makers of Saltworks SaltMiner, an application security management platform, designed by security professionals, for security professionals. SaltMiner aggregates and normalizes issues found by many different solutions then enriches that data with business context. SaltMiner gives team members from the C-suite, security and development teams the ability to manage their application security program through customizable views. The Saltworks SaltMiner Community Edition is a free Penetration Testing Management and Delivery application. It provides teams with custom reporting for potentially thousands of end users, red team support and the ability to manage new and retesting of engagements. SaltMiner Community Edition also allows teams to enforce both testing methodologies and custom vulnerability databases for consistency in engagement delivery. https://bit.ly/smcsaltworks This podcast is sponsored by West Networks. Do you need unbreakable network connectivity? West Networks can help! They are a leading provider of Peplink-based SD-WAN solutions. They can help you achieve unbreakable connectivity by utilizing Peplink’s SpeedFusion Bandwidth Bonding technology. Mobile Health Customers: Since 2012, West Networks has been assisting those in Mobile Health Services space by providing communities with access to life-saving technology. Mobile Command Unit or First Responders: West Networks works with mobile command field units, like First Responders and new agencies, delivering faster and reliable access to mission critical information all the time. Mobile Workers: Whether you’re an IT professional who needs to work from anywhere, or a full-time vacationing traveler in the RV community, West Networks can help you stay connected all the time. For The Enterprise: Large Enterprises can save up to 83% off of costs while expanding communications and reliability beyond a single carrier with West Networks’ Peplink-based SD-WAN solutions. We can help you replace expensive MPLS connections with SpeedFusion Site-to-Site Unbreakable VPN technology. h ttp://bit.ly/westnetworks…

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Load Test Like a Rock Star (Part 1) 25:29

1 year ago25:29

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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, security, AI, and more.” 🎸 “Load testing like a rockstar: what are those basics that make up the process of load testing an application and then what goes into the types of tests that you run and what type of output should you expect?” 💡 Load testing is a foolproof method that can be applied to any project, regardless of the development approach, and has a track record of preventing production failures. 🎶 A load test is like a symphony of destruction, an organized chaos that helps determine if an application can handle the intended user population. 📋 Focusing on one objective for a load test is crucial to ensure effective testing and accurate results. 💻 Designing automation that takes into account dynamic data, such as filling out forms with different information, can help simulate real-life scenarios and test the back end’s ability to handle varying inputs. 💡 Load testing should start with tuning before running the test to identify and address any potential issues beforehand. 💪 The benchmark test of reaching a thousand concurrent users and holding it for an hour can determine if the system can handle peak load for the rest of the day. Collaboration and Performance Issue Resolution 🕵 Combining load testing timings with infrastructure, application, and database monitoring allows for better identification of performance issues in different tiers of an application. 🔄 Collaborating with professionals from different domains, like database administrators, can be crucial in resolving performance issues discovered during load testing. Here is another podcast on Load Testing . 🔥 Like and Subscribe 🔥 Connect with me 👋 TWITTER ► https://bit.ly/3HmWF8d LINKEDIN COMPANY ► https://bit.ly/3kICS9g LINKEDIN PROFILE ► https://bit.ly/30Eshp7 Want to support the show? Buy Me A Coffee! https://bit.ly/3NadcPK 🔗 Links: Scott Moore Consulting: https://scottmoore.consulting Perftour Website: https://theperformancetour.com SMC Journal: https://smcjournal.com DevOps Driving: https://devopsdriving.com Security Champions https://thesecuritychampions.com Sponsors This podcast is sponsored by OpenText – the Information Company. We power and protect information. Our purpose is to elevate every person and every organization to gain the information advantage. OpenText works to power the ubiquitous information around us to elevate everyone. We strive to help customers simplify their systems with frictionless automation and equip them to thrive and grow in a digital world. The LoadRunner family is one of many solutions areas where OpenText can help. Did you know that the LoadRunner family has the largest community of load testing practitioners in the world? Join the community at http://bit.ly/435Y5Po Performance Engineering The LoadRunner Family Page: https://www.microfocus.com/en-us/portfolio/performance-engineering/overview Performance Playlist (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlUdEXI83_XoQrAsCj2A92v5AmXqVfoIO This podcast is sponsored by West Networks. Do you need unbreakable network connectivity? West Networks can help! They are a leading provider of Peplink-based SD-WAN solutions. They can help you achieve unbreakable connectivity by utilizing Peplink’s SpeedFusion Bandwidth Bonding technology. Mobile Health Customers: Since 2012, West Networks has been assisting those in Mobile Health Services space by providing communities with access to life-saving technology. Mobile Command Unit or First Responders: West Networks works with mobile command field units, like First Responders and new agencies, delivering faster and reliable access to mission critical information all the time. Mobile Workers: Whether you’re an IT professional who needs to work from anywhere, or a full-time vacationing traveler in the RV community, West Networks can help you stay connected all the time. For The Enterprise: Large Enterprises can save up to 83% off of costs while expanding communications and reliability beyond a single carrier with West Networks’ Peplink-based SD-WAN solutions. We can help you replace expensive MPLS connections with SpeedFusion Site-to-Site Unbreakable VPN technology. http://bit.ly/westnetworks…

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Monitoring As Code With Checkly 26:10

1 year ago26:10

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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 LINKEDIN PROFILE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hanneslenke/ Checkly demo (Youtube): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWFH8M_GOBw Video Insights on Monitoring As Code 🤔 The use of Monitoring as Code has the potential to revolutionize synthetic monitoring, allowing for more efficient and scalable monitoring practices. 🚀 “Monitoring as code” is a concept that enables continuous monitoring of APIs and websites using synthetic users, driven by open source technologies like Playwright and JavaScript/TypeScript. 🛒 Synthetic monitoring aims to provide a clear signal of whether a system is running and working from an end user perspective, particularly important for e-commerce companies to ensure their online shops are functioning properly for customers. 🚀 “Monitoring as code enables monitoring to become a team sport, where all configurations, alerts, dashboards, and private locations can be checked into a repository.” 💡 Synthetic monitoring allows for early bug detection before real users experience them, ensuring crucial transactions are tested and catching issues before they become a problem. 🌐 Synthetic monitoring involves instantiating a real browser that runs like a user, allowing for more accurate metrics and insights. 🔄 Monitoring As Code enables users to identify the specific code changes that may have influenced website performance, helping them make informed decisions about rolling back or improving their deployments. 🚀 Checkly aims to go even deeper in synthetic monitoring by adding multi-step API checks and enhanced playwright support, making it easier for various industries to test their systems and improve their monitoring capabilities. 🔥 Like and Subscribe 🔥 Connect with me 👋 TWITTER ► https://bit.ly/3HmWF8d LINKEDIN COMPANY ► https://bit.ly/3kICS9g LINKEDIN PROFILE ► https://bit.ly/30Eshp7 Want to support the show? Buy Me A Coffee! https://bit.ly/3NadcPK 🔗 Links: Scott Moore Consulting: https://scottmoore.consulting Perftour Website: https://theperformancetour.com SMC Journal: https://smcjournal.com DevOps Driving: https://devopsdriving.com Security Champions https://thesecuritychampions.com Sponsors This podcast is sponsored by Saltworks Security. For almost 10 years, Saltworks Security has delivered world class application security services and products, designed to help enterprises secure their applications from policy to production in an ever-changing security landscape. They are the makers of Saltworks SaltMiner, an application security management platform, designed by security professionals, for security professionals. SaltMiner aggregates and normalizes issues found by many different solutions then enriches that data with business context. SaltMiner gives team members from the C-suite, security and development teams the ability to manage their application security program through customizable views. The Saltworks SaltMiner Community Edition is a free Penetration Testing Management and Delivery application. It provides teams with custom reporting for potentially thousands of end users, red team support and the ability to manage new and retesting of engagements. SaltMiner Community Edition also allows teams to enforce both testing methodologies and custom vulnerability databases for consistency in engagement delivery. https://bit.ly/smcsaltworks This podcast is sponsored by West Networks. Do you need unbreakable network connectivity? West Networks can help! They are a leading provider of Peplink-based SD-WAN solutions. They can help you achieve unbreakable connectivity by utilizing Peplink’s SpeedFusion Bandwidth Bonding technology. Mobile Health Customers: Since 2012, West Networks has been assisting those in Mobile Health Services space by providing communities with access to life-saving technology. Mobile Command Unit or First Responders: West Networks works with mobile command field units, like First Responders and new agencies, delivering faster and reliable access to mission critical information all the time. Mobile Workers: Whether you’re an IT professional who needs to work from anywhere, or a full-time vacationing traveler in the RV community, West Networks can help you stay connected all the time. For The Enterprise: Large Enterprises can save up to 83% off of costs while expanding communications and reliability beyond a single carrier with West Networks’ Peplink-based SD-WAN solutions. We can help you replace expensive MPLS connections with SpeedFusion Site-to-Site Unbreakable VPN technology. http://bit.ly/westnetworks…

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Real User Monitoring Metrics The Easy Way 30:27

2 years ago30:27

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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 Gardner, CEO of Request Metrics LINKEDIN PROFILE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/toddhgardner/ https://requestmetrics.com/ https://trackjs.com/ Insights For Real User Monitoring 🌐 Real user monitoring and synthetic monitoring are important tools for monitoring website performance and ensuring a positive user experience. 🌍 Real user monitoring allows website owners to understand the performance of their site across different geographic regions, taking into account factors like latency and other variables that may affect user experience. 🔄 Todd Gardner highlights the importance of listening to customer feedback and adapting the product accordingly, which can lead to a more successful and agile company. ⚡ The emphasis on core web vital scores and page speed as a page rank factor has become a big concern for content publishers and e-commerce sites. 🔥 Like and Subscribe 🔥 Connect with me 👋 TWITTER ► https://bit.ly/3HmWF8d LINKEDIN COMPANY ► https://bit.ly/3kICS9g LINKEDIN PROFILE ► https://bit.ly/30Eshp7 Want to support the show? Buy Me A Coffee! https://bit.ly/3NadcPK 🔗 Links: Scott Moore Consulting: https://scottmoore.consulting Perftour Website: https://theperformancetour.com SMC Journal: https://smcjournal.com DevOps Driving: https://devopsdriving.com Security Champions https://thesecuritychampions.com Sponsors This podcast is sponsored by OpenText – the Information Company. We power and protect information. Our purpose is to elevate every person and every organization to gain the information advantage. OpenText works to power the ubiquitous information around us to elevate everyone. We strive to help customers simplify their systems with frictionless automation and equip them to thrive and grow in a digital world. The LoadRunner family is one of many solutions areas where OpenText can help. Did you know that the LoadRunner family has the largest community of load testing practitioners in the world? Join the community at http://bit.ly/435Y5Po Performance Engineering The LoadRunner Family Page: https://www.microfocus.com/en-us/portfolio/performance-engineering/overview Performance Playlist (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlUdEXI83_XoQrAsCj2A92v5AmXqVfoIO This podcast is sponsored by West Networks. Do you need unbreakable network connectivity? West Networks can help! They are a leading provider of Peplink-based SD-WAN solutions. They can help you achieve unbreakable connectivity by utilizing Peplink’s SpeedFusion Bandwidth Bonding technology. Mobile Health Customers: Since 2012, West Networks has been assisting those in Mobile Health Services space by providing communities with access to life-saving technology. Mobile Command Unit or First Responders: West Networks works with mobile command field units, like First Responders and new agencies, delivering faster and reliable access to mission critical information all the time. Mobile Workers: Whether you’re an IT professional who needs to work from anywhere, or a full-time vacationing traveler in the RV community, West Networks can help you stay connected all the time. For The Enterprise: Large Enterprises can save up to 83% off of costs while expanding communications and reliability beyond a single carrier with West Networks’ Peplink-based SD-WAN solutions. We can help you replace expensive MPLS connections with SpeedFusion Site-to-Site Unbreakable VPN technology. http://bit.ly/westnetworks…

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Open Source Observability 30:20

2 years ago30:20

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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, addressing the issue of tool sprawl and allowing for more efficient data capture. 🤔 Open source products that provide all metrics, traces, and logs in one place can greatly assist developers in debugging and resolving production issues more efficiently. 🌍 Signals is one of the most advanced products that natively supports open telemetry, making it a valuable tool for those looking to utilize open telemetry in their applications. 🚀 The goal of products in this domain is to provide teams with all the data they need in a format that allows them to quickly reach conclusions and fix issues fast. Sponsors This podcast is sponsored by Saltworks Security. For almost 10 years, Saltworks Security has delivered world class application security services and products, designed to help enterprises secure their applications from policy to production in an ever-changing security landscape. They are the makers of Saltworks SaltMiner, an application security management platform, designed by security professionals, for security professionals. SaltMiner aggregates and normalizes issues found by many different solutions then enriches that data with business context. SaltMiner gives team members from the C-suite, security and development teams the ability to manage their application security program through customizable views. The Saltworks SaltMiner Community Edition is a free Penetration Testing Management and Delivery application. It provides teams with custom reporting for potentially thousands of end users, red team support and the ability to manage new and retesting of engagements. SaltMiner Community Edition also allows teams to enforce both testing methodologies and custom vulnerability databases for consistency in engagement delivery. https://bit.ly/smcsaltworks This podcast is sponsored by West Networks. Do you need unbreakable network connectivity? West Networks can help! They are a leading provider of Peplink-based SD-WAN solutions. They can help you achieve unbreakable connectivity by utilizing Peplink’s SpeedFusion Bandwidth Bonding technology. Mobile Health Customers: Since 2012, West Networks has been assisting those in Mobile Health Services space by providing communities with access to life-saving technology. Mobile Command Unit or First Responders: West Networks works with mobile command field units, like First Responders and new agencies, delivering faster and reliable access to mission critical information all the time. Mobile Workers: Whether you’re an IT professional who needs to work from anywhere, or a full-time vacationing traveler in the RV community, West Networks can help you stay connected all the time. For The Enterprise: Large Enterprises can save up to 83% off of costs while expanding communications and reliability beyond a single carrier with West Networks’ Peplink-based SD-WAN solutions. We can help you replace expensive MPLS connections with SpeedFusion Site-to-Site Unbreakable VPN technology. http://bit.ly/westnetworks…

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Get Continuous Performance Profiling Metrics With eBPF 26:39

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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 of using eBPF for isolating and fixing poor performing code, highlighting its potential for improving performance engineering. 🔄 eBPF is uniquely positioned to capture profiling data, making it a valuable addition to tools like Prometheus for performance analysis and optimization. 📊 eBPF allows us to capture stack traces and build statistics in real-time, providing valuable insights into the execution of programs. 💡 eBPF provides a flexible framework for instrumentation, allowing developers to create custom hooks and perform a wide range of tasks, similar to traditional instrumentation methods. 💡 eBPF allows developers to measure various aspects of their code, such as RPC calls and memory allocations, providing flexibility in performance profiling. 💡 eBPF enables observability without instrumentation, automatically capturing latency from specific network packets, such as MySQL queries, offering a new approach to performance profiling. 🤔 The use of eBPF as a technology for building a profiler allows for selective data collection, ensuring that only the necessary data is gathered, reducing unnecessary overhead. 🗣️ Customers have expressed that eBPF is the only way to achieve continuous profiling, highlighting its importance and effectiveness. Show Notes Polar Signals Cloud is an always-on, zero-instrumentation continuous profiling product that points you to where in your code CPU time is spent, and helps you maintain an efficient system in the long run. The product is based on the open-source Parca project and is now generally available! https://www.polarsignals.com/ https://www.parca.dev/docs/overview/ Sponsors This podcast is sponsored by OpenText - the Information Company. We power and protect information. Our purpose is to elevate every person and every organization to gain the information advantage. OpenText works to power the ubiquitous information around us to elevate everyone. We strive to help customers simplify their systems with frictionless automation and equip them to thrive and grow in a digital world. The LoadRunner family is one of many solutions areas where OpenText can help. Did you know that the LoadRunner family has the largest community of load testing practitioners in the world? Join the community at http://bit.ly/435Y5Po This podcast is sponsored by West Networks. Do you need unbreakable network connectivity? West Networks can help! They are a leading provider of Peplink-based SD-WAN solutions. They can help you achieve unbreakable connectivity by utilizing Peplink’s SpeedFusion Bandwidth Bonding technology. Mobile Health Customers: Since 2012, West Networks has been assisting those in Mobile Health Services space by providing communities with access to life-saving technology. Mobile Command Unit or First Responders: West Networks works with mobile command field units, like First Responders and new agencies, delivering faster and reliable access to mission critical information all the time. Mobile Workers: Whether you're an IT professional who needs to work from anywhere, or a full-time vacationing traveler in the RV community, West Networks can help you stay connected all the time. For The Enterprise: Large Enterprises can save up to 83% off of costs while expanding communications and reliability beyond a single carrier with West Networks' Peplink-based SD-WAN solutions. We can help you replace expensive MPLS connections with SpeedFusion Site-to-Site Unbreakable VPN technology. http://bit.ly/westnetworks Connect with me 👋 TWITTER ► https://bit.ly/3HmWF8d LINKEDIN COMPANY ► https://bit.ly/3kICS9g LINKEDIN PROFILE ► https://bit.ly/30Eshp7 Want to support the show? Buy Me A Coffee! https://bit.ly/3NadcPK 🔗 Links: - Scott Moore Consulting: https://scottmoore.consulting - Perftour Website: https://theperformancetour.com - SMC Journal: https://smcjournal.com - DevOps Driving: https://devopsdriving.com - Security Champions https://thesecuritychampions.com…

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See The Future Of Remote Access For Developers 21:33

2 years ago21:33

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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 🔥 Want to support the show? Buy Me A Coffee! https://bit.ly/3NadcPK Show Notes NearEDGE is a solution for managing and troubleshooting compute infrastructure and software assets. It is designed to be secure, reliable, and easy to use. https://nearedge.net/Solution/infrastructure NearEDGE consists of two components: The endpoint component is a lightweight agent that runs on the endpoint device. It is responsible for collecting data about the endpoint and sending it to the control center. The control center is a web-based application that provides a central location for managing and troubleshooting endpoints. NearEDGE is designed to be agnostic to the deployment environment. It can be deployed on any device that has an internet connection, including physical servers, virtual machines, and cloud-based instances. Insights 🎯The future of remote access for developers is a topic of discussion, covering various aspects such as security, AI, testing, tuning, optimization, and observability. 🌐There is a need for a lightweight end point that can facilitate remote access in a zero trust environment, allowing developers to efficiently and effectively access resources. 💻The shift towards software-based solutions has led Near Edge to focus on addressing the challenges faced by developers in remote access and management of physical computers. 🤖The agent software used in remote workloads is extremely CICD friendly, allowing for efficient continuous integration and continuous deployment processes. 💻By intercepting native TCP connections, developers can seamlessly use familiar tools like SSH and VS code to access and operate various workloads. ⚙️ The ability to set breakpoints and debug code in real-time using a debugger enhances the efficiency and effectiveness of the development process. 💻Virtual tapping goes beyond traditional network tapping by allowing developers to interact live with applications inside the container, including profiling and other capabilities. Key Moments 🔮05:32 NearEdge offers a solution called NOAH that allows developers to securely access their software and workloads remotely, reducing the need for extensive deployment involvement. Expand 🔑07:51 Developers can remotely access machines, use tools like VS code and wire shark, and easily find IP addresses without needing to understand the underlying workings by utilizing a gateway for TCP connection transport. Expand 📺11:12 Developers can now debug Python code in containers using VS code without a special agent or VPN, as demonstrated in the video. Expand 🔒13:42 The future of remote access for developers allows for secure and protected data transfer, with control remaining with the infrastructure team and enabling live interaction with applications. Expand 🔒18:01 This solution enables software deployment without internet access by utilizing reverse and forward proxies, allowing for management of the software while restricting traffic to only move through the proxies. Expand 👀19:56 The speaker asks for feedback on whether remote access to software assets in the cloud is the future and encourages viewers to suggest topics for future shows. Sponsors This podcast is sponsored by Saltworks Security. For almost 10 years, Saltworks Security has delivered world class application security services and products, designed to help enterprises secure their applications from policy to production in an ever-changing security landscape. They are the makers of Saltworks SaltMiner, an application security management platform, designed by security professionals, for security professionals. SaltMiner aggregates and normalizes issues found by many different solutions then enriches that data with business context. SaltMiner gives team members from the C-suite, security and development teams the ability to manage their application security program through customizable views. The Saltworks SaltMiner Community Edition is a free Penetration Testing Management and Delivery application. It provides teams with custom reporting for potentially thousands of end users, red team support and the ability to manage new and retesting of engagements. SaltMiner Community Edition also allows teams to enforce both testing methodologies and custom vulnerability databases for consistency in engagement delivery. https://bit.ly/smcsaltworks This podcast is sponsored by West Networks. Do you need unbreakable network connectivity? West Networks can help! They are a leading provider of Peplink-based SD-WAN solutions. They can help you achieve unbreakable connectivity by utilizing Peplink’s SpeedFusion Bandwidth Bonding technology. Mobile Health Customers: Since 2012, West Networks has been assisting those in Mobile Health Services space by providing communities with access to life-saving technology. Mobile Command Unit or First Responders: West Networks works with mobile command field units, like First Responders and new agencies, delivering faster and reliable access to mission critical information all the time. Mobile Workers: Whether you're an IT professional who needs to work from anywhere, or a full-time vacationing traveler in the RV community, West Networks can help you stay connected all the time. For The Enterprise: Large Enterprises can save up to 83% off of costs while expanding communications and reliability beyond a single carrier with West Networks' Peplink-based SD-WAN solutions. We can help you replace expensive MPLS connections with SpeedFusion Site-to-Site Unbreakable VPN technology. http://bit.ly/westnetworks Connect with me 👋 TWITTER ► https://bit.ly/3HmWF8d LINKEDIN COMPANY ► https://bit.ly/3kICS9g LINKEDIN PROFILE ► https://bit.ly/30Eshp7 🔗 Links: Scott Moore Consulting: https://scottmoore.consulting Perftour Website: https://theperformancetour.com SMC Journal: https://smcjournal.com DevOps Driving: https://devopsdriving.com Security Champions https://thesecuritychampions.com…

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Conferences For Performance Engineers 17:03

2 years ago17:03

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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 performance testing. He also calls for the academic community to be more involved in developing new solutions for this emerging field. Insights ☁️ Load testing and performance engineering have become more important as industries move to the cloud, agile development, and continuous deployments. 👁️ Continuous testing and monitoring are essential in this environment. 🧩 There is no one-size-fits-all approach to continuous performance testing, as it requires new methods, statistical analysis, and AI. 🎓 The academic community needs to be more involved in developing new solutions for continuous performance testing. 🗓️ There are a few academic conferences devoted to performance, but they are not enough. 🔥 Like and Subscribe 🔥 Connect with me 👋 TWITTER ► https://bit.ly/3HmWF8d LINKEDIN COMPANY ► https://bit.ly/3kICS9g LINKEDIN PROFILE ► https://bit.ly/30Eshp7 Want to support the show? Buy Me A Coffee! https://bit.ly/3NadcPK 🔗 Links: - Scott Moore Consulting: https://scottmoore.consulting - Perftour Website: https://theperformancetour.com - SMC Journal: https://smcjournal.com - DevOps Driving: https://devopsdriving.com - Security Champions https://thesecuritychampions.com Sponsors This podcast is sponsored by OpenText - the Information Company. We power and protect information. Our purpose is to elevate every person and every organization to gain the information advantage. OpenText works to power the ubiquitous information around us to elevate everyone. We strive to help customers simplify their systems with frictionless automation and equip them to thrive and grow in a digital world. The LoadRunner family is one of many solutions areas where OpenText can help. Did you know that the LoadRunner family has the largest community of load testing practitioners in the world? Join the community at http://bit.ly/435Y5Po This podcast is sponsored by West Networks. Do you need unbreakable network connectivity? West Networks can help! They are a leading provider of Peplink-based SD-WAN solutions. They can help you achieve unbreakable connectivity by utilizing Peplink’s SpeedFusion Bandwidth Bonding technology. **Mobile Health Customers:** Since 2012, West Networks has been assisting those in Mobile Health Services space by providing communities with access to life-saving technology. **Mobile Command Unit or First Responders:** West Networks works with mobile command field units, like First Responders and new agencies, delivering faster and reliable access to mission critical information all the time. **Mobile Workers:** Whether you're an IT professional who needs to work from anywhere, or a full-time vacationing traveler in the RV community, West Networks can help you stay connected all the time. **For The Enterprise:** Large Enterprises can save up to 83% off of costs while expanding communications and reliability beyond a single carrier with West Networks' Peplink-based SD-WAN solutions. We can help you replace expensive MPLS connections with SpeedFusion Site-to-Site Unbreakable VPN technology. http://bit.ly/westnetworks…

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Get A Career In DevSecOps 27:47

2 years ago27:47

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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/smcjournalcoffee Show Notes GUEST: Tim Chase LINKEDIN PROFILE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/timchase2/ Security Classes by Tim Chase on LinkedIn: DevSecOps Foundations: https://www.linkedin.com/learning/devops-foundations-devsecops The rise of continuous application security: https://www.linkedin.com/learning/devsecops-continuous-application-security/the-rise-of-continuous-application-security Latest Blog from the Cloud Security Alliance: https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/blog/2023/08/22/new-research-suggests-unseen-benefits-of-devsecops/ Sponsors This podcast is sponsored by Saltworks Security. For almost 10 years, Saltworks Security has delivered world class application security services and products, designed to help enterprises secure their applications from policy to production in an ever-changing security landscape. They are the makers of Saltworks SaltMiner, an application security management platform, designed by security professionals, for security professionals. SaltMiner aggregates and normalizes issues found by many different solutions then enriches that data with business context. SaltMiner gives team members from the C-suite, security and development teams the ability to manage their application security program through customizable views. The Saltworks SaltMiner Community Edition is a free Penetration Testing Management and Delivery application. It provides teams with custom reporting for potentially thousands of end users, red team support and the ability to manage new and retesting of engagements. SaltMiner Community Edition also allows teams to enforce both testing methodologies and custom vulnerability databases for consistency in engagement delivery. https://bit.ly/smcsaltworks…

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Get This JMeter Plugin 20:38

2 years ago20:38

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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/kuba-dering/ Show Notes JMeter Throughput Shaping Timer plugin: https://jmeter-plugins.org/wiki/ThroughputShapingTimer/ Jakub's Track Talk at AutomationSTAR: https://automation.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/event/2023/performance-testing-you-didnt-know-your-automation-test-does/ Sponsors This podcast is sponsored by OpenText - the Information Company. We power and protect information. Our purpose is to elevate every person and every organization to gain the information advantage. OpenText works to power the ubiquitous information around us to elevate everyone. We strive to help customers simplify their systems with frictionless automation and equip them to thrive and grow in a digital world. The LoadRunner family is one of many solutions areas where OpenText can help. Did you know that the LoadRunner family has the largest community of load testing practitioners in the world? Join the community at http://bit.ly/435Y5Po Performance Engineering The LoadRunner Family Page: https://www.microfocus.com/en-us/portfolio/performance-engineering/overview Performance Playlist (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlUdEXI83_XoQrAsCj2A92v5AmXqVfoIO…

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Learn How To Scale Kubernetes 19:57

2 years ago19:57

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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 Kubernetes to 7500 Nodes: https://openai.com/research/scaling-kubernetes-to-7500-nodes Sponsors This podcast is sponsored by Saltworks Security. For almost 10 years, Saltworks Security has delivered world class application security services and products, designed to help enterprises secure their applications from policy to production in an ever-changing security landscape. They are the makers of Saltworks SaltMiner, an application security management platform, designed by security professionals, for security professionals. SaltMiner aggregates and normalizes issues found by many different solutions then enriches that data with business context. SaltMiner gives team members from the C-suite, security and development teams the ability to manage their application security program through customizable views. The Saltworks SaltMiner Community Edition is a free Penetration Testing Management and Delivery application. It provides teams with custom reporting for potentially thousands of end users, red team support and the ability to manage new and retesting of engagements. SaltMiner Community Edition also allows teams to enforce both testing methodologies and custom vulnerability databases for consistency in engagement delivery. https://bit.ly/smcsaltworks…

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Implement Service Virtualization Into DevOps Today 21:16

2 years ago21:16

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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/ Show Notes Speedscale Service Mocking https://docs.speedscale.com/concepts/service_mocking/ Wiremock https://wiremock.org/ OpenText Service Virtualization https://www.microfocus.com/en-us/products/service-virtualization/overview Sponsors This podcast is sponsored by OpenText - the Information Company. We power and protect information. Our purpose is to elevate every person and every organization to gain the information advantage. OpenText works to power the ubiquitous information around us to elevate everyone. We strive to help customers simplify their systems with frictionless automation and equip them to thrive and grow in a digital world. The LoadRunner family is one of many solutions areas where OpenText can help. Did you know that the LoadRunner family has the largest community of load testing practitioners in the world? Join the community at http://bit.ly/435Y5Po Performance Engineering The LoadRunner Family Page: https://www.microfocus.com/en-us/portfolio/performance-engineering/overview Performance Playlist (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlUdEXI83_XoQrAsCj2A92v5AmXqVfoIO…

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Blackhat and Defcon 2023 Coverage 15:37

2 years ago15:37

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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 is sponsored by Saltworks Security. For almost 10 years, Saltworks Security has delivered world class application security services and products, designed to help enterprises secure their applications from policy to production in an ever-changing security landscape. They are the makers of Saltworks SaltMiner, an application security management platform, designed by security professionals, for security professionals. SaltMiner aggregates and normalizes issues found by many different solutions then enriches that data with business context. SaltMiner gives team members from the C-suite, security and development teams the ability to manage their application security program through customizable views. The Saltworks SaltMiner Community Edition is a free Penetration Testing Management and Delivery application. It provides teams with custom reporting for potentially thousands of end users, red team support and the ability to manage new and retesting of engagements. SaltMiner Community Edition also allows teams to enforce both testing methodologies and custom vulnerability databases for consistency in engagement delivery. https://bit.ly/smcsaltworks…

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AI Driven End-To-End Automated Testing 26:59

2 years ago26:59

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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/smcjournalcoffee GUEST: Harry Rao LINKEDIN PROFILE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harryceotestgrid/ Show Notes Testgrid: https://testgrid.io/ Sponsors This podcast is sponsored by OpenText - the Information Company. We power and protect information. Our purpose is to elevate every person and every organization to gain the information advantage. OpenText works to power the ubiquitous information around us to elevate everyone. We strive to help customers simplify their systems with frictionless automation and equip them to thrive and grow in a digital world. The LoadRunner family is one of many solutions areas where OpenText can help. Did you know that the LoadRunner family has the largest community of load testing practitioners in the world? Join the community at http://bit.ly/435Y5Po Performance Engineering The LoadRunner Family Page: https://www.microfocus.com/en-us/portfolio/performance-engineering/overview…

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Performance Budgets 30:44

2 years ago30:44

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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 Notes Tammy Everts Website: https://tammyeverts.wordpress.com/ Performance budgets - https://www.speedcurve.com/blog/performance-budgets/ Performance budgets, pragmatically - https://csswizardry.com/2020/01/performance-budgets-pragmatically/ Page bloat - https://www.speedcurve.com/blog/page-bloat-web-performance/ Performance inequality gap - https://infrequently.org/2022/12/performance-baseline-2023/ Performance plateau - https://www.speedcurve.com/blog/web-performance-poverty-line/ WPOstats - https://wpostats.com/ Sponsors This podcast is sponsored by Saltworks Security. For almost 10 years, Saltworks Security has delivered world class application security services and products, designed to help enterprises secure their applications from policy to production in an ever-changing security landscape. They are the makers of Saltworks Saltminer, an application security management platform, designed by security professionals, for security professionals. SaltMiner aggregates and normalizes issues found by many different solutions then enriches that data with business context. SaltMiner gives team members from the C-suite, security and development teams the ability to manage their application security program through customizable views. The Saltworks SaltMiner Community Edition is a free Penetration Testing Management and Delivery application. It provides teams with custom reporting for potentially thousands of end users, red team support and the ability to manage new and retesting of engagements. SaltMiner Community Edition also allows teams to enforce both testing methodologies and custom vulnerability databases for consistency in engagement delivery. https://bit.ly/smcsaltworks…

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SteadyBit and LoadRunner 20:52

2 years ago20:52

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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.microfocus.com/lr/en/2023/help/WebHelp/Content/Controller/event_scenarios.htm Sponsors This podcast is sponsored by OpenText - the Information Company. We power and protect information. Our purpose is to elevate every person and every organization to gain the information advantage. OpenText works to power the ubiquitous information around us to elevate everyone. We strive to help customers simplify their systems with frictionless automation and equip them to thrive and grow in a digital world. The LoadRunner family is one of many solutions areas where OpenText can help. Did you know that the LoadRunner family has the largest community of load testing practitioners in the world? Join the community at http://bit.ly/435Y5Po Performance Engineering The LoadRunner Family Page: https://www.microfocus.com/en-us/portfolio/performance-engineering/overview Performance Playlist (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlUdEXI83_XoQrAsCj2A92v5AmXqVfoIO…

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Application Security Posture Management 28:01

2 years ago28:01

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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: https://bit.ly/smcjournalcoffee GUEST: Dennis Hurst LINKEDIN PROFILE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dennishurst/ Show Notes ASPM Overview: https://medium.com/technology-hits/application-security-posture-management-an-overview-895d86d8129d What is Application Security Posture Management? https://www.enso.security/what-is-application-security-posture-management Saltworks SaltMiner: https://www.saltworks.io/saltminer/ Sponsors This podcast is sponsored by Saltworks Security. For almost 10 years, Saltworks Security has delivered world class application security services and products, designed to help enterprises secure their applications from policy to production in an ever-changing security landscape. They are the makers of Saltworks SaltMiner, an application security management platform, designed by security professionals, for security professionals. SaltMiner aggregates and normalizes issues found by many different solutions then enriches that data with business context. SaltMiner gives team members from the C-suite, security and development teams the ability to manage their application security program through customizable views. The Saltworks SaltMiner Community Edition is a free Penetration Testing Management and Delivery application. It provides teams with custom reporting for potentially thousands of end users, red team support and the ability to manage new and retesting of engagements. SaltMiner Community Edition also allows teams to enforce both testing methodologies and custom vulnerability databases for consistency in engagement delivery. https://bit.ly/smcsaltworks…

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What’s new in the LoadRunner Family 2023 32:17

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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 https://admhelp.microfocus.com/lr/en/2023/help/WebHelp/Content/Resources/_TopNav/_TopNav_Home.htm Sponsors This podcast is sponsored by OpenText - the Information Company. We power and protect information. Our purpose is to elevate every person and every organization to gain the information advantage. OpenText works to power the ubiquitous information around us to elevate everyone. We strive to help customers simplify their systems with frictionless automation and equip them to thrive and grow in a digital world. The LoadRunner family is one of many solutions areas where OpenText can help. Did you know that the LoadRunner family has the largest community of load testing practitioners in the world? Join the community at http://bit.ly/435Y5Po Performance Engineering The LoadRunner Family Page: https://www.microfocus.com/en-us/portfolio/performance-engineering/overview…

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Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) 26:28

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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://kadiska.com/try Sponsors This podcast is sponsored by Saltworks Security. For almost 10 years, Saltworks Security has delivered world class application security services and products, designed to help enterprises secure their applications from policy to production in an ever-changing security landscape. They are the makers of Saltworks Saltminer, an application security management platform, designed by security professionals, for security professionals. SaltMiner aggregates and normalizes issues found by many different solutions then enriches that data with business context. SaltMiner gives team members from the C-suite, security and development teams the ability to manage their application security program through customizable views. The Saltworks SaltMiner Community Edition is a free Penetration Testing Management and Delivery application. It provides teams with custom reporting for potentially thousands of end users, red team support and the ability to manage new and retesting of engagements. SaltMiner Community Edition also allows teams to enforce both testing methodologies and custom vulnerability databases for consistency in engagement delivery. https://bit.ly/smcsaltworks…

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TestMU Conference 2023 19:32

2 years ago19:32

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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 Conference Site: https://www.lambdatest.com/testmuconf-2023 LambdaTest Site https://www.lambdatest.com/ Sponsors This podcast is sponsored by Saltworks Security. For almost 10 years, Saltworks Security has delivered world class application security services and products, designed to help enterprises secure their applications from policy to production in an ever-changing security landscape. They are the makers of Saltworks Saltminer, an application security management platform, designed by security professionals, for security professionals. SaltMiner aggregates and normalizes issues found by many different solutions then enriches that data with business context. SaltMiner gives team members from the C-suite, security and development teams the ability to manage their application security program through customizable views. The Saltworks SaltMiner Community Edition is a free Penetration Testing Management anams to enforce both testing methodologies and custom vulnerability databases for consistency in engagement delivery. https://bit.ly/smcsaltworks…

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The Impact of AI on Observability 40:48

2 years ago40:48