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The SMC Journal is a weekly podcast about all things related to Software Engineering, DevOps, Observability, Cloud Computing, Security, AI, and much more. The show covers news events, company profiles (mergers and acquisitions), corporate events, vendor software features and updates, and much more.

Content includes commentary and demonstrations by Scott Moore and his guests. Join him as he interviews industry experts, company representatives and hosts lively discussions with the performance community.

This episode explores the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence in software, with a focus on how software engineering professionals and QA can keep pace. We discuss the quality of software generated by AI tools, and how to adapt mindsets to these new tech trends.

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In this episode, Scott Moore interviews Stephane Landelle, CTO of Gatling. They talk about the new Gatling Studio and the problems it solves for both developers and performance engineers.

Find out more at https://gatling.io

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How can AI drive performance engineering and testing? This episode explores five significant shifts in the landscape, providing insights into the impact of artificial intelligence on software testing. Discover how automation testing and performance monitoring tools are evolving, making the untestable, testable, with machine learning approaches.

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Host Scott Moore dives into the world of AI in performance testing, exploring how tools like Tricentis NeoLoad, BlazeMeter, and OpenText are leveraging predictive analytics, generative AI, and agentic AI to transform the field. But is the hype real? Moore offers a balanced perspective, urging us to embrace AI’s potential while staying grounded in expertise and validation.

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The P99 Conference is a must-attend event that dives deep into the art and science of building and scaling high-performance systems.

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In this episode, we are exploring the concept of context engineering and its potential to bring back discipline to software development in the age of vibe coding. Could context engineering bring back some needed discipline for better software outcomes?

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MCP servers everywhere in tech feeds these days, and while it's becoming a crucial part of AI agents communicating with software and utilizing their services to perform powerful tasks. On today's show we talk about how much the MCP Server phenomena is impacting the developer experience. My gues is Ricky Robinett from Cloudflare.

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Are your load testing efforts falling short? In this episode of the SMC Journal, I give you five big reasons why load testing doesn't work for many organizations based on my 30+ years of consulting experience in performance engineering. Just me talking directly to you.

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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.

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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.

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Let's explore Altinity for blazing fast database performance! Real-time analytics & open source explained.

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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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Discover how Checkly is transforming software monitoring with "Observability as Code". This approach allows developers to address the challenges of rapidly changing software.

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🚀 Check out this fascinating podcast episode about the transformative potential of Agentic AI!

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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.

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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.

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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/

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Why I switched from Ubiquiti to Peplink Wireless APs for better Wi-Fi performance.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

"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.

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

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.

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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.

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The Peplink B One offers advanced features and capabilities for improved connectivity and redundancy, making it a valuable investment for home office users who need resilient Internet connections.

It packs some Enterprise features into the firmware along with multi-WAN capabilities. That makes it a step above other wireless AP routers in its class.

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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.

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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.

SponsorsThis 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.

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.

SponsorsThis 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.

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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.

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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 ConferencePeplink 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.

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SponsorsThis 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.

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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.

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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

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 BenchantGUEST: Daniel Seybold
LINKEDIN PROFILE: hhttps://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.

SponsorsThis 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

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.

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SponsorsThis 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

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.

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SponsorsThis 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.

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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.

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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.

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Show NotesGUEST: 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.

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SponsorsThis 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.

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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.

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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.

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Show NotesGUEST: 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.

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SponsorsThis 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

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.

SponsorsThis 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.

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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

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.

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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 NotesPolar 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/

SponsorsThis 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.

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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
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Show NotesNearEDGE 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.

SponsorsThis 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.

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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.

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SponsorsThis 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

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.

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Show NotesGUEST: 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/

SponsorsThis 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

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 NotesJMeter 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/

SponsorsThis 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

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 NotesGUEST: 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

SponsorsThis 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

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 NotesSpeedscale 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

SponsorsThis 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

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

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.

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GUEST: Harry Rao
LINKEDIN PROFILE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harryceotestgrid/

Show NotesTestgrid: https://testgrid.io/

SponsorsThis 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 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.

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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

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

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.

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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

LoadRunner 2023 R1 is out. Scott Moore interviews product manager David McLeish to get details about the new product features and updates.

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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

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

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

Observability platforms are announcing integrations with OpenAI ChatGPT. How will AI affect the future of these products and what new features can we expect? Guest: David Tattersall, CEO of Intergral FusionReactor

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Show Notes

GUEST: David Tattersall

Intergal FusionReactor has added OpsPilot AI, an integration with Chat GPT-4

OpsPilot AI Press Release Langchain

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:

Performance Playlist (YouTube)

Load testing Apache Kafka with the LoadRunner Kafka Protocol. What does it look like? Watch a demo of the protocol in action on this episode.

Show Notes What is Apache Kafka? A software platform built for event streaming. What is event streaming? Think of it as a central nervous system for all of your applications to communicate. It captures data in real-time from many sources as events, and allows for later retrieval, manipulation, processing, or reacting from other systems. Netflix, Uber, LinkedIn and many of the Fortune 500 are using Kafka. There are many use cases, but they all require high availability and low latency . If there ever was a use case for load testing, this is the one. So how do we approach load testing?

YouTube video - "Apache Kafka in 5 minutes" YouTube video - "Apache Kafka in 6 Minutes" Apache Kafka documentation LoadRunner Kafka protocol LoadRunner Kafka test

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:

Performance Playlist (YouTube):

Bencher is a tool made to detect and prevent performance regressions before they make it to production, used within a continuous integration pipeline. Scott Moore interviews the founder, Everett Pompeii in this episode.

Show Notes Site: https://bencher.dev

GitHub: https://github.com/bencherdev/bencher

Prior benchmarking efforts: https://bencher.dev/docs/reference/prior-art

Sponsors This podcast is sponsored by Micro Focus and LoadRunner solutions. Performance matters. Did you know that LoadRunner solutions have the largest community of practitioners? 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

Ransomware attacks are on the rise and have increased by almost 50% in the last year. How can companies mitigate this threat and lower the severity of impact on their business? Ron Foster from Saltworks Security walks us through it.

Show Notes Thales 2023 Report on Ransomware: https://www.thalesgroup.com/en/worldwide/security/press_release/2023-thales-data-threat-report-reveals-increase-ransomware-attacks

https://www.blackfog.com/why-are-ransomware-attacks-on-the-rise/

7 Steps to Mitigate: https://www.cisecurity.org/insights/blog/7-steps-to-help-prevent-limit-the-impact-of-ransomware

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

Several Observability vendors have made announcements about integrating generative AI into their product. Scott reviews and breaks down what it means in this episode.

Show Notes

Recent announcements covered in this episode

Honeycomb taps into chatGPT with Query Assistant: https://siliconangle.com/2023/05/03/honeycomb-introduces-generative-ai-query-tool-observability-platform/

https://devops.com/honeycomb-taps-chatgpt-to-simplify-observability/

New Relic introduces Grok, a generative AI assistant:

https://siliconangle.com/2023/03/15/new-relic-brings-instant-observability-openais-gpt-3/

https://siliconangle.com/2023/05/02/new-relic-debuts-grok-generative-ai-assistant-observability-operations/

https://venturebeat.com/ai/new-relic-launches-grok-generative-ai-assistant/

Elastic Elasticsearch Relevance Engine Will Fuel Generative AI Models

https://www.techdemand.io/news/tech-news/artificial-intelligence-news/elastics-elasticsearch-relevance-engine-will-fuel-generative-ai-models/

Dynatrace Causal AI

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevemcdowell/2023/02/19/dynatrace-blends-ai-automation---observability-with-new-offerings/?sh=6a5fb6757fe7

https://www.dynatrace.com/news/blog/productivity-innovation-with-chatgpt-generative-ai/

Datadog

https://investors.datadoghq.com/news-releases/news-release-details/datadog-integrates-openai-chatgpt-help-organizations-monitor-ai

Sponsors

This podcast is sponsored by Micro Focus and LoadRunner solutions. Performance matters. Did you know that LoadRunner solutions have the largest community of practitioners? Join the community at http://bit.ly/435Y5Po

What value does the test results provide performance engineer versus a decision maker? Why should you use Cost as a quality gate to control the efficiency of applications?

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Show NotesGUEST: Joey Hendricks, Senior Performance Engineer
LINKEDIN PROFILE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joey-hendricks/

Scott interviews Joey Hendricks on using statistics and raw load test data to create visualizations and reports that make it easier for management and decision makers to understand.

Managers are usually focused more on cost. This is why cost should be a quality gate to control the application efficiency as well as performance.

Joey's Github page: https://github.com/JoeyHendricks

SponsorsThis 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

What does continuous performance within modern software development look like in a DevOps world? Scott interviews Lee Barnes for insights.

For a video version of this episode: https://youtu.be/upgccupN3NA

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Show NotesLee Barnes Twitter: @USI_LeeBarnes
Forte Group: Fortegrp.com

GUEST: Lee Barnes, Chief Quality Officer at Forte Group
LINKEDIN PROFILE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leebarnes/

Continuous Performance presentation at Inflectracon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ffotEzYYkc

SponsorsThis podcast is sponsored by Micro Focus and LoadRunner solutions. Performance matters. Did you know that LoadRunner solutions have the largest community of practitioners? 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

Find out about why software RAID isn't fast enough for the latest NVMe storage advancements, and how GRAID Technology is making SSD fast enough to keep up with the CPU.

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For a video version of this episode: https://youtu.be/UtV75W4j0Yg

Show NotesWhitepaper: Performance Comparison o

RAID 5 Solutions for PCIe Gen 5 NVMe SSDs:
https://www.graidtech.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Graid-Technology-PCIe-Gen-5-NVMe-White-Paper_2023-04-17-FINAL.pdf

GRAID Technology: https://www.graidtech.com/

GUEST: Kelley Osburn, Senior Director, GRAID Technology
LINKEDIN PROFILE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kelleyosburn/

SponsorsThis 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

Demonstrating LoadRunner Developer and how to use it within a standard IDE like VS Code to produce low level load testing of new features, with the testing executed by the developers. Scott comments on the value of shifting left and shows that many of the statements about LoadRunner not being viable for developers is untrue.

Additional links to check out as referenced in this episode:

LRD Overview: https://youtu.be/5kmJbhN0za8
Running LoadRunner in Jenkins (CI): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bS0DAwh6vM
LRD Support for Microsoft Azure Devops: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoXUzAxPYj8
LoadRunner Developer Academy: https://www.youtube.com/@loadrunnerdeveloperacademy9025

SponsorsThis podcast is sponsored by Micro Focus and LoadRunner solutions. Performance matters. Did you know that LoadRunner solutions have the largest community of practitioners? 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

For a video version of this episode: https://youtu.be/uQRUog9tqn4

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DDOS attacks are on the rise. In this episode, we discuss the types of attacks and how to create a mitigation strategy against bad BOTS. Ron Foster from Saltworks Security shares how to identify and mitigate these kinds of attacks.

For a video version of this episode: https://youtu.be/0GdURRSP_6E

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Show NotesOn March 8th, a complex DDOS attack affected both Datadog, Catchpoint, and WebPageTest
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35075616

Netscout finds DDoS attacks have jumped almost sixfold since 2019
https://siliconangle.com/2023/04/04/netscout-finds-ddos-attacks-increase-487-since-2019/

DDoS Mitigation: The Definitive Buyer’s Guide
https://www.imperva.com/learn/ddos/ddos-mitigation-services/

SponsorsThis 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

How does a performance engineer approach building a high performance virtualization server on a budget?

For a video version of this podcast: https://www.youtube.com/embed/6CpEn1mOYBk

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Show NotesScott Moore builds his own virtualization server. Parts used:

Supermicro M11SDV-8C-LN4F
iStarUSA Group D-214-MATX
SAMSUNG 990 PRO NVME 1TB Drive
Crucial RAM 32GB (4 of these to make 128GB of RAM)
Supermicro SSD-DM032-SMCMVN1 32GB SATA DOM
Noctua NF-A8 PWM
Antec NeoECO Gold Zen Series NE500G Zen Power Supply
Noctua 60x25mm NF-A6x25

Total Cost = $1,758.11

SponsorsThis podcast is sponsored by Micro Focus and LoadRunner solutions. Performance matters. Did you know that LoadRunner solutions have the largest community of practitioners? 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

The latest information in software engineering, including new product releases, acquisition, and news items centered around performance testing, observability, AIOps, and more.

For a video version of this episode: https://youtu.be/KIGjIm4mSds

HPE to acquire OpsRamp AIOps Platform:

https://devops.com/hpe-to-acquire-opsramp-to-gain-aiops-platform/

Smartbear Acquires Aspecto:

https://smartbear.com/news/news-releases/smartbear-acquires-opentelemetry-pioneer-aspecto/

Grafana Labs Acquires Pyroscope:

https://devops.com/grafana-labs-acquires-pyroscope-to-add-code-profiling-capability/

Honeycomb Secures $50M in Funding:

https://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/Honeycomb-Secures-50M-in-Funding-Round-to-Boost-its-Observability-Platform-158037.aspx

LoadRunner Releases new version:

https://community.microfocus.com/adtd/b/sws-alm/posts/loadrunner-professional-2023-has-now-been-released

Wordpress 6.2 Gets a Performance Bump:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LroIJoYz-O9CpfJzaiKYYMWJ7GbE5RZoW1rf1R4FqyA/edit#gid=0

Is there a 4th Pillar to Observability?

https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2023/04/03/2639758/0/en/Rookout-Makes-Snapshots-the-Fourth-Pillar-of-Observability-Capturing-Deep-Code-Level-Insights-for-Developers.html

New Relic To Integrate with ChatGPT:

https://devops.com/new-relic-bets-on-ai-to-advance-observability/

SponsorsThis 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

Profiles are an exciting new data type in OpenTelemetry coming soon to help round out what is possible with OpenTelemetry instrumentation. Josh Lee from Instana dives into the details.

Episode: 120
Air Date: 04/18/2023
Title: Opentelemetry Profiling
GUEST: Josh Lee (Instana)
LINKEDIN PROFILE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshuamlee/

For a video version of this episode: https://youtu.be/eU_CIi4jd0w

Support the SMC Journal. Buy Me A Coffee: https://bit.ly/smcjournalcoffee

Show NotesJosh Lee’s presentation at CMG Impact 2023:

https://www.cmg.org/2023/02/hey-nice-profile-the-future-of-profiling-in-opentelemetry/

Check out this other podcast with Josh Lee.

SponsorsThis podcast is sponsored by Micro Focus and LoadRunner solutions. Performance matters. Did you know that LoadRunner solutions have the largest community of practitioners? Join the community at https://community.microfocus.com/adtd/b/sws-alm

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

Scott Moore interviews the Founder of Saltworks Security about their new SaltMiner Community Edition software, and how they help security testers in a DevOps world handle CI pipelines.

For a video version of this podcast: https://www.youtube.com/embed/has7ALblTAc

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Show NotesSaltworks Security helps security teams build automated security scans into their DevOps pipelines. They have just released a new version of their SaltMiner Community Edition product. It is a free Penetration Testing Management and Delivery application. Scott Moore interviews the Founder and President Dennis Hurst. They discuss how security teams and performance engineers confront some of the same issues shifting left, and how to implement CI/CD at companies that are at various levels of maturity.

SponsorsThis podcast is sponsored by Saltworks Security. For almost 10 years, Saltworks 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 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

James Pulley and Brian Bernknopf share big news about a company acquisition that affects the performance engineering community as a whole.

Episode: 118
Air Date: 04/04/2023
Title: Big News For Performance Engineers Globally
GUEST: James Pulley
LINKEDIN PROFILE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jameslpulley3/

For a video version of this episode: https://www.youtube.com/embed/0VT8rTMKsXA

Support the SMC Journal. Buy Me A Coffee: https://bit.ly/smcjournalcoffee

Show NotesALTEN Acquires QA Consultants, Bringing Independent Software Quality Engineering Capabilities to its Services Portfolio
https://qaconsultants.com/news/alten-acquires-qa-consultants/

The Performance Tour Live Event in Austin on 04/25/223

https://bit.ly/perftouraustin23

Check out this other video with James Pulley.

SponsorsThis podcast is sponsored by Micro Focus and LoadRunner solutions. Performance matters. Did you know that LoadRunner solutions have the largest community of practitioners? Join the community at https://community.microfocus.com/adtd/b/sws-alm

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

Parallel is a new SaaS load testing solution. What makes it different from other load testing products?

Episode: 117
Air Date: 03/28/2023
Title: Load testing with Parallel
GUEST: Yev Spektor
LINKEDIN PROFILE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yevgeniyspektor/

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Show NotesScott Moore interviews Yev Spektor, the founder of Parallel

https://www.prl.dev/

Topics covered:Tell me about you and your background as it relates to load testing?
What drove you to starting Parallel?
Who is Parallel for - which persona (developer, perf tester, software engineers, non-technical users)?
Explain briefly how the product works (demo)
The real value in any load testing product is in the test results and analysis as this is what should lead you to the underlying reason for performance bottlenecks. What does Parallel provide in the way of analysis and how does it help to locate and pinpoint performance issues?
What is the vision for the product (roadmap)?

Guest David McLeish shares all the new features and updates of LoadRunner 2023.

Episode: 116
Air Date: 03/21/2023
Title: What's New With LoadRunner 2023
GUEST: David McLeish
LINKEDIN PROFILE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-mcleish-58a9b62/

To see this episode in video format: https://youtu.be/3w32Mc5HqSk

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Show NotesThe latest features and updates. They include

Virtual User Days (Flex Users) are back
Citrix Protocol Updates
Steadybit integration for additional resilience platforms
Updates to Prometheus integration (HTTPS)

We also talk about why the footprint in browser-based protocols like TruClient are so large.

SponsorsThis podcast is sponsored by Micro Focus and Opentext. Performance matters. Did you know that Opentext has the largest community of practitioners? Join the community at https://community.microfocus.com/adtd/b/sws-alm

Performance Engineering Page:

https://www.microfocus.com/en-us/portfolio/performance-engineering/overview

Performance Playlist (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlUdEXI83_XoQrAsCj2A92v5AmXqVfoIO

How does Real User Monitoring metrics provide? How important is a high score in Google Lighthouse to website performance?

Episode: 115Air Date: 03/14/2023Title: Real User Monitoring and Website PerformanceGUEST: Erwin HofmanLINKEDIN PROFILE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erwinhofman/

For a video version of this episode: https://smcjournal.com/episode/real-user-monitoring-and-website-performance/

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Show Notes

Website: https://www.rumvision.com/Erwin Hofman: https://www.erwinhofman.com/

Learn the value of combining load testing and resilience experiments with LoadRunner and Gremlin, and where the product is going next.

Episode: 114 Air Date: 03/07/2023 Title: Load Testing and Chaos Engineering Integration GUEST: Jeff Ni LINKEDIN PROFILE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffnickoloff/

For a video version of this episode: https://smcjournal.com/episode/loadrunner-gremlin-integration/

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Show NotesGet started: https://www.gremlin.com/pricing/?ref=nav

Integration news: https://www.gremlin.com/blog/the-dual-approach-in-scaling-chaos-engineering-and-performance-engineering/

Check out this other episode on with Micro Focus.

SponsorsThis podcast is sponsored by Micro Focus and LoadRunner solutions. Performance matters. Did you know that LoadRunner solutions have the largest community of practitioners? Join the community at https://community.microfocus.com/adtd/b/sws-alm

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

How does the video games industry test software? How do you automate test cases for video game engines? Find out with our guest Shane Evans from Gamedriver.

Episode: 113Air Date: 02/28/2023Title: Test Automation In Video Games With GamedriverGUEST: Shane EvansLINKEDIN PROFILE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/neoevans/

For a video version of this episode: https://smcjournal.com/episode/test-automation-in-video-games-with-gamedriver/

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Show NotesWebsite: https://gamedriver.io/GDC Conference: https://www.gamedriver.io/blog/posts/2022/march/gamedriver-is-going-to-the-game-developers-conference/

Check out this podcast on 2023 Predictions for Systems Engineering.

SponsorsThis 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.

What is Cilium? What is eBPF? How does Cilium improve Kubernetes? Scott Moore talks to Bill Mulligan at Isovalent about what makes Cilium a better choice for network traffic shaping, queuing, and observability than native K8s implementations.

Episode: 112Air Date: 02/23/2023Title: How Does Cilium Improve K8s Performance?GUEST: Bill MulliganLINKEDIN PROFILE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bamulligan/

For a video version of this episode: https://smcjournal.com/episode/how-does-isovalent-cilium-improve-k8s-performance/

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Show NotesIsovalent: https://isovalent.com/Cilium: https://cilium.io/

Performance Testing Cilium Blogs:

https://cilium.io/blog/2023/01/25/hetzner-performance-testing/https://cilium.io/blog/2022/04/12/cilium-standalone-L4LB-XDP/https://cilium.io/blog/2021/05/11/cni-benchmark/

Hubble: https://github.com/cilium/hubbleIs It Observable: https://isitobservable.io/observability/service-mesh/what-are-cilium-hubble

Check out this previous podcast about our Kubecon 2022 Takeaways!

SponsorsThis podcast is sponsored by Micro Focus and LoadRunner solutions. Performance matters. Did you know that LoadRunner solutions have the largest community of practitioners? Join the community at https://community.microfocus.com/adtd/b/sws-alm

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

Groundcover is a new Observability platform that uses eBPF to provide for metrics, logs, and traces. Is it the next big thing? Scott Moore interviews Co-founder and CEO Shahar Azulay on this episide.

Episode: 111Air Date: 02/14/2023Title: Next Generation Observability With GroundcoverGUEST: Shahar AzulayLINKEDIN PROFILE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shahar-azulay-54156bb4/

For a video version of this episode: https://youtu.be/W0-ap680wZE

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Show Noteshttps://www.forbes.com/sites/janakirammsv/2023/01/09/meet-groundcoverthe-startup-thats-building-the-next-gen-observability-stack/?sh=b585fb5780cd

Main Website: https://www.groundcover.com/

Caretta: https://github.com/groundcover-com/caretta

Check out this other podcast episode about observability platforms.

SponsorsThis 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.

The Gartner® Innovation Insight for Performance Engineering Report

Episode: 110Air Date: 02/07/2023Title: The Gartner® Performance Engineering Report

For a video version of this episode: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ulaxkS4v2EQ

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Show NotesScott Moore reviews the 2023 Gartner® Innovation Insight for Performance Engineering ReportBy Joachim Herschmann, Keith Guttridge, Thomas Murphy

Register / Download URL: https://bit.ly/3iR6vri

Takeaways:

There is STILL a gross lack of performance engineering skills in the industry. Companies must invest in their team to educate them and skill them up to tackle hard problems
Developers can’t always address the performance issues
Performance testing can’t always address performance issues and tools alone are not the answer
Continuous Performance is the only way to go forward in todays modern application development lifecycle
Gartner now acknowledges performance engineering exists. Now can we start sitting at the big boy table? We should be the CIO’s best friend. We want what they want: Fast, Resilient, Efficient (low cost), and Low Risk. Why aren’t we the rock stars instead of the developers?

“Performance efficiency is one of the most critical operational characteristics of applications that directly reflect software quality and ensure positive user experiences.”

SponsorsThis podcast is sponsored by Micro Focus and LoadRunner solutions. Performance matters. Did you know that LoadRunner solutions have the largest community of practitioners? Join the community at https://community.microfocus.com/adtd/b/sws-alm

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

In software engineering, what is the balance performance and security? Do you have to choose one over the other? Is highly secure software slower? Ron Foster from Saltworks Security is on this episode to discuss this topic.

Episode: 109Air Date: 01/31/2023Title: Software Engineering. Performance or Security?GUEST: Ron Foster. Client Principal, SaltworksLINKEDIN PROFILE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rfoster/

For a video version of this episode: https://youtu.be/HPXNu_onX9A

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Show NotesSaltworks: https://www.saltworks.io/

Video demoing MFA automation with TruClient in WebInspect:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3hH7J_TFZk

How can you automate Application Reliability?

Episode: 108Air Date: 01/24/2023Title: Can You Automate Application Reliability?GUEST: Harjot Gill. Co-founder and CEO of FluxNinjaLINKEDIN PROFILE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harjotsgill/

How can you automate a response to a sudden spike in load? Can you prepare ahead of time for a point load situation like Black Friday? Aperture is an open source flow control and site reliability management platform from FluxNinja developed to address this problem. Scott Moore interviews Harjot Gill of FluxNinja to talk about how they solve this with flow control.

“Aperture detects service-level objective (SLO) violations and deploys active counter-measures such as concurrency limits to protect against cascading failures.”

https://www.fluxninja.com/

Github Repository: https://github.com/fluxninja/aperture

Techcrunch Article: https://techcrunch.com/sponsor/fluxninja/fluxninja-announces-aperture-bringing-reliability-to-your-web-scale-apps-with-flow-control/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEl4SMo3KNo (short video explaining Aperture)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m070bAvrDHM – Demo video

For the video version of this episode: https://youtu.be/zfxY6-Tfazk

SponsorsThis podcast is sponsored by Micro Focus and LoadRunner solutions. Performance matters. Did you know that LoadRunner solutions have the largest community of practitioners? Join the community at https://community.microfocus.com/adtd/b/sws-alm

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

What is Digital Experience Monitoring and how does it help IT organizations?

Episode: 107
Air Date: 01/17/2023
Title: 2023 Trends for Systems Engineers
Guest: Mehdi Daoudi, CEO Catchpoint. https://www.linkedin.com/in/mdaoudi/

A new Gartner IT category defined by Gartner to address user experience, human or machine, across every dependency, whether network or service, inside or outside your company. DEM connects IT initiatives to business outcomes such as revenue and customer satisfaction by focusing on overall visibility into the whole “digital experience”.

For the Video version of this episode: https://youtu.be/ekAZJvohGN0

Gartner Referencehttps://www.gartner.com/en/documents/4014122

Catchpointhttps://www.catchpoint.com/ – “Digital Experience Observability”

Lakeside Softwarehttps://www.lakesidesoftware.com/digital-experience-monitoring-what-it-why/

Cloudflare Enters The Digital Experience spaceCloudflare just announced they are getting into the space

and HERE.

Here is the waitlist for this new service.