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Application Security Posture Management
What is Application Security Posture Management (ASPM)? A new category by Gartner that describes an approach to managing application security throughout the lifecycle. It helps organizations identify, prioritize, and remediate vulnerabilities, comply with regulations and reduce the risk of data breache
What’s new in the LoadRunner Family 2023
LoadRunner 2023 R1 is out. Scott Moore interviews product marketing manager David McLeish to get details about the new product features and updates.
Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM)
Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) is a defined category by Gartner to address the true user experience. Are there visibility gaps left open by traditional APM and Observability platforms.
Generative AI And Observability: Huge Impacts Beyond 2024
Discover how AI and Observability are transforming application monitoring. Learn about the challenges, benefits, and the future of AI-driven insights.
Load Testing Apache Kafka With LoadRunner
Load testing Apache Kafka with the LoadRunner Kafka Protocol. What does it look like? Watch a demo of the protocol in action on this episode
Continuous Benchmarking With Bencher
Bencher is a tool made to detect and prevent performance regressions before they make it to production, benchmarking within a continuous integration pipeline. Scott Moore interviews the founder, Everett Pompeii in this episode.
Classic Episodes
Performance Engineering for Decision Makers
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?
Episode 076: Tricentis NeoLoad 9: Browser Based Load Testing
Scott Moore speaks with Bryan Cole about the new release of NeoLoad, which now has Browser-based load testing virtual users (RealBrowser) as well as many other major feature updates. They also talk about upcoming performance events like the Performance Advisory Board (PAC) (October 2022) and the Performance Tour Meetup in Atlanta (09/29/2022).
Mastering OpenTelemetry and Observability
“Mastering OpenTelemetry and Observability” is a new book by Steve Flanders. Observability in complex systems is crucial, and OpenTelemetry helps troublshoot system behavior.
Upgrading To An 80TB Synology NAS
Scott Moore upgrades his home lab hardware, discusses limitations of previous storage, and shares experience with the Synology 1823xs+ NAS.
What’s new in the LoadRunner Family 2023
LoadRunner 2023 R1 is out. Scott Moore interviews product marketing manager David McLeish to get details about the new product features and updates.
Is AIOps the Answer to IT’s Biggest Problem?
Scott talks with Heath Newburn (PagerDuty) about how we can go beyond the hype and buzzwords and find out where the real usefulness is within AIOps for improving performance and reliability.
About SMC Journal
The SMC Journal is a podcast about all things related to Software and Systems Engineering, DevOps, Observability, Performance, Cloud Computing, Security, AI, and much more. The show covers news events, company profiles (mergers and acquisitions), corporate events, vendor software features and updates, and much more.
Content includes commentary and demonstrations by Scott Moore and his guests. Join him as he interviews industry experts, company representatives and hosts lively discussions with the performance community.
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