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DDOS Attacks and BOT Mitigation
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.
Building a Proxmox Server: The Efficient Home Lab
Build A Proxmox Server For Your Home Lab that is silent and power efficient, the way a performance engineer would.
OpenTelemetry Profiling: A Game Changer for Observability?
OpenTelemetry Profiling is coming soon to help round out what is possible with OpenTelemetry instrumentation. Josh Lee from Instana dives into the details.
Security Testing With SaltMiner
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.
What’s New In LoadRunner 2023?
Guest David McLeish shares all the new features and updates of LoadRunner 2023. We also talk about why the footprint in browser-based protocols like TruClient are so large.
Real User Monitoring For Amazing Website Performance
How does Real User Monitoring metrics provide? How important is a high score in Google Lighthouse to website performance?
Classic Episodes
LoadRunner Best Practices (Free Guides)
Scott shares his LoadRunner Best Practices (Free Guides) from his website. These are for LoadRunner users to help them get started with load testing projects.
Episode 043: PeopleSoft Performance Testing with PSTuners
Scott Interviews Gautam Patel of PSTuners. They discuss testing and tuning PeopleSoft and load testing in general.
Prometheus: The New Monitoring Standard?
Is Prometheus the new monitoring standard? Let’s take a look at the impact on performance testing and monitoring in general.
Limited Views on YouTube: How I Fixed It!
Why are my YouTube views so low?! I uncovered a bizarre Google Ads filter that caused limited views on YouTube. Find out what happened!
Episode 014: Dynatrace’s Open-Source Initiatives: Keptn and Monaco
Air Date: 02/15/2022 08:00 am. EST https://www.youtube.com/embed/5ZIrsZvSZW4 Guest: Henrik Rexed (Dynatrace) https://twitter.com/hrexed?lang=en https://rexed-henrik.medium.com/ https://twitter.com/IsitObservable https://www.youtube.com/c/IsitObservable Show Notes: Why...
Episode 020: Top Network Performance Issues For 2022
What are the 3 most common performance issues in 2022 around the network?
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.












