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LoadRunner Gremlin Integration
Learn the value of combining load testing and resilience experiments with LoadRunner and Gremlin, and where Gremlin is taking their product next.
Test Automation In Video Games With Gamedriver
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.
Improve Kubernetes Performance With eBPF
What is eBPF and how does it improve Kubernetes performance? Scott Moore talks to Bill Mulligan at Isovalent about why eBPF is a better choice for network traffic shaping, queuing, and observability than native K8s implementations.
Groundcover Observability: Next Generation APM For Kubernetes
Groundcover Observability uses eBPF for metrics, logs, and traces. Scott Moore interviews CEO Shahar Azulay on this episode.
The Gartner® Performance Engineering Report
Scott Moore reviews the 2023 Gartner® Innovation Insight for Performance Engineering Report
Software Engineering: Performance or Security?
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 is on this episode to discuss this topic.
Classic Episodes
Episode 007: Open Telemetry Deep Dive!
Episode #007 Air Date: 01/25/2022 08:00 am EST https://www.youtube.com/embed/tss3jH9aFBg SHOW NOTES: Steve Flanders is a Director of Engineering at Splunk responsible for Observability “Getting Data In”, which includes contributions to the CNCF OpenTelemetry...
Episode 043: PeopleSoft Performance Testing with PSTuners
Scott Interviews Gautam Patel of PSTuners. They discuss testing and tuning PeopleSoft and load testing in general.
SteadyBit and LoadRunner
Scott Moore interviews the CEO of SteadyBit about the LoadRunner integration that provides chaos and resilience testing features to load testing scenarios.
How Performance Budgets Make Your Website Screaming Fast!Performance Budgets
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.
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?
The Gartner® Performance Engineering Report
Scott Moore reviews the 2023 Gartner® Innovation Insight for Performance Engineering Report
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.











