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Can You Automate Application Reliability?
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.
What is Digital Experience Monitoring?
What is Digital Experience Monitoring? Scott Moore and Mehdi Daoudi, CEO of Catchpoint Systems cut through the confusion.
2023 Predictions For Systems Engineering
2023 Systems Engineering Predictions and Trends for Cloud, DevOps, Observability, Performance Engineering, Security, and more
Episode 105: SMC Journal 2022 Year In Review
The Year in Review for the SMC Journal, and Performance Engineering everywhere in 2022.
Episode 103: End-To-End Tests With OpenTelemetry and TraceTest
Tracetest is a tool that allows you to quickly create end-to-end tests via a simple User Interface. It is the first visual tool that allows users to build and run integration and E2E tests against any system that is instrumented with OpenTelemetry
Episode 102: Open Source Database Performance With Percona
David Stokes from Percona talks about common pitfalls that people fall into when implementing open source databases like MySQL, PostGreSQL, and MongoDB. He also mentions several key things you can do to keep these databases running at peak performance.
Classic Episodes
Blackhat and Defcon 2023 Coverage
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.
Secure Your Business With Fluency’s Streaming Analytics SIEM
Fluency Security’s real-time analytics and unique approach to SEIM sets them apart from traditional security platforms, allowing for faster detection and response to security threats.
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.
SDET or SRE? How about SLE? Performance Rant Alerts!
Discussing segmentation and specialization in the market. This includes titles and what people do, as well as how tool vendors specialize to meet the needs of these roles.
Eliminating Blind Spots to Achieve Application Resilience
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.
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.
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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