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Episode 095: Performance Engineering Solutions with Ryan Foulk
Scott Moore interviews Ryan Foulk, founder of Foulk Consulting. They discuss performance testing solutions and how performance engineering is changing over time.
Episode 094: KubeCon 2022: Summary Overview
Scott shares his thoughts on the KubeCon 2022 conference held in Detroit.
Episode 093: KubeCon 2022: Dynatrace and Keptn
Dynatrace has released the new Keptn Lifecycle Toolkit. Scott interviews Thomas Schuetz at Kubecon 2022 in Detroit.
Episode 092: KubeCon 2022: Akamas
At KubeCon 2022, Scott Moore interviews the CEO and CTO of Akamas about their impressions of the conference and how their solution helps attendees with automated AI tuning and optimization of their Kubernetes deployed applications.
Episode 091: KubeCon 2022: Keysight Technologies and Instana
At KubeCon 2022,Scott Interviews Josh Lee to find out his impressions of the conference. He also interviews Jonathon Wright about the themes, takeaways, and what’s being learned at this event.
Episode 090: KubeCon 2022: DevOps, GitOps, and Performance with Viktor Farcic
Scott Moore interviews Victor Farcic, host of the well-known YouTube channel “The DevOps Toolkit”. They discuss what part performance plays in the minds of those in the DevOp, GitOps, and Kubernetes realm. The need for specialization with performance and the myth of the full-stack “anything” is covered.
Classic Episodes
Cloudflare Speed Brain: Your Web Pages 45% Faster – For Free
Cloudflare Speed Brain makes websites load up to 45% faster by prefetching content using the Speculation Rules API. It prefetches content from Cloudflare’s cache based on user interaction, leading to faster page loads and a better user experience.
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.
eBPF Profiling: The Best Developer Observability Insights
Discover how eBPF profiling is transforming developer observability by providing real-time insights into application performance. Learn about the benefits of continuous profiling, its advantages over traditional methods, and explore open-source solutions like Parka that empower developers to optimize their code efficiently.
Episode 047: LoadRunner and Gremlin For Chaos Testing
David McLeish from Micro Focus shares information about the integration of LoadRunner with Gremlin to provide chaos and resiliency testing while under load.
What is Digital Experience Monitoring?
What is Digital Experience Monitoring? Scott Moore and Mehdi Daoudi, CEO of Catchpoint Systems cut through the confusion.
Episode 061: 2022 Observability Market Study
Scott discusses the 10 Key Takeaways from the DEJ 2022 Observability Market Study
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.












