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Software Lifecycle Engineer: The Best Role For Performance Engineering?
Scott Moore introduces the Software Lifecycle Engineer (SLE). How is it different from the Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET), or the Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)? Is it even worth considering as a new title?
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.
How Altinity Enhances The Value of ClickHouse®
In this episode of the SMC Journal show, we talk to the CEO of Altinity about how they add value to ClickHouse implementations for enterprise users and the future of this fast growing segment of the industry.
Helpful Load Testing Insights For 2025
Load testing in 2025 continues to be a critical aspect of software development and performance engineering.
Bonded Cellular Network Speed with a Peplink HD4 is Amazing
Check out the power of bonded cellular modems with the Peplink HD4 MBX and see the results of a real-world speed test.
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!
Classic Episodes
Episode 062: 5 Reasons Performance Testing Sucks
Scott shares five reasons why performance testing is not effective in organizations when they are out of balance or do not communicate between teams very well.
Episode 042: One-click Load Testing With Supervisor
Scott speaks with Lauri Kasti about Supervisor, and Lauri takes the viewers through a demo.
Google Core Web Vitals and Website Performance: 3 Important Insights.
Google Core Web Vitals and website performance. What do they mean and why do we care?
The SMC Journal: Awesome Software Engineering
The SMC Journal is your new source for information about software engineering, performance, observability, AI, testing, security, and anything related to IT.
Azure Load Testing: Performance Engineer Reacts!
Is Azure Load Testing a revolutionary new product for performance engineers? Is it a replacement for the now deprecated Visual Studio Team Edition with Load Testing (VSTS)?
Episode 056: Observability Platforms 2022 – Part 2 of 3
Scott shares his thoughts around the Observability market for 2022. Datadog, Honeycomb.io, and Instana are discussed.
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.












