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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 006: Google Lighthouse 9 and User Flows
Episode #006: Google Lighthouse 9 and User Flows Air Date: 01/20/2022 8:00 a.m. EST https://www.youtube.com/embed/pxoeECj_zFM What's New In DevTools (Chrome 98): https://developer.chrome.com/blog/new-in-devtools-98/ What's new in Lighthouse 9.0:...
Episode 005: Speedtest Tools Comparisons
Episode #005: Speedtest Tools Comparisons Air Date: 01/18/2022 8:00 a.m. EST https://www.youtube.com/embed/N-qChRI6PB4 Let’s take a look at the various speed test tools: Google: Search “internet speed test”. This is run by M-Lab:...
Episode 004: Performance and the State of AI
Episode #004: Performance and the State of AI Air Date: 01/13/2022 8:00 a.m. EST https://www.youtube.com/embed/wDbgc-7irnI Akamas: https://www.akamas.io/ Tricentis just dropped a bombshell in a new report about the state of Artificial Intelligence. And that’s...
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)?
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.
Classic Episodes
Mastering OpenTelemetry and Observability
“Mastering OpenTelemetry and Observability” is a new book by Steve Flanders. Observability in complex systems is crucial, and OpenTelemetry helps troublshoot system behavior.
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.
Application Security Posture Management
What is Application Security Posture Management (ASPM)? A new category by Gartner that describes an approach to managing application security throughout the lifecycle. It helps organizations identify, prioritize, and remediate vulnerabilities, comply with regulations and reduce the risk of data breache
Episode 006: Google Lighthouse 9 and User Flows
Episode #006: Google Lighthouse 9 and User Flows Air Date: 01/20/2022 8:00 a.m. EST https://www.youtube.com/embed/pxoeECj_zFM What's New In DevTools (Chrome 98): https://developer.chrome.com/blog/new-in-devtools-98/ What's new in Lighthouse 9.0:...
Episode 089: KubeCon 2022: LitmusChaos
Scott Moore interviews Uma Mukkara, of LitmusChaos (now part of Harness). They discuss how chaos engineering is being received at KubeCon 2022. How and when should a company begin introducing the chaos concepts into their organization? Find out in this episode.
Episode 041: How to SELL performance testing
Scott speaks with Brian Copeland about how to “sell” performance testing to internal and external clients, helping them see the value of performance testing to their organization.
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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.











