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Scaling Kubernetes (k8s) For Amazing Cost Savings and Efficiency
Speedscale founder Ken Ahrens discusses the challenges of scaling Kubernetes in a microservices and containerized environment
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What is DevPerfops?
What is DevPerfOps? It’s is a crucial concept in software engineering, emphasizing the integration of performance engineering into DevOps.
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.
eBPF Performance Monitoring Makes Kubernetes Better
eBPF is a powerful tool for improving performance in Kubernetes and microservices, providing real-time analysis and management, but its complexity may be a barrier for some developers.
Become The Ultimate Presales Engineer
Brian Copeland of Solutionment shares insights into his latest Book, “The Ultimate Solutioneer” about the common pitfalls that can cause a presales engineer and their organizations to fall short of expectations.
Classic Episodes
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.
OpenTelemetry Profiling: A Game Changer for Observability?
OpenTelemetry Profiling is coming soon to help round out what is possible with OpenTelemetry instrumentation. Josh Lee from Instana dives into the details.
Episode 076: Tricentis NeoLoad 9: Browser Based Load Testing
Scott Moore speaks with Bryan Cole about the new release of NeoLoad, which now has Browser-based load testing virtual users (RealBrowser) as well as many other major feature updates. They also talk about upcoming performance events like the Performance Advisory Board (PAC) (October 2022) and the Performance Tour Meetup in Atlanta (09/29/2022).
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 066: Digital Twin Technology with guest Jonathon Wright (Keysight Technologies) – Part 2 of 2
Digital Twins: What is it and how does it apply to performance? part 2 of 2
Episode 021: LoadRunner Product Roadmap for 2022
What’s New with LoadRunner? What I learned at the LoadRunner Family Virtual Forum. You can access the replay here:
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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.












