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Optimizing Software Systems
Optimizing Software Systems: The Art Of Performance Engineering. Performance engineering is crucial for ensuring efficient, cost-effective, and fast software.
Boost Your Synology Backup Game With An External USB Drive!
Create a 3-2-1 backup system with Synology NAS and an external USB drive for critical files. Boost Your Synology backup game by adding a USB drive. Here’s my experience with an unboxing and setup of the hardware and software.
Upgrading To An 80TB Synology NAS
Scott Moore upgrades his home lab hardware, discusses limitations of previous storage, and shares experience with the Synology 1823xs+ NAS.
Discover the Peplink B One Multi-WAN Router. Review, Unboxing and DISCOUNT CODE
The Peplink B One packs some Enterprise features into the firmware along with multi-WAN capabilities, that makes it a step above other wireless AP routers in its class. You can pick one up at buypeplink.com and use my code PERFTOUR for an additional 5% off.
Optimizing the Cloud With Performance Engineering
Companies are wasting up to 80% of resources that could be reallocated. Performance engineering is crucial for optimizing cloud services and make digital transformation successful. David Linthicum, chief cloud architect at Deloitte, discusses its importance in this interview.
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.
Classic Episodes
Grab This Essential JMeter Plugin Now!
The Throughput Shaping Timer JMeter plugin makes it easy to crate a test scenario that will produce a desired number of requests per second (RPS). Scott interviews the creator of this plugin.
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
Claude AI Computer Use: Amazing For Performance Engineers?
Discover how the Claude AI computer use feature empowers non-technical users to conduct complex website performance analysis effortlessly. Learn about its cost-effectiveness, practical applications, and the future of AI in tech.
Monitoring As Code With Checkly
Monitoring as code could be the future of synthetic monitoring, allowing for continuous monitoring of APIs and websites through automation scripts and configurations stored in a repository, making it a collaborative effort in a DevOps culture.
Episode 014: Dynatrace’s Open-Source Initiatives: Keptn and Monaco
Air Date: 02/15/2022 08:00 am. EST https://www.youtube.com/embed/5ZIrsZvSZW4 Guest: Henrik Rexed (Dynatrace) https://twitter.com/hrexed?lang=en https://rexed-henrik.medium.com/ https://twitter.com/IsitObservable https://www.youtube.com/c/IsitObservable Show Notes: Why...
Episode 048: Load testing Kubernetes With Traffic Replay
Why traffic replay at scale is a great option for load testing Kubernetes deployed applications.
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.












