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Real User Monitoring Metrics The Easy Way
Real user monitoring is a crucial tool for improving website performance. Learn about Request Metrics, a simple platform, and how it can help improve your site today!
Open Source Observability: A Free DataDog Killer?
Open source observability is a cost-effective and community-driven alternative to commercial platforms, but is this platform a Datadog killer?
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.
Conferences For Performance Engineers
Continuous performance engineering and testing, as well as attending conferences, are crucial for performance engineers to stay updated on industry trends and advancements in order to improve efficiency and create resilient systems.
Get A Career In DevSecOps
Want to move your career into the DevSecOps space? Are you wondering what it takes to get a job Cybersecurity or where to start? Scott Moore interviews Tim Chase – Field CISO at Lacework about this very topic and how he switched over from performance engineering to security testing.
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.
Classic Episodes
How Performance Budgets Make Your Website Screaming Fast!Performance Budgets
Performance budgets are an important control mechanism to keep web applications fast and efficient. Tammy Everts shares how to set them up and apply the latest practices for great results.
DDOS Attacks and BOT Mitigation
DDOS attacks are on the rise. In this episode, we discuss the types of attacks and how to create a mitigation strategy against bad BOTS.
What is Digital Experience Monitoring?
What is Digital Experience Monitoring? Scott Moore and Mehdi Daoudi, CEO of Catchpoint Systems cut through the confusion.
The Gartner® Performance Engineering Report
Scott Moore reviews the 2023 Gartner® Innovation Insight for Performance Engineering Report
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.
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:...
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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.
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