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Scale Kubernetes and Boost Performance
Let’s look at each component of Kubernetes and determine how to make it scale. The CTO of PerfectScale shares how to optimize k8s deployed applications.
Best Practices For DevOps With Service Mocking
Service Virtualization or Mocking is crucial to the model application development lifecycle. Scott interviews the CEO of Speedscale about the importance of implementing mocking and how to do it properly. This includes imitating API calls that perform poorly.
Blackhat and Defcon 2023 Coverage
As part of his Blackhat and Defcon conference coverage, Scott interviews Alex Waintraub and Thomas Plank on application security topics. They cover ransomware, data tampering detection, and the impact of AI on appsec.
AI Test Automation with Testgrid Is Awesome
Scott Moore talks to the founder and CEO of TestGrid to find out how AI test automation is changing the game for end to end automated testing. It includes a demo of the product.
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.
SteadyBit and LoadRunner
Scott Moore interviews the CEO of SteadyBit about the LoadRunner integration that provides chaos and resilience testing features to load testing scenarios.
Classic Episodes
Peplink Tech Summit 2023 (Part 2)
Tech Summit Part 1. West Networks and Peplink are leaders in the SD-WAN industry. They recently hosted their annual Tech Summit conference in Savannah, GA.
SteadyBit and LoadRunner
Scott Moore interviews the CEO of SteadyBit about the LoadRunner integration that provides chaos and resilience testing features to load testing scenarios.
Improve Kubernetes Performance With eBPF
What is eBPF and how does it improve Kubernetes performance? Scott Moore talks to Bill Mulligan at Isovalent about why eBPF is a better choice for network traffic shaping, queuing, and observability than native K8s implementations.
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.
Episode 096: Actionable Observability With Metrist
Scott Interviews Ryan Duffield – CTO, Metrist. They discuss how Metrist monitors back end cloud services to provide better incident management response and prevent outages.
Episode 094: KubeCon 2022: Summary Overview
Scott shares his thoughts on the KubeCon 2022 conference held in Detroit.
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.











