PurePerformance

We got Rick Boyd ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/richardjboyd/ ) – Application Performance Engineer at IBM Watson – and elaborated what Continuous Performance Testing is all about. We all concluded its about Faster Feedback in the development cycle back to the developers – integrated into your delivery pipeline. As compared to delivering performance feedback only at the end of a release cycle. We di...

Brett Hofer (@brett_solarch) has been engaged in numerous DevOps Transformation projects mainly for very large enterprises. We got to talk with him on this episode to learn more about how he assesses the status quo when he walks into an organization, what the top blocking items for a successful transformation are and what the best approaches are to implement the recommended changes. Spoiler alert:...

Thomas McGonagle just had his 10 years DevOps anniversary at it was 10 years ago when he got first exposed to Infrastructure as Code through Puppet. He is currently working with F5, helping Big IP Network Teams around the world automate the Network as part of their DevOps transformation. We met Tom at a recent DevOps meetup in Boston which sparked this conversation on what “Metrics Driven Continuo...

Mike Horwitz ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-horwitz-a40a139 ) has been working with Mainframe since the mid 80s. In this podcast he explains basic terminology and the challenges that come with the interaction to the distributed and cloud native world. Monitoring end-to-end is a critical capability especially when it comes to cost savings and including the mainframe components in a CI/CD/DevOps...

INFO COMMENTS We take time out chat with Jason Suss and Dynatrace RUM on RUM, we search for Richard Bentley at the nightclub, Vikram survived the performance puzzlers, Rick Boyd from IBM Watson and Stefan Baumgartner tells us all about his work at Dynatrace and podcasting at http://workingdraft.de

Josh McKenty of Pivotal

Brian Wilson takes time from his feverish disco dancing to have several interviews with attendees at the Tuesday evening party at Dynatrace 2017 in Las Vegas.

Good morning Las Vegas! We chat today about how to apply logic to Dynatrace Davis, we hear an interesting performance story from Lianggui and an industry update from Vice President of Consulting at CGI, Walter Kuketz.

Wrapping up the day with interviews from Henrik Rexed from Neotys and our new friends Rajesh Jain and Maggie Ambrose from Pivotal Labs.

We continue coverage of Dynatrace Perform 2017 with interviews from John Delfeld of Ixia, our favorite performance geek Andreas Grabner from Dynatrace and strategic partner Ryan Faulk of Faulk Consulting.

Woo hoo!! We're kicking off the Dynatrace conference in Las Vegas at the Cosmopolitan Hotel!

Eric Wright (@discoposse) is a “veteran” and expert when it comes to virtualization and cloud technologies. He introduces us into the field of container and container orchestrations, the vendors in the space, the pros and cons and the key capabilities he things have to be considered when evaluating the next generation virtualization platform for your enterprise. If you want to learn more check out...

How often have you deployed an application that was supposed to be load tested well but then crashed in production? One of the reasons might be that you never took the time to really analyze real life load patterns and distributions. Brian Chandler (@Channer531) ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-chandler-8366663b ) – Performance Engineer at Raymond James – has worked with their Operations Team t...

HAPPY NEW YEAR Daniel Freij (@DanielFreij) – Senior Performance Engineer and Community Manager at Apica – has been doing hundreds of load tests in his career. 5-10 years ago performance engineers used the “well known” load testing tools such as Load Runner. But things have changed as we have seen both a Shift-Left and a Shift-Right of performance engineering away from the classical performance and...

Mark Tomlinson, still a veteran and performance god, is enlightening us on his concept of Continuous Acceleration of Performance. Continuous Delivery is all about getting faster feedback from code changes as code gets deployed faster in smaller increments to the end user. One aspect that is often left out is feedback on performance metrics and behavior. In the “old days” performance feedback was g...

Mark Tomlinson, “a veteran” in Performance Engineering, discusses how DevOps is a big opportunity for performance engineering – but also a threat for many that have been in the business for a long time. The big question is: are “traditional performance engineers” using their Load Runners or SilkPerformers at the end of the project lifecycle ready to change? Ready to learn new tools? Ready to think...

In Part II with Finn Lorbeer (@finnlorbeer) from Thoughtworks we discuss some of the new approaches when implementing new software features. How can we build the right thing the right way for our end users? Feature development should start with UX wireframes to get feedback from end users before writing a single line of code. Feature teams then need to define and implement feedback loops to unders...

Finn Lorbeer (@finnlorbeer) is a quality enthusiast working for Thoughtworks Germany. I met Finn earlier this year at the German Testing Days where he presented the transformation story at Otto.de. He helped transform one of their 14 “line of business” teams by changing the way QA was seen by the organization. Instead of a WALL between Dev and Ops the teams started to work as a real DevOps team. F...

Gene Kim has been promoting a lot of the great DevOps Transformation stories from Unicorns (Innovators) but more so from "The Horses" (Early Adopters). The next DOES (DevOps Enterprise Summit) is just on its way helping him with his mission to increase DevOps adoption across the IT world. In our 3 podcast sessions we discussed the success factors of DevOps adoption, the reasons that lead to resist...

Gene Kim has been promoting a lot of the great DevOps Transformation stories from Unicorns (Innovators) but more so from "The Horses" (Early Adopters). The next DOES (DevOps Enterprise Summit) is just on its way helping him with his mission to increase DevOps adoption across the IT world. In our 3 podcast sessions we discussed the success factors of DevOps adoption, the reasons that lead to resist...

Gene Kim has been promoting a lot of the great DevOps Transformation stories from Unicorns (Innovators) but more so from "The Horses" (Early Adopters). The next DOES (DevOps Enterprise Summit) is just on its way helping him with his mission to increase DevOps adoption across the IT world. In our 3 podcast sessions we discussed the success factors of DevOps adoption, the reasons that lead to resist...

Guest Star: Anita Engleder - DevOps Manager at Dynatrace In this second part of our podcast Anita gives us more insights into how new features actually get developed, how they measure their success and how to ensure that the pipeline keeps up with the ever increasing number of builds pushed through it. We will learn more about the day-to-day life at Dynatrace engineering but especially about the “...

Guest Star: Anita Engleder - DevOps Manager at Dynatrace As a follow up to our podcast with Bernd Greifender, CTO and Found of Dynatrace, who talked about his 2012 mission statement to the engineering team: “We go from 6 months 2 weeks release cycles” we now have Anita Engleder, DevOps Lead at Dynatrace on the mic. Anita has been part of that transformation team and in the first episode talks abou...

We got to talk with Bernd Greifeneder, Founder and CTO of Dynatrace, who recently gave a talk on “From 0 to NoOps in 80 Days” explaining the “Digital Transformation Story of Dynatrace – the product as well as the company” The transformation started in 2012 when Dynatrace used to deploy 2 major releases of its Dynatrace AppMon & UEM product to the market. The incubation of the startup Ruxit within...