PurePerformance

PurePerformance

The brutal truth about digital performance engineering and operations. Andreas (aka Andi) Grabner and Brian Wilson are veterans of the digital performance world. Combined they have seen too many applications not scaling and performing up to expectations. With more rapid deployment models made possible through continuous delivery and a mentality shift sparked by DevOps they feel it’s time to share their stories. In each episode, they and their guests discuss different topics concerning performance, ranging from common performance problems for specific technology platforms to best practices in d...

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PurePerformance

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Latest episode

Jul 6, 2026

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Episodes

Why DevOps must not mean Devs On Call with Michael Friedrich 30.08.2021

Understanding the secret behind the turbo button on his first 486 PC motivated our guest to study computer science. That decision started a journey making him constantly learn new technology ranging from coding languages, operational tasks as well as a focusing on improving developer experiences and boosting developer productivity Listen in and hear from Michael Friedrich (@dnsmichi), The Ops in D...

The hitchhiking guide to load testing projects with Leandro Melendez 16.08.2021

“Because 9 out of 10 load testing projects fail due to ignorance and outdated thinking about load testing!”. That was the answer Leandro Melendez, aka Señor Performo, gave us when asking him why the world needs yet another book about load testing. In too many projects Leandro has to remind and educate decision makers and practitioner’s about load testing best practices, how to ask the right questi...

What is Data-Driven Product Management with Manav Chugh 02.08.2021

Building products that people want to use and activating users to try out new capabilities has to be the ultimate goal of every product manager. User and usage data is the enabler to make the right decisions. But data doesn’t come for free – and making the right decisions is something that data alone doesn’t guarantee Listen in and learn from Manav Chugh, product enthusiast, medium blogger and org...

State of Web Performance Optimization in 2021 with Sergey Chernyshev 19.07.2021

Like many frontend developers, Sergey Chernyshev was inspired in the late 2000 by Steve Souders to contribute to and grow the web performance community. Not only did he launch the Meed4SPEEDs as part of the New York Web Performance Meetup. He also worked for meetup.com helping them to improve web performance and user experience. Over the past years Sergey contributed to many projects such as WebPa...

Shift-Left Load Testing is a LIE with Hassy Veldstra 05.07.2021

In his SLOConf talk Production load testing as a guardrail for SLOs and in his blog Production Load Testing, Hassy Veldstra, founder of artillery.io makes the case for load testing in production. It helped him in various organizations to establish SLOs (Service Level Objectives) and change the way engineers think about performance. He got inspired by Building Evolutionary Architectures which intro...

Making the case for SRE in a DevOps organization with Bart Enkelaar 21.06.2021

How do you convince an organization that just went through a 2 year DevOps transformation to continue the journey by applying SRE practices? What is SRE anyway? What are good SLOs? And how do you get development teams to take responsibility for their code in production? Bart Enkelaar, Lead Site Reliability Engineer at bol.com, not only got their organization to apply SRE practices, define good SLO...

The future of security is open source and Falco leads the way with Dan Pop 07.06.2021

While some think about the late Austrian musician, Dan POP and the CNCF community thinks about modern security when it comes to Falco. Listen in and hear directly from Dan (@danpopnyc) who, besides doing many things in the CNCF community, also hosts POPCAST where he started connecting technology leaders during the last year. In the podcast you learn a lot about security, the power of eBPF and how...

Roadmap to k8s, DevOps and more with Nana 24.05.2021

Wonder what you learn when building k8s from scratch for a large enterprise? Wonder what you learn when automating delivery by connecting your different DevOps tools together? Nana Janashia runs one of the most successful technical YouTube channels called TechWorld with Nana where she covers topics ranging from containers, docker, k8s, cloud native and DevOps. She basically takes her lessons learn...

Old Patterns powering modern tech leading to same old performance problems with Taras Tsugrii 10.05.2021

Have you ever thought about reorganizing data allocation based on production telemetry data? Have you ever thought about shifting compiler budgets to parts of your code that is heavily executed based on profiling information captured from your real end users? Whether the answer is yes or no you will be fascinated by Taras Tsugrii, Software Engineer at Facebook, who is sharing his experience on opt...

The State of OpenTelemetry with Jaana Dogan 26.04.2021

Googles Census, OpenCencus, OpenTelemetry and AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry. Our guest Jaana Dogan, Principal Engineer at AWS, has been working in observability over many years and definitely had a positive impact on the where OpenTelemetry is today. In this episode Jaana (@rakyll) explains which problems the industry, and especially cloud vendors, try to solve with their investment in open source...

How to scale Performance Engineering in enterprises with Roman Ferstl 12.04.2021

Performance Engineering is not about running a performance test twice a year. That is just a poor attempt trying to validate your non functional requirements. Roman Ferstl, Managing Directory at Triscon, has discovered his love for performance engineering while optimizing code for software used in a space program. He then founded Triscon who is now helping to establish and scale performance engine...

How not to start with Kubernetes – Lessons learned from DevOps Engineer Christian Heckelmann 29.03.2021

To k8s or not – that should be the first question to answer before considering k8s. Granted – in many cases k8s is going to be the right choice but don’t just default to k8s because its hip or cool. In this episode we have Christian Heckelmann (@wurstsalat), DevOps Engineer at ERT, talking about his journey with k8s which started with installing k8s 1.9 on bare metal. He gives a lot of great advic...

What is Liquid Software with Baruch Sadogursky 08.03.2021

You heard about Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment. Liquid Software aims to provide the next step towards Trusted Continuous Updates in the DevOps World. In this episode Baruch Sadogursky, DevOps Advocate from JFrog, explains how as engineers we need to add “Updateability” to our non-functional requirements and how product managers and marketing have to forget ab...

How to protect continuous software delivery against supply chain attacks with Michael Plank 22.02.2021

Software security is about securing websites against malicious attacks or using firewalls to prevent hackers entering your enterprise network. While this is part of software security there is much more that needs to be done – especially as more organizations are developing critical software it is important to protect the whole software delivery lifecycle from any malicious attacks along the supply...

Bad Software Engineering killed Cyberpunk 2077 Release – What we can learn from it with Dave Farley 08.02.2021

If you are not a gamer you may have never heard about Cyberpunk 2077. If you are – you may know about the challenges during their latest release. Dave Farley (@davefarley77), Co-Author of best seller Continuous Delivery, has been an engineering large and complex systems for decades. His work helped elevate our industry around Continuous Delivery and DevOps. In this episode he shares his learnings...

Chaos Engineering Stories that could have prevented a global pandemic 25.01.2021

Nobody has foreseen the global pandemic that put a lot of chaos in all our lives recently. Let’s just hope we learn from 2020 to better prepare on what might be next. The same preparation and learning also goes for Chaos in our distributed systems that power our digital lives. And to learn from those stories and better prepare for common resiliency issues we brought back Ana Medina (@ana_m_medina)...

What is Data-Driven Continuous Delivery aka CDv2 with Tracy Ragan 11.01.2021

When moving to microservice architectures its time to re-think continuous delivery. Just as many software services rely on a core data analytics engine to make better automated decisions we need to apply the same for continuous delivery. We can assess the risk of every microservice deployment based on data from production and the desired change of configuration. We can assess the potential blast r...

How to successfully run k8s software in SaaS and on-premise with Marc Campbell 28.12.2020

K8s enables organizations to more easily deploy their containerized solutions as it takes away a lot of the operational tasks which are built-into k8s. This in theory means that you can run your software anywhere and provide it as SaaS offering or deploy it behind corporate firewalls for those customers that demand an on-premise installation. In this episode we have Marc Campbell, Founder and CTO...

Scaling Dev Teams from Startup to Enterprise while keeping Agility with Stefan Frandl 14.12.2020

Stefan Frandl, Development Director, has a single digit employee number at Dynatrace and therefore seen a lot of agile transformation over the past 15 years – growing from a startup in Linz, Austria to now 800+ engineers across globally distributed labs. A visit to several “unicorns” such as Google, Facebook and Slack triggered the latest agile transformation. In this episode Stefan walks us throu...

Scaling Agile at Dynatrace with Andrea Holl 30.11.2020

SAFE, LESS or the Spotify Model? Which scaled agile method to apply for your transformation? Or are you unique enough like 44% of organizations based on a European research that are defining their own scaled agile approach to transform successfully? In this episode we sit down with Andrea Holl, Agile Coach at Dynatrace, and let her walk us through the different scaled agile frameworks. She discuss...

Why you should look into Chaos Engineering with Ana Medina 16.11.2020

Daylight savings can bring chaos to systems such as rogue processes consuming CPU or memory and therefore impact your critical systems. The question is: how do you systems react to this chaos? How can you test for this? And how can you make your systems more resilient against this chaos? In this episode we talk with Ana Margarita Medina, Chaos Engineer at Gremlin. In her previous job, Ana (@Ana_M_...

How to scale k8s operations from a single to thousands of clusters 02.11.2020

We are sitting down with Sebastian Scheele (@sscheele), CEO and co-founder of Kubermatic, to discuss the challenges organizations have as they are moving their workloads to k8s and realize that managing, scaling and operating k8s is not getting easier the more k8s clusters you allow your application teams to spin up or down. We learn more about the Kubermatic Kubernetes Platform, the Open Source P...

What we have learned about K8s and Open-source when building Keptn 19.10.2020

Keptn is now a CNCF sandbox project bringing a new event-driven approach to continuous delivery and operations. While many are just hearing about Keptn the first time, it is interesting to learn more about how it started, which challenges the team ran into, what they learned about K8s, and running an open-source project. We therefore invited Johannes Braeuer (@braeuer_j) and Andreas Grimmer (@grim...

Bringing Observability to .NET with Georg Schausberger and Bernhard Ruebl 05.10.2020

Getting visibility into .NET code whether it runs on a developer machine, on a windows server on-premise or as a serverless function in the cloud is the day2day job of Georg Schausberger (@BombadilThomas) and Bernhard Ruebl, part of the Dynatrace .NET Agent Team. In this podcast we hear firsthand about the challenges in bringing observability, monitoring and distributed tracing to the .NET ecosyst...

Successful Enterprise Monitoring Projects with Kayan Hales 21.09.2020

Successful Cloud Migrations, large scale Kubernetes & OpenShift deployments, making billions of data points actionable and enterprise-wide Citrix & SAP monitoring. These are some of the projects Kayan Hales, Technical Manager at Dynatrace, and her colleagues at Dynatrace ONE help enterprise customers around the world to implement every day. We sat down with Kayan as we wanted to learn what really...

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