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 Performance Engineering in 2020 is still failing with James Pulley 07.09.2020

Why do some organizations still see performance testing as a waste of time? Why are we not demanding the same level of performance criteria for SaaS-based solutions as we do for in-house hosted services? Why are many organizations just validating performance to be “within specification” vs “holistically optimized”? In this episode we have invited James Pulley (@perfpulley), Performance Veteran and...

Encore - Understanding the Power of Feature Flags with Heidi Waterhouse 24.08.2020

Imagine a future where we deploy every code change directly into production because feature flags eliminated the need for staging. Feature flags allow us to deploy any code change, but only launch the feature to a specific set of users that we want to expose to new capabilities. Monitoring the usage and the impact enables continuous experimentation: optimizing what is not perfect yet and throw awa...

Encore - How to build distributed resilient systems with Adrian Hornsby 03.08.2020

Adrian Hornsby (@adhorn) has dedicated his last years helping enterprises around the world to build resilient systems. He wrote a great blog series titled “Patterns for Resilient Architectures” and has given numerous talks about this such as Resiliency and Availability Design Patterns for the Cloud at DevOne in Linz earlier this year. Listen in and learn more about why resiliency starts with human...

Service Meshes: From simple load balancing to securing planet scale architectures with Sebastian Weigand 20.07.2020

Whether you are still researching on whether you need a Service Mesh or simple use a load balancer or if you are already deploying multi hybrid-cloud architectures and Service Meshes help you secure the location aware routed traffic. In both cases: listen to this episode! We invited Sebastian Weigand (@ThatDevopsGuy) back to our podcast who wrote papers such as Building a Planet-Scale Architecture...

From Postmortems to true SRE Culture with Steve McGhee 06.07.2020

Steve McGhee (@stevemcghee) is an expert in post mortems and SRE. He has learned the craft at Google, applied it at MindBody and is now sharing his experiences while back at Google to the larger SRE community. Listen to this episode and learn more about how post mortem analysis can be the starting point of your SRE transformation. How it can help reliability engineering to build and engineer syste...

SLO Adoption and Usage in SRE with Sebastian Weigand 22.06.2020

Keep hearing the terms SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, Error Budgets and finally want to understand what they are, who should be responsible for and how they fit into SRE (Site Reliability Engineering)? Then listen to our conversation with Sebastian Weigand who has been helping organizations modernizing not only their application stacks but also helping them embrace DevOps & SRE. Learn about who is responsible...

Building High Performing Apps on React with Cassidy Williams 08.06.2020

Cassidy (@cassidoo) has been building but also educating developers on how to build apps on React, JavaScript, JAMStack and many other technologies over the past years. We got her on our podcast where she gave us insights into React Hooks, how WPO (Web Performance Optimization) plays out in the React world, why it is important to think about state from the start and that its important to always ha...

Extreme load testing with 2Mio Virtual Users: Lessons learned with Joerek van Gaalen 25.05.2020

How do you prepare for a 2Mio concurrent user load that lasts for 7 seconds? What does the load infrastructure look like? How do you optimize your scripts? How do you deal with DNS or CDNs? In this episode we hear from Joerek van Gaalen who has done these types of tests. He shares his experiences and approaches to running these “special event extreme load tests”. If you want to learn more make sur...

Everything we messed up and learned when moving to AWS with Justin Donohoo 11.05.2020

Have you ever burned 30k because you forgot to turn off your test VMs over the weekend? Have you ever accidentally deleted “the production table” because you thought you were connected to your dev database? We often only hear the good stories and not those that teach us about what we should not do in order to avoid disaster! Join this episode where Justin Donohoo, Founder and CTO of Observian, tel...

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of Open Source with Goranka Bjedov 27.04.2020

Goranka Bjedov has seen the different sides of Open Source while she was working for organizations such as Google, Facebook or AT&T Labs. Before she takes the stage at www.devone.at later this year she gives us her take on Scott McNealy’s quote “Open Source is free like a puppy is free”. Tune in and hear her thoughts on how to pick the right tools, languages or frameworks, how to grow a an open so...

Achieving Reliability through Chaos Engineering with Tammy Bütow 13.04.2020

Starting your new job as Infrastructure Engineer in a large bank with your to-be boss and his key architects just leaving feels like Chaos! Maybe that’s why Tammy Butow has made a career in Chaos and Site Reliability Engineering. In this episode, Tammy shares her experiences of bring reliability into highly complex systems at NAB, Digital Ocean, DropBox or now Gremlin through chaos engineering. Yo...

Demystifying DevTestSecOps: Automating Security into your Culture with Adam Auerbach 30.03.2020

3 years ago, Adam Auerbach explained how he helped Capital One to automate performance into the DevOps Delivery Pipeline. In 2020, where IT Security is a hot trending topic, Adam works for EPAM and is back advocating for the same shift-left he as advocated for when it comes to functional or performance testing. But now – its about baking Security into your practices & culture. And he has a cool wo...

DesignOps with Barista: Scaling UX and UI Efficiency at Dynatrace 16.03.2020

DesignOps, just as DevOps or NoOps, is targeted towards increasing the efficiency and collaboration between designers and engineers in order to deliver better, intuitive and consistent user experiences. It requires changes in processes, people and tooling and is heavily driven by enabling engineers to become more autonomous when developing and delivering new value for their organization. Join this...

A Minimalistic Approach to Kubernetes with Kelsey Hightower 02.03.2020

We're back to our regular scheduled show! Kelsey Hightower (@kelseyhightower) has worn many hats as it says on his bio but we also learned from him that he probably doesn’t have that many hats at home as he has been living a minimalistic life over the past couple of years. A philosophy as we learn in this podcast that also goes well when it comes to building your next platform on Kubernetes. In th...

Perform 2020 Finale 06.02.2020

We wrap up the last day of the Dynatrace Perform 2020 conference with an announcement of winners and learnings for the week

Perform 2020 en Español con Cesar Quintana 06.02.2020

Vamos terminando el evento teniendo una platica con nuestro amigo Cesar Quintana quien tambien dio una vuelta por nuestro stand a platicar un poco de su experiencia en esta gran cxonferencia.

Perform2020 Andi on the Street: NoOps, thresholds and hybrid observability 06.02.2020

Andi Grabner, our man-on-the-street, gets the scoop on: -NoOps: Reaching zero-incident prod through auto-remediation-as-code​ with Juergen Etzlstorfer -Beyond thresholds – Find anomalies and reduce false positives with Thomas Natschlaeger -Hybrid observability, from enterprise cloud to mainframe and everything in between with Alex Huetter

Perform 2020 Updates and News with Henrik Rexed of Neotys 06.02.2020
Perform2020 Andi on the Street: Observability & Beyond, AI powered Kubernetes, and Real User Monitoring 06.02.2020

Andi Grabner, our man-on-the-street, gets the scoop on: -Observability and beyond - with Thomas Rothschädl -Automated, AI-powered answers for Kubernetes with Matt Reider -RUM Roadmap with Alexander Sommer

Perform 2020 Aerolineas exitosas con Santiago Palacios 06.02.2020
Perform 2020 xMatters Automating Remediation Actions with TravisDepuy 06.02.2020

Travis Depuy of xMatters speaks to Leandro & Brian about how to leverage tools like xMatters to enable proactive alerting and remediation throughout your code life-cycle

Perform 2020: Cloud Modernization with Robert Sirchia of Magenic 06.02.2020

Leveraging APM to enable smarter cloud migration

Perform 2020 Chris Tells a Performance Horror Story 06.02.2020
Perform2020 Andi on the Street: Web Scale, OpenTelemetry and Resiliency 06.02.2020

Andi Grabner, our man-on-the-street, gets the scoop on: -Going web-scale with cross-environment features, globally distributed high availability and more​ - with Guido Deinhammer -The role of OpenTelemetry in Dynatrace​ with Daniel Khan and Sonja Chevre -Build resiliency into your continuous delivery pipeline​ with Michael Villiger

Perform 2020 Español: Gabriel Prioli, amigo de Dynatrace 06.02.2020

Tenemos tambien a Gabriel Prioli platicandonos un poco de la conferencua y su experiencia ayudando con la herramienta.

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