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This episode explores the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence in software, with a focus on how software engineering professionals and QA can keep pace. We discuss the quality of software generated by AI tools, and how to adapt mindsets to these new tech trends. 🔥 Like and Subscribe 🔥  💰 Sponsors If you are interested in sponsoring my content, contact me directly via email or LinkedIn for...

In this episode, Scott Moore interviews Stephane Landelle, CTO of Gatling. They talk about the new Gatling Studio and the problems it solves for both developers and performance engineers. Find out more at https://gatling.io 🔥  Like and Subscribe 🔥  💰 Sponsors If you are interested in sponsoring my content, contact me directly via email or LinkedIn for more information. email = heyscott @ smcjou...

How can AI drive performance engineering and testing? This episode explores five significant shifts in the landscape, providing insights into the impact of artificial intelligence on software testing. Discover how automation testing and performance monitoring tools are evolving, making the untestable, testable, with machine learning approaches. 🔥 Like and Subscribe 🔥 Connect with me 👋 TWITTER ►...

Host Scott Moore dives into the world of AI in performance testing, exploring how tools like Tricentis NeoLoad, BlazeMeter, and OpenText are leveraging predictive analytics, generative AI, and agentic AI to transform the field. But is the hype real? Moore offers a balanced perspective, urging us to embrace AI’s potential while staying grounded in expertise and validation.  🔥  Like and Subscribe...

The P99 Conference is a must-attend event that dives deep into the art and science of building and scaling high-performance systems. Register: p99conf.io Huyen Chip's site: https://huyenchip.com/ 🔥  Like and Subscribe 🔥  💰 Sponsors If you are interested in sponsoring my content, contact me directly via email or LinkedIn for more information. email = heyscott @ smcjournal.com  (remove spaces aro...

In this episode, we are exploring the concept of context engineering and its potential to bring back discipline to software development in the age of vibe coding. Could context engineering bring back some needed discipline for better software outcomes?  🔥  Like and Subscribe 🔥  💰 Sponsors If you are interested in sponsoring my content, contact me directly via email or LinkedIn for more informat...

MCP servers everywhere in tech feeds these days, and while it's becoming a crucial part of AI agents communicating with software and utilizing their services to perform powerful tasks. On today's show we talk about how much the MCP Server phenomena is impacting the developer experience. My gues is Ricky Robinett from Cloudflare. 👋 Connect With Me   📫 Newsletter (Subscribe): https://bit.ly/ytmail...

Are your load testing efforts falling short? In this episode of the SMC Journal, I give you five big reasons why load testing doesn't work for many organizations based on my 30+ years of consulting experience in performance engineering. Just me talking directly to you. 📺  Watch the full video here: 👉   https://youtu.be/uqwfE9w-uVU

Is the Software Lifecycle Engineer (SLE) the future for addressing software performance? In this video, Scott Moore will discuss a possible alternative to the Site Reliability Engineer for operational requirements across the entire software development lifecycle. 😀 For more great content like this check out the SMC Journal at https://smcjournal.com   ✉️ Join the mailing list ► https://bit.ly/ytma...

What is Internet Performance Monitoring (IPM)? In this episode of the SMC Journal, you’ll learn about blind spots in current APM and Observability platforms, and why IPM is crucial for monitoring modern applications on the web. ☕ Want to support the show? Buy Me A Coffee! https://bit.ly/3NadcPK ☕ OR BUY MY COFFEE ► https://bit.ly/503blend  💵 Buy something from my Amazon Store ► https://bit.ly/s...

Let's explore Altinity for blazing fast database performance! Real-time analytics & open source explained.   💰 Sponsors If you are interested in sponsoring my content, contact me directly via email or LinkedIn for more information. email = heyscott @ smcjournal.com  (remove spaces around the @) ☕ Want to support the show? Buy Me A Coffee! https://bit.ly/3NadcPK ☕ OR BUY MY COFFEE ► https://...

Scott Moore and Jay Akselrud discuss load testing in 2025. Get insights on DevOps and Continuous Testing, missing Skill Sets, and don't miss the "blooper" at the end.

Why one of my YouTube videos got limited views. I explain how Google Ads flagged a random keyword on my website.   🔥  Like and Subscribe 🔥  💰 Sponsors If you are interested in sponsoring my content, contact me directly via email or LinkedIn for more information. email = heyscott @ smcjournal.com  (remove spaces around the @) ☕ Want to support the show? Buy Me A Coffee! https://bit.ly/3NadcPK...

Discover how Checkly is transforming software monitoring with "Observability as Code". This approach allows developers to address the challenges of rapidly changing software.  🔥  Like and Subscribe 🔥  💰 Sponsors If you are interested in sponsoring my content, contact me directly via email or LinkedIn for more information. email = heyscott @ smcjournal.com  (remove spaces around the @) ☕ Want t...

🚀 **Check out this fascinating podcast episode about the transformative potential of Agentic AI!** 🤖 Learn how Agentic AI goes beyond task-based Generative AI, enabling goal-oriented and autonomous action.   🔧 Discover how it predicts system faults, proactively fixes issues, and streamlines IT operations.   💻 See how developers can use AI assistants to generate code and automate development cy...

Strengthen your cyber resilience! Join us as we discuss cyber resilience from a software engineering perspective with cybersecurity expert Teresa Lanowitz. We're talking with respected industry analyst Teresa Lanowitz about her new report on the 2024 Level Blue Futures for Cyber Resilience. With her deep understanding of the software development lifecycle and operational requirements like performa...

Former Mercury Interactive CMO, Chris Lochhead, reveals the company's customer-obsessed culture, aggressive execution strategies, and focus on category design that led to its legendary success in the software testing market. Learn how their unique approach can be applied to any company looking to dominate its industry.   🚀 Key Takeaways: ● Customer obsession is paramount. It's not just about prov...

This is the story of how I became a performance engineer. See the blog that goes with this video at https://scottmoore.consulting/blog/performance-engineer/ 🔥  Like and Subscribe 🔥  💰 Sponsors If you are interested in sponsoring my content, contact me directly via email or LinkedIn for more information. email = heyscott @ smcjournal.com  (remove spaces around the @) ✉️ Join my mailing list ► ht...

Why I switched from Ubiquiti to Peplink Wireless APs for better Wi-Fi performance. Use code PERFTOUR for a special discount at https://bit.ly/buypeplinksmc My insights switching from Unifi to a Peplink wireless AP.  n this episode of the SMC Journal podcast, I share my journey of replacing a Ubiquiti Unify Wireless Access Point with a Peplink Wireless AP. As remote work became essential, I saw the...

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The P99 Conference 2024, taking place on October 23-24, will focus on performance engineering and feature insights from industry leaders, emphasizing the significance of the 99th percentile in performance metrics and showcasing advancements in distributed databases and emerging technologies. Join the P99 Conference 2024 on Oct 23-24 by registering at https://bit.ly/P99CONF24 😀 For more great cont...

Speedscale addresses the challenges of scaling Kubernetes in a microservices and containerized, ephemeral environment. This includes real-traffic replays and service mocking to find bottlenecks and tune production and development environments. This episode sponsored by SpeedScale https://bit.ly/46KFWbY Insights on Scaling Kubernetes 🔍 Speedcale helps developers figure out if their code is about t...

What is DevPerfOps, you ask? DevPerfOps is a crucial concept in software engineering, emphasizing the integration of performance engineering into DevOps to prioritize and ensure continuous performance improvements. Key Insights About DevPerfOps 🧠 Scott Moore is focused on making a contribution to improve the group as a whole, with a particular interest in DevOps and continuous delivery. 🛠️ DevSec...

"Mastering OpenTelemetry and Observability" is a new book by Steve Flanders.  Observability in complex systems is crucial, and OpenTelemetry is the future of providing open source and vendor agnostic instrumentation and data collection for better understanding and troubleshooting system behavior. Key Insights on Mastering OpenTelemetry 🔍 Observability in complex systems is crucial for understandi...

eBPF is a powerful tool for improving performance in Kubernetes and microservices, providing real-time analysis and management, but its complexity may be a barrier for some developers. Donald Lutz shares his experience using it, and some of the pitfalls to watch out for on this SMC Journal #podcast.  Key Insights on eBPF Performance 🚀 The use of eBPF can help avoid the complexity and issues with...