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Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) is a defined category by Gartner to address the true user experience. Are there visibility gaps left open by traditional APM and Observability platforms? GUEST:  Scott Sumner, CMO at Kadiska LINKEDIN PROFILE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scosumner/ Show Notes Kadiska: https://kadiska.com/ Free Trial URL: http://kadiska.com/try Sponsors This podcast is sponsored b...

The TestMu conference happening in August of 2023 is a free online-only conference featuring top speakers in the QA testing community. In this episode we discuss what you can expect and the trends in testing today with Mudit Singh of LambaTest. GUEST:  Mudit Singh LINKEDIN PROFILE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/muditsingh5000/  Show Notes TestMu 2023 Conference Site: https://www.lambdatest.com/testm...

Observability platforms are announcing integrations with OpenAI ChatGPT. How will AI  affect the future of these products and what new features can we expect? Guest: David Tattersall, CEO of Intergral FusionReactor Support the SMC Journal. Buy Me A Coffee: https://bit.ly/smcjournalcoffee Show Notes GUEST: David Tattersall Intergal FusionReactor has added OpsPilot AI, an integration with Chat GPT-4...

Load testing Apache Kafka with the LoadRunner Kafka Protocol. What does it look like? Watch a demo of the protocol in action on this episode. Show Notes What is Apache Kafka? A software platform built for event streaming. What is event streaming? Think of it as a central nervous system for all of your applications to communicate. It captures data in real-time from many sources as events, and allow...

Bencher is a tool made to detect and prevent performance regressions before they make it to production, used within a continuous integration pipeline. Scott Moore interviews the founder, Everett Pompeii in this episode. Show Notes Site: https://bencher.dev GitHub: https://github.com/bencherdev/bencher Prior benchmarking efforts: https://bencher.dev/docs/reference/prior-art Sponsors This podcast is...

Ransomware attacks are on the rise and have increased by almost 50% in the last year. How can companies mitigate this threat and lower the severity of impact on their business? Ron Foster from Saltworks Security walks us through it. Show Notes Thales 2023 Report on Ransomware: https://www.thalesgroup.com/en/worldwide/security/press_release/2023-thales-data-threat-report-reveals-increase-ransomware...

Several Observability vendors have made announcements about integrating generative AI into their product. Scott reviews and breaks down what it means in this episode. Show Notes Recent announcements covered in this episode Honeycomb taps into chatGPT with Query Assistant: https://siliconangle.com/2023/05/03/honeycomb-introduces-generative-ai-query-tool-observability-platform/ https://devops.com/ho...

What value does the test results provide performance engineer versus a decision maker? Why should you use Cost as a quality gate to control the efficiency of applications? Support the SMC Journal. Buy Me A Coffee: https://bit.ly/smcjournalcoffee For a video version of this episode: https://youtu.be/hhoIn5MKGnI Show Notes GUEST: Joey Hendricks, Senior Performance Engineer LINKEDIN PROFILE: https://...

What does continuous performance within modern software development look like in a DevOps world? Scott interviews Lee Barnes for insights. For a video version of this episode: https://youtu.be/upgccupN3NA   Support the SMC Journal. Buy Me A Coffee: https://bit.ly/smcjournalcoffee Show Notes Lee Barnes Twitter: @USI_LeeBarnes Forte Group: Fortegrp.com GUEST: Lee Barnes, Chief Quality Officer at For...

Find out about why software RAID isn't fast enough for the latest NVMe storage advancements, and how GRAID Technology is making SSD fast enough to keep up with the CPU. Support the SMC Journal. Buy Me A Coffee: https://bit.ly/smcjournalcoffee For a video version of this episode: https://youtu.be/UtV75W4j0Yg Show Notes Whitepaper: Performance Comparison o RAID 5 Solutions for PCIe Gen 5 NVMe SSDs:...

Demonstrating LoadRunner Developer and how to use it within a standard IDE like VS Code to produce low level load testing of new features, with the testing executed by the developers. Scott comments on the value of shifting left and shows that many of the statements about LoadRunner not being viable for developers is untrue. Additional links to check out as referenced in this episode: LRD Overview...

DDOS attacks are on the rise. In this episode, we discuss the types of attacks and how to create a mitigation strategy against bad BOTS. Ron Foster from Saltworks Security shares how to identify and mitigate these kinds of attacks. For a video version of this episode: https://youtu.be/0GdURRSP_6E Support the SMC Journal. Buy Me A Coffee: [https://bit.ly/smcjournalcoffee](https://bit.ly/smcjournalc...

How does a performance engineer approach building a high performance virtualization server on a budget? For a video version of this podcast: https://www.youtube.com/embed/6CpEn1mOYBk Support the SMC Journal. Buy Me A Coffee: https://bit.ly/smcjournalcoffee Show Notes Scott Moore builds his own virtualization server. Parts used: Supermicro M11SDV-8C-LN4F iStarUSA Group D-214-MATX SAMSUNG 990 PRO NV...

The latest information in software engineering, including new product releases, acquisition, and news items centered around performance testing, observability, AIOps, and more. For a video version of this episode: https://youtu.be/KIGjIm4mSds HPE to acquire OpsRamp AIOps Platform: https://devops.com/hpe-to-acquire-opsramp-to-gain-aiops-platform/   Smartbear Acquires Aspecto: https://smartbear.com/...

Profiles are an exciting new data type in OpenTelemetry coming soon to help round out what is possible with OpenTelemetry instrumentation. Josh Lee from Instana dives into the details. Episode: 120 Air Date: 04/18/2023 Title: Opentelemetry Profiling GUEST: Josh Lee (Instana) LINKEDIN PROFILE:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshuamlee/ For a video version of this episode: https://youtu.be/eU_CIi4jd0w...

Scott Moore interviews the Founder of Saltworks Security about their new SaltMiner Community Edition software, and how they help security testers in a DevOps world handle CI pipelines. For a video version of this podcast: https://www.youtube.com/embed/has7ALblTAc Support the SMC Journal. Buy Me A Coffee: https://bit.ly/smcjournalcoffee Show Notes Saltworks Security helps security teams build autom...

James Pulley and Brian Bernknopf share big news about a company acquisition that affects the performance engineering community as a whole. Episode: 118 Air Date: 04/04/2023 Title: Big News For Performance Engineers Globally GUEST: James Pulley LINKEDIN PROFILE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jameslpulley3/ For a video version of this episode: https://www.youtube.com/embed/0VT8rTMKsXA Support the SMC...

Parallel is a new SaaS load testing solution. What makes it different from other load testing products? Episode: 117 Air Date: 03/28/2023 Title: Load testing with Parallel GUEST:  Yev Spektor LINKEDIN PROFILE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yevgeniyspektor/ Support the SMC Journal. Buy Me A Coffee: https://bit.ly/smcjournalcoffee Show Notes Scott Moore interviews Yev Spektor, the founder of Parallel...

Guest David McLeish shares all the new features and updates of LoadRunner 2023. Episode: 116 Air Date: 03/21/2023 Title: What's New With LoadRunner 2023 GUEST: David McLeish LINKEDIN PROFILE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-mcleish-58a9b62/   To see this episode in video format: https://youtu.be/3w32Mc5HqSk   Support the SMC Journal. Buy Me A Coffee: https://bit.ly/smcjournalcoffee Show Notes Th...

How does Real User Monitoring metrics provide? How important is a high score in Google Lighthouse to website performance? Episode: 115 Air Date: 03/14/2023 Title: Real User Monitoring and Website Performance GUEST: Erwin Hofman LINKEDIN PROFILE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erwinhofman/ For a video version of this episode: https://smcjournal.com/episode/real-user-monitoring-and-website-performance/...

Learn the value of combining load testing and resilience experiments with LoadRunner and Gremlin, and where the product is going next. Episode: 114 Air Date: 03/07/2023 Title: Load Testing and Chaos Engineering Integration GUEST: Jeff Ni LINKEDIN PROFILE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffnickoloff/ For a video version of this episode: https://smcjournal.com/episode/loadrunner-gremlin-integration/ S...

How does the video games industry test software? How do you automate test cases for video game engines? Find out with our guest Shane Evans from Gamedriver. Episode: 113 Air Date: 02/28/2023 Title: Test Automation In Video Games With Gamedriver GUEST: Shane Evans LINKEDIN PROFILE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/neoevans/ For a video version of this episode: https://smcjournal.com/episode/test-automat...

What is Cilium? What is eBPF? How does Cilium improve Kubernetes? Scott Moore talks to Bill Mulligan at Isovalent about what makes Cilium a better choice for network traffic shaping, queuing, and observability than native K8s implementations. Episode: 112 Air Date: 02/23/2023 Title: How Does Cilium Improve K8s Performance? GUEST: Bill Mulligan LINKEDIN PROFILE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bamullig...

Groundcover is a new Observability platform that uses eBPF to provide for metrics, logs, and traces. Is it the next big thing? Scott Moore interviews Co-founder and CEO Shahar Azulay on this episide. Episode: 111 Air Date: 02/14/2023 Title: Next Generation Observability With Groundcover GUEST: Shahar Azulay LINKEDIN PROFILE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shahar-azulay-54156bb4/ For a video version o...

The Gartner® Innovation Insight for Performance Engineering Report Episode: 110 Air Date: 02/07/2023 Title: The Gartner® Performance Engineering Report For a video version of this episode: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ulaxkS4v2EQ   Support the SMC Journal. Buy Me A Coffee:  https://bit.ly/smcjournalcoffee Show Notes Scott Moore reviews the 2023 Gartner® Innovation Insight for Performance Engineerin...