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🤖 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 cycles.   🌐 Explore GenTech AI, where systems of collaborating agents achieve organizational goals through automation and swarm intelligence.

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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 performance and security, Teresa offers unique insights into building robust and resilient systems.

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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 limitations of my aging Wi-Fi setup and sought a more reliable solution. I will discuss my experience with Peplink products, highlighting their quality and performance, and explain why others might consider making a similar switch for improved home networking. 

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Insights on Scaling Kubernetes

🔍 Speedcale helps developers figure out if their code is about to blow up before pushing it into production by creating production conditions in their staging environments and local development machines. 🌐 Kubernetes enables teams to build microservice architectures, breaking the monolith into pieces and allowing for individual scaling of each component. 🚀 The ability to make small code changes and quickly push them to production with Kubernetes provides a time to market advantage for companies. 🚀 Speed and scale are key capabilities for teams testing their code in Kubernetes environments, not just for simulating production. 📊 Monitoring data and load testing are crucial for defining the memory and CPU needs of workloads in Kubernetes environments. 🚀 Scaling Kubernetes clusters can be challenging, but innovations like Carpenter can help manage node sizing and resource allocation effectively. 🔍 Using production monitoring data from tools like New Relic and DataDog can help in tuning production and non-production environments for Kubernetes and microservices. 🔮 Mocking out dependencies with one command line tool can revolutionize the development process and improve developer satisfaction.

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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. 🛠️ DevSecOps ensures security becomes a non-negotiable, so why can't DevPerfOps ensure performance becomes a non-negotiable as well? 💻 DevPerfOps is essential for critical systems that need to be fast, up, resilient, and efficient. 📈 DevPerfOps values working software with optimized performance and prioritizes ongoing optimization as a process, not an afterthought. 🚀 Efficient and performant applications bring a competitive advantage and can make you more money. 📊 Performance is not just a technical problem to solve, it is part of the business imperative and has a real impact on the company's financial and risk perspective. 📊 DevPerfOps emphasizes the importance of speaking in terms of business and proving value through metrics and information to become a valuable asset to the company. 🤔 DevPerfOps should exist for the same reason that DevSecOps exists - to address the shortcomings of dev ops in producing awesome business results.

Key Insights on Mastering OpenTelemetry

🔍 Observability in complex systems is crucial for understanding their behavior and troubleshooting. 📊 Observability is about being able to ask any question about the data collected from applications to determine system behavior, including availability, performance, and even security aspects. 🔍 OpenTelemetry aims to solve the issue of vendor lock-in by providing open source and vendor agnostic instrumentation and data collection. 🧠 The opportunity to give back and contribute something valuable to the community is a driving force behind sharing knowledge and expertise in technology fields. 📊 Focusing on availability and performance is crucial for observability, but understanding latency and performance characteristics can be very environment specific. 💡 OpenTelemetry provides data portability and full control of your data, allowing you to choose what you send, filter, sample, enrich, and redact. 💡 OpenTelemetry is the future, and it's in everyone's best interest to come together and make it the best product we can. 📈 OpenTelemetry's rapid acceptance and growth make it a staple in overall observability strategy for monitoring applications and business performance.

Andre Bondi discusses performance engineering and the content in his book, "Foundations of Software and System Performance Engineering: Process, Performance Modeling, Requirements, Testing, Scalability, and Practice" With Scott Moore.

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Video Insights About Performance Engineering

💡 Performance engineering forces you to think about the performance requirements at each layer of a system and how each outer layer drives the load at an inner layer. 📊 You can't look at the average statistics from end to end, you have to look at the ramp up time and whether the system is reaching a steady state. 🎸 Performance engineers should be the rock stars of the company, as they want the same things as the C-level and ensure efficient, cost-effective, and fast software. 🚨 Performance engineering is crucial in mission-critical systems, especially in scenarios like fire alarm systems where quick interventions are necessary. 📊  Many Computer Science graduates lack basic performance engineering knowledge, but it's crucial to being able to identify bottlenecks, understand performance requirements, and equip developers with performance hooks to optimize software systems early on. 💡Find out the different types of scalability and why each are important. 

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It packs some Enterprise features into the firmware along with multi-WAN capabilities. That makes it a step above other wireless AP routers in its class.

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Insights about the Peplink B One

💰 The Peplink B1 router is a replacement for the popular surf Soho at a very attractive price point of $299. 🚀 The Peplink B One router has the same throughput as the pro series of routers, with one gigabit per second of routing speed. 💡 The Peplink B One Router offers flexibility with multiple LAN and WAN connections, making it future-proof and able to handle high-speed Fusion connections without slowing down. 📶 The advantage of not having an internal Wan modem inside this device is that it's not going to go obsolete as quickly. 🌐 The real value of the Peplink B One router is in the Peplink ecosystem and firmware / software features including Peplink fusion bonding, WAN smoothing, and WAN relay capability. This makes it a versatile and powerful device for home and small office use. 🌐 The ability to combine multiple connections and use load balancing brings a lot of interesting use cases for the Peplink B One Router. 🌐 The B1 router's relay mode allows for secure connection to home network from a van or RV, providing flexibility and convenience for users on the go. 📶 You can add a mobile cellular WAN connection with a Peplink Max Adapter using the USB-C port on the front of the B one, enabling cellular connectivity. Compatible Android and hotspot devices can be used as well.  📶 It has the capability to act as a Wi-Fi access point and can support multiple WAN connections, making it a versatile option for small businesses and home offices. 🔒 When using the Speed Fusion VPN, the device can still achieve up to 400 megabits per second unencrypted, and 200 when encrypted.

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🚀 2024 is the year of the performance engineer for multiple reasons, and it's time for them to take a more important role in cloud optimization. 🧠 Let's stop solving these as tactical instances of the problem, making things more complex. Let's solve it a single time by building a layer of technology on top of everything. 🌐 Cloud providers are recognizing the need for multi-cloud optimization and are starting to work together to create a more interconnected ecosystem, rather than pushing for exclusive use of their own cloud services. 📊 The implementation of a formal methodology and process for cost governance in cloud computing is crucial for tracking spending, identifying under-optimized systems, and moving towards an optimized state. 💸 Based on our survey, companies are wasting 80% of resources that could be reallocated to building innovative systems and taking their business to the next level. 💰 Performance engineering presents a big business opportunity for companies who focus on making changes to improve efficiency and savings. 💭 This should be the year of performance engineering. If we want efficiency and reliability and sustainability that everybody wants, we need to do performance engineering. 🤑 The optimization capabilities and performance of cloud services directly impact the bottom line of a business, making it a crucial discussion at the board level.

This podcast is sponsored by Bryte Payment Solutions. They provide merchant services for a wide variety of credit card companies. Take most major credit cards at the lowest rates and fees possible. They help your business generate higher revenue through a variety of payment solutions, including Point Of Sale equipment and custom software. If you take credit cards for your business, you should contact them to see how they can help. Go to https://bryteps.com/ and tell them Scott Moore sent you.  

• 🛡️Fluency Security integrates real-time analytics with security platforms, setting them apart from traditional database-based or data lake-based platforms.
• 🧩The use of analytical algorithms in security conversations is essential for identifying anomalies and addressing them effectively.
• 🔒The ability to quarantine a machine on a different network using SIEM is a powerful security feature.
• 💡The approach of Fluency Security as a SIEM is different from traditional systems, as it focuses on maintaining a state position of every data and entity as it comes in, rather than just storing and searching using SQL queries.
• 🕰️The difference between streaming and database analytics is like counting people in a room in real-time versus counting them every five to ten minutes, causing delays and potential missed alerts.
• 🔄Real-time processing of data can actually use less processors, leading to cost savings compared to traditional methods.
• 🔍Fluency can provide alerts in just three seconds, while other systems take up to 15 minutes to detect infections.

This podcast is sponsored by Saltworks Security. For almost 10 years, Saltworks Security has delivered world class application security services and products, designed to help enterprises secure their applications from policy to production in an ever-changing security landscape. They are the makers of Saltworks SaltMiner, an application security management platform, designed by security professionals, for security professionals.

SaltMiner aggregates and normalizes issues found by many different solutions then enriches that data with business context. SaltMiner gives team members from the C-suite, security and development teams the ability to manage their application security program through customizable views.

The Saltworks SaltMiner Community Edition is a free Penetration Testing Management and Delivery application. It provides teams with custom reporting for potentially thousands of end users, red team support and the ability to manage new and retesting of engagements. SaltMiner Community Edition also allows teams to enforce both testing methodologies and custom vulnerability databases for consistency in engagement delivery.

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This podcast is sponsored by Bryte Payment Solutions. They provide merchant services for a wide variety of credit card companies. Take most major credit cards at the lowest rates and fees possible. They help your business generate higher revenue through a variety of payment solutions, including Point Of Sale equipment and custom software. If you take credit cards for your business, you should contact them to see how they can help. Go to https://bryteps.com/ and tell them Scott Moore sent you.

This podcast is sponsored by West Networks. Do you need unbreakable network connectivity? West Networks can help! They are a leading provider of Peplink-based SD-WAN solutions. They can help you achieve unbreakable connectivity by utilizing Peplink’s SpeedFusion Bandwidth Bonding technology.

Mobile Health Customers: Since 2012, West Networks has been assisting those in Mobile Health Services space by providing communities with access to life-saving technology.

Mobile Command Unit or First Responders: West Networks works with mobile command field units, like First Responders and new agencies, delivering faster and reliable access to mission critical information all the time.

Mobile Workers: Whether you’re an IT professional who needs to work from anywhere, or a full-time vacationing traveler in the RV community, West Networks can help you stay connected all the time.

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Peplink offers reliable and efficient networking solutions for businesses, with a focus on certification, product innovation, and community collaboration.

People at the Peplink Tech Summit 2023 were excited about the products and networking solutions, and the speaker is grateful for the support and announces upcoming shows for 2024.

Peplink Solutions are used for various temporary internet needs, with redundant cellular connections for reliability, and the company provides excellent customer support.

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This podcast is sponsored by OpenText – the Information Company. We power and protect information. Our purpose is to elevate every person and every organization to gain the information advantage. OpenText works to power the ubiquitous information around us to elevate everyone. We strive to help customers simplify their systems with frictionless automation and equip them to thrive and grow in a digital world. The LoadRunner family is one of many solutions areas where OpenText can help. Did you know that the LoadRunner family has the largest community of load testing practitioners in the world? Join the community at http://bit.ly/435Y5Po

Performance Engineering The LoadRunner Family Page:

https://www.microfocus.com/en-us/portfolio/performance-engineering/overview

Performance Playlist (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlUdEXI83_XoQrAsCj2A92v5AmXqVfoIO

This podcast is sponsored by Saltworks Security. For almost 10 years, Saltworks Security has delivered world class application security services and products, designed to help enterprises secure their applications from policy to production in an ever-changing security landscape. They are the makers of Saltworks SaltMiner, an application security management platform, designed by security professionals, for security professionals.

SaltMiner aggregates and normalizes issues found by many different solutions then enriches that data with business context. SaltMiner gives team members from the C-suite, security and development teams the ability to manage their application security program through customizable views.

The Saltworks SaltMiner Community Edition is a free Penetration Testing Management and Delivery application. It provides teams with custom reporting for potentially thousands of end users, red team support and the ability to manage new and retesting of engagements. SaltMiner Community Edition also allows teams to enforce both testing methodologies and custom vulnerability databases for consistency in engagement delivery.

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This podcast is sponsored by West Networks. Do you need unbreakable network connectivity? West Networks can help! They are a leading provider of Peplink-based SD-WAN solutions. They can help you achieve unbreakable connectivity by utilizing Peplink’s SpeedFusion Bandwidth Bonding technology.

Mobile Health Customers: Since 2012, West Networks has been assisting those in Mobile Health Services space by providing communities with access to life-saving technology.

Mobile Command Unit or First Responders: West Networks works with mobile command field units, like First Responders and new agencies, delivering faster and reliable access to mission critical information all the time.

Mobile Workers: Whether you’re an IT professional who needs to work from anywhere, or a full-time vacationing traveler in the RV community, West Networks can help you stay connected all the time.

For The Enterprise: Large Enterprises can save up to 83% off of costs while expanding communications and reliability beyond a single carrier with West Networks’ Peplink-based SD-WAN solutions. We can help you replace expensive MPLS connections with SpeedFusion Site-to-Site Unbreakable VPN technology.

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🤝 The ability for competitors to come together and co-mingle in the goal of sharing PEPLINK information and making the community bigger is something you don't see anywhere else. 🚀 5G and Starlink are the future of fixed wireless, potentially causing an industry upsetter. 🤑 Peplink Tech Summit 2023 saved one and a half million dollars in six bucks by implementing five MBX HD fours in just three days.

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This podcast is sponsored by Saltworks Security. For almost 10 years, Saltworks Security has delivered world class application security services and products, designed to help enterprises secure their applications from policy to production in an ever-changing security landscape. They are the makers of Saltworks SaltMiner, an application security management platform, designed by security professionals, for security professionals.

SaltMiner aggregates and normalizes issues found by many different solutions then enriches that data with business context. SaltMiner gives team members from the C-suite, security and development teams the ability to manage their application security program through customizable views.

The Saltworks SaltMiner Community Edition is a free Penetration Testing Management and Delivery application. It provides teams with custom reporting for potentially thousands of end users, red team support and the ability to manage new and retesting of engagements. SaltMiner Community Edition also allows teams to enforce both testing methodologies and custom vulnerability databases for consistency in engagement delivery.

https://bit.ly/smcsaltworks

This podcast is sponsored by West Networks. Do you need unbreakable network connectivity? West Networks can help! They are a leading provider of Peplink-based SD-WAN solutions. They can help you achieve unbreakable connectivity by utilizing Peplink’s SpeedFusion Bandwidth Bonding technology.

Mobile Health Customers: Since 2012, West Networks has been assisting those in Mobile Health Services space by providing communities with access to life-saving technology.

Mobile Command Unit or First Responders: West Networks works with mobile command field units, like First Responders and new agencies, delivering faster and reliable access to mission critical information all the time.

Mobile Workers: Whether you're an IT professional who needs to work from anywhere, or a full-time vacationing traveler in the RV community, West Networks can help you stay connected all the time.

For The Enterprise: Large Enterprises can save up to 83% off of costs while expanding communications and reliability beyond a single carrier with West Networks' Peplink-based SD-WAN solutions. We can help you replace expensive MPLS connections with SpeedFusion Site-to-Site Unbreakable VPN technology.

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Think your Database is fast? How does it measure up? The database market is constantly evolving with new technologies and options, and it is crucial for clients to make decisions based on specific needs and measurements rather than relying solely on rankings. Benchmarking and performance baselines of Databases takes a specialized skill set. Find out how Benchant does it, and which database to choose for your platforms and applications.

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⚡️ The database's speed is vital to the overall performance of the system, affecting every other component of the application.

💻 The term "new SQL" was defined by the 451 Research Group in 2015 to refer to distributed SQL systems like CockroachDB and Yugabyte that provide horizontal scalability.

📊 There are significant differences in performance and price performance-wise among different database service offers, making benchmarking crucial for decision-making.

📊 The database choice depends on the specific application needs, such as high write volume and low complex read queries for IoT applications.

⚡️ The performance boost of 50% on a different database system led to the possibility of reducing the number of hardware, providing valuable insights and recommendations to the customer.

🔄 A new category of database systems, like the Vector database, is evolving to keep up with the trends in AI and large language models.

💡 The biggest benefit of AI in databases may not just be performance-related, but also in autotuning and potentially other uses.

📊 Skilling up people and keeping knowledge in-house is crucial for database performance and maintenance.

This podcast is sponsored by OpenText - the Information Company. We power and protect information. Our purpose is to elevate every person and every organization to gain the information advantage. OpenText works to power the ubiquitous information around us to elevate everyone. We strive to help customers simplify their systems with frictionless automation and equip them to thrive and grow in a digital world. The LoadRunner family is one of many solutions areas where OpenText can help. Did you know that the LoadRunner family has the largest community of load testing practitioners in the world? Join the community at http://bit.ly/435Y5Po

Performance Engineering The LoadRunner Family Page:

https://www.microfocus.com/en-us/portfolio/performance-engineering/overview

Performance Playlist (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlUdEXI83_XoQrAsCj2A92v5AmXqVfoIO

This podcast is sponsored by West Networks. Do you need unbreakable network connectivity? West Networks can help! They are a leading provider of Peplink-based SD-WAN solutions. They can help you achieve unbreakable connectivity by utilizing Peplink’s SpeedFusion Bandwidth Bonding technology.

Mobile Health Customers: Since 2012, West Networks has been assisting those in Mobile Health Services space by providing communities with access to life-saving technology.

Mobile Command Unit or First Responders: West Networks works with mobile command field units, like First Responders and new agencies, delivering faster and reliable access to mission critical information all the time.

Mobile Workers: Whether you're an IT professional who needs to work from anywhere, or a full-time vacationing traveler in the RV community, West Networks can help you stay connected all the time.

For The Enterprise: Large Enterprises can save up to 83% off of costs while expanding communications and reliability beyond a single carrier with West Networks' Peplink-based SD-WAN solutions. We can help you replace expensive MPLS connections with SpeedFusion Site-to-Site Unbreakable VPN technology.

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📈 The session delves into the different types of load tests, their purpose, and the expected output and value they bring, with the intention of sharing real-life stories and graphs in an engaging and humorous manner. 📈 Best practice suggests that applications should be able to handle double the number of concurrent users they anticipate as their worst-case scenario. 💥 Running a SOAK test or volume test for a long period of time, such as 8-20 hours, can help identify resource consumption and potential problems in production that may take months to discover otherwise. 🤔 Finding and fixing problems early in the testing process is crucial to avoid issues in production. 📈 The speaker mentions catching a top time transaction that is heavy and is expected to worsen as the test ramps up, highlighting the importance of monitoring and addressing performance issues. 🎵 Conducting performance testing and load testing as a repeatable process can help identify issues early in the software development lifecycle and provide significant value to the company. 💡 Providing additional metrics and working with the back-end team to quickly resolve issues found during load testing adds more value to a company than just providing basic metrics and passing the problem along.

Here’s another video about load testing fundamentals.

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This podcast is sponsored by Saltworks Security. For almost 10 years, Saltworks Security has delivered world class application security services and products, designed to help enterprises secure their applications from policy to production in an ever-changing security landscape. They are the makers of Saltworks SaltMiner, an application security management platform, designed by security professionals, for security professionals.

SaltMiner aggregates and normalizes issues found by many different solutions then enriches that data with business context. SaltMiner gives team members from the C-suite, security and development teams the ability to manage their application security program through customizable views.

The Saltworks SaltMiner Community Edition is a free Penetration Testing Management and Delivery application. It provides teams with custom reporting for potentially thousands of end users, red team support and the ability to manage new and retesting of engagements. SaltMiner Community Edition also allows teams to enforce both testing methodologies and custom vulnerability databases for consistency in engagement delivery.

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This podcast is sponsored by West Networks. Do you need unbreakable network connectivity? West Networks can help! They are a leading provider of Peplink-based SD-WAN solutions. They can help you achieve unbreakable connectivity by utilizing Peplink’s SpeedFusion Bandwidth Bonding technology.

Mobile Health Customers: Since 2012, West Networks has been assisting those in Mobile Health Services space by providing communities with access to life-saving technology.

Mobile Command Unit or First Responders: West Networks works with mobile command field units, like First Responders and new agencies, delivering faster and reliable access to mission critical information all the time.

Mobile Workers: Whether you’re an IT professional who needs to work from anywhere, or a full-time vacationing traveler in the RV community, West Networks can help you stay connected all the time.

For The Enterprise: Large Enterprises can save up to 83% off of costs while expanding communications and reliability beyond a single carrier with West Networks’ Peplink-based SD-WAN solutions. We can help you replace expensive MPLS connections with SpeedFusion Site-to-Site Unbreakable VPN technology.

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🎯 “Load testing is a crucial aspect of software engineering and modern IT, encompassing testing, tuning, observability, security, AI, and more.” 🎸 “Load testing like a rockstar: what are those basics that make up the process of load testing an application and then what goes into the types of tests that you run and what type of output should you expect?” 💡 Load testing is a foolproof method that can be applied to any project, regardless of the development approach, and has a track record of preventing production failures. 🎶 A load test is like a symphony of destruction, an organized chaos that helps determine if an application can handle the intended user population. 📋 Focusing on one objective for a load test is crucial to ensure effective testing and accurate results. 💻 Designing automation that takes into account dynamic data, such as filling out forms with different information, can help simulate real-life scenarios and test the back end’s ability to handle varying inputs. 💡 Load testing should start with tuning before running the test to identify and address any potential issues beforehand. 💪 The benchmark test of reaching a thousand concurrent users and holding it for an hour can determine if the system can handle peak load for the rest of the day. Collaboration and Performance Issue Resolution 🕵 Combining load testing timings with infrastructure, application, and database monitoring allows for better identification of performance issues in different tiers of an application. 🔄 Collaborating with professionals from different domains, like database administrators, can be crucial in resolving performance issues discovered during load testing.

Here is another podcast on Load Testing.

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This podcast is sponsored by OpenText – the Information Company. We power and protect information. Our purpose is to elevate every person and every organization to gain the information advantage. OpenText works to power the ubiquitous information around us to elevate everyone. We strive to help customers simplify their systems with frictionless automation and equip them to thrive and grow in a digital world. The LoadRunner family is one of many solutions areas where OpenText can help. Did you know that the LoadRunner family has the largest community of load testing practitioners in the world? Join the community at http://bit.ly/435Y5Po

Performance Engineering The LoadRunner Family Page:

https://www.microfocus.com/en-us/portfolio/performance-engineering/overview

Performance Playlist (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlUdEXI83_XoQrAsCj2A92v5AmXqVfoIO

This podcast is sponsored by West Networks. Do you need unbreakable network connectivity? West Networks can help! They are a leading provider of Peplink-based SD-WAN solutions. They can help you achieve unbreakable connectivity by utilizing Peplink’s SpeedFusion Bandwidth Bonding technology.

Mobile Health Customers: Since 2012, West Networks has been assisting those in Mobile Health Services space by providing communities with access to life-saving technology.

Mobile Command Unit or First Responders: West Networks works with mobile command field units, like First Responders and new agencies, delivering faster and reliable access to mission critical information all the time.

Mobile Workers: Whether you’re an IT professional who needs to work from anywhere, or a full-time vacationing traveler in the RV community, West Networks can help you stay connected all the time.

For The Enterprise: Large Enterprises can save up to 83% off of costs while expanding communications and reliability beyond a single carrier with West Networks’ Peplink-based SD-WAN solutions. We can help you replace expensive MPLS connections with SpeedFusion Site-to-Site Unbreakable VPN technology.

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🤔 The use of Monitoring as Code has the potential to revolutionize synthetic monitoring, allowing for more efficient and scalable monitoring practices. 🚀 “Monitoring as code” is a concept that enables continuous monitoring of APIs and websites using synthetic users, driven by open source technologies like Playwright and JavaScript/TypeScript. 🛒 Synthetic monitoring aims to provide a clear signal of whether a system is running and working from an end user perspective, particularly important for e-commerce companies to ensure their online shops are functioning properly for customers. 🚀 “Monitoring as code enables monitoring to become a team sport, where all configurations, alerts, dashboards, and private locations can be checked into a repository.” 💡 Synthetic monitoring allows for early bug detection before real users experience them, ensuring crucial transactions are tested and catching issues before they become a problem. 🌐 Synthetic monitoring involves instantiating a real browser that runs like a user, allowing for more accurate metrics and insights. 🔄 Monitoring As Code enables users to identify the specific code changes that may have influenced website performance, helping them make informed decisions about rolling back or improving their deployments. 🚀 Checkly aims to go even deeper in synthetic monitoring by adding multi-step API checks and enhanced playwright support, making it easier for various industries to test their systems and improve their monitoring capabilities.

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This podcast is sponsored by Saltworks Security. For almost 10 years, Saltworks Security has delivered world class application security services and products, designed to help enterprises secure their applications from policy to production in an ever-changing security landscape. They are the makers of Saltworks SaltMiner, an application security management platform, designed by security professionals, for security professionals.

SaltMiner aggregates and normalizes issues found by many different solutions then enriches that data with business context. SaltMiner gives team members from the C-suite, security and development teams the ability to manage their application security program through customizable views.

The Saltworks SaltMiner Community Edition is a free Penetration Testing Management and Delivery application. It provides teams with custom reporting for potentially thousands of end users, red team support and the ability to manage new and retesting of engagements. SaltMiner Community Edition also allows teams to enforce both testing methodologies and custom vulnerability databases for consistency in engagement delivery.

https://bit.ly/smcsaltworks

This podcast is sponsored by West Networks. Do you need unbreakable network connectivity? West Networks can help! They are a leading provider of Peplink-based SD-WAN solutions. They can help you achieve unbreakable connectivity by utilizing Peplink’s SpeedFusion Bandwidth Bonding technology.

Mobile Health Customers: Since 2012, West Networks has been assisting those in Mobile Health Services space by providing communities with access to life-saving technology.

Mobile Command Unit or First Responders: West Networks works with mobile command field units, like First Responders and new agencies, delivering faster and reliable access to mission critical information all the time.

Mobile Workers: Whether you’re an IT professional who needs to work from anywhere, or a full-time vacationing traveler in the RV community, West Networks can help you stay connected all the time.

For The Enterprise: Large Enterprises can save up to 83% off of costs while expanding communications and reliability beyond a single carrier with West Networks’ Peplink-based SD-WAN solutions. We can help you replace expensive MPLS connections with SpeedFusion Site-to-Site Unbreakable VPN technology.

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GUEST: Todd Gardner, CEO of Request Metrics LINKEDIN PROFILE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/toddhgardner/

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https://trackjs.com/

🌐 Real user monitoring and synthetic monitoring are important tools for monitoring website performance and ensuring a positive user experience. 🌍 Real user monitoring allows website owners to understand the performance of their site across different geographic regions, taking into account factors like latency and other variables that may affect user experience. 🔄 Todd Gardner highlights the importance of listening to customer feedback and adapting the product accordingly, which can lead to a more successful and agile company. ⚡ The emphasis on core web vital scores and page speed as a page rank factor has become a big concern for content publishers and e-commerce sites.

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This podcast is sponsored by OpenText – the Information Company. We power and protect information. Our purpose is to elevate every person and every organization to gain the information advantage. OpenText works to power the ubiquitous information around us to elevate everyone. We strive to help customers simplify their systems with frictionless automation and equip them to thrive and grow in a digital world. The LoadRunner family is one of many solutions areas where OpenText can help. Did you know that the LoadRunner family has the largest community of load testing practitioners in the world? Join the community at http://bit.ly/435Y5Po

Performance Engineering The LoadRunner Family Page:

https://www.microfocus.com/en-us/portfolio/performance-engineering/overview

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This podcast is sponsored by West Networks. Do you need unbreakable network connectivity? West Networks can help! They are a leading provider of Peplink-based SD-WAN solutions. They can help you achieve unbreakable connectivity by utilizing Peplink’s SpeedFusion Bandwidth Bonding technology.

Mobile Health Customers: Since 2012, West Networks has been assisting those in Mobile Health Services space by providing communities with access to life-saving technology.

Mobile Command Unit or First Responders: West Networks works with mobile command field units, like First Responders and new agencies, delivering faster and reliable access to mission critical information all the time.

Mobile Workers: Whether you’re an IT professional who needs to work from anywhere, or a full-time vacationing traveler in the RV community, West Networks can help you stay connected all the time.

For The Enterprise: Large Enterprises can save up to 83% off of costs while expanding communications and reliability beyond a single carrier with West Networks’ Peplink-based SD-WAN solutions. We can help you replace expensive MPLS connections with SpeedFusion Site-to-Site Unbreakable VPN technology.

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🌍 Open source observability platforms provide a cost-effective alternative to commercial tools, addressing the issue of tool sprawl and allowing for more efficient data capture. 🤔 Open source products that provide all metrics, traces, and logs in one place can greatly assist developers in debugging and resolving production issues more efficiently. 🌍 Signals is one of the most advanced products that natively supports open telemetry, making it a valuable tool for those looking to utilize open telemetry in their applications. 🚀 The goal of products in this domain is to provide teams with all the data they need in a format that allows them to quickly reach conclusions and fix issues fast.

This podcast is sponsored by Saltworks Security. For almost 10 years, Saltworks Security has delivered world class application security services and products, designed to help enterprises secure their applications from policy to production in an ever-changing security landscape. They are the makers of Saltworks SaltMiner, an application security management platform, designed by security professionals, for security professionals.

SaltMiner aggregates and normalizes issues found by many different solutions then enriches that data with business context. SaltMiner gives team members from the C-suite, security and development teams the ability to manage their application security program through customizable views.

The Saltworks SaltMiner Community Edition is a free Penetration Testing Management and Delivery application. It provides teams with custom reporting for potentially thousands of end users, red team support and the ability to manage new and retesting of engagements. SaltMiner Community Edition also allows teams to enforce both testing methodologies and custom vulnerability databases for consistency in engagement delivery.

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This podcast is sponsored by West Networks. Do you need unbreakable network connectivity? West Networks can help! They are a leading provider of Peplink-based SD-WAN solutions. They can help you achieve unbreakable connectivity by utilizing Peplink’s SpeedFusion Bandwidth Bonding technology.

Mobile Health Customers: Since 2012, West Networks has been assisting those in Mobile Health Services space by providing communities with access to life-saving technology.

Mobile Command Unit or First Responders: West Networks works with mobile command field units, like First Responders and new agencies, delivering faster and reliable access to mission critical information all the time.

Mobile Workers: Whether you’re an IT professional who needs to work from anywhere, or a full-time vacationing traveler in the RV community, West Networks can help you stay connected all the time.

For The Enterprise: Large Enterprises can save up to 83% off of costs while expanding communications and reliability beyond a single carrier with West Networks’ Peplink-based SD-WAN solutions. We can help you replace expensive MPLS connections with SpeedFusion Site-to-Site Unbreakable VPN technology.

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🚀 Frederick Branik discusses the benefits of using eBPF for isolating and fixing poor performing code, highlighting its potential for improving performance engineering.

🔄 eBPF is uniquely positioned to capture profiling data, making it a valuable addition to tools like Prometheus for performance analysis and optimization.

📊 eBPF allows us to capture stack traces and build statistics in real-time, providing valuable insights into the execution of programs.

💡 eBPF provides a flexible framework for instrumentation, allowing developers to create custom hooks and perform a wide range of tasks, similar to traditional instrumentation methods.

💡 eBPF allows developers to measure various aspects of their code, such as RPC calls and memory allocations, providing flexibility in performance profiling.

💡 eBPF enables observability without instrumentation, automatically capturing latency from specific network packets, such as MySQL queries, offering a new approach to performance profiling.

🤔 The use of eBPF as a technology for building a profiler allows for selective data collection, ensuring that only the necessary data is gathered, reducing unnecessary overhead.

🗣️ Customers have expressed that eBPF is the only way to achieve continuous profiling, highlighting its importance and effectiveness.

Polar Signals Cloud is an always-on, zero-instrumentation continuous profiling product that points you to where in your code CPU time is spent, and helps you maintain an efficient system in the long run. The product is based on the open-source Parca project and is now generally available!

https://www.polarsignals.com/

https://www.parca.dev/docs/overview/

This podcast is sponsored by OpenText - the Information Company. We power and protect information. Our purpose is to elevate every person and every organization to gain the information advantage. OpenText works to power the ubiquitous information around us to elevate everyone. We strive to help customers simplify their systems with frictionless automation and equip them to thrive and grow in a digital world. The LoadRunner family is one of many solutions areas where OpenText can help. Did you know that the LoadRunner family has the largest community of load testing practitioners in the world? Join the community at http://bit.ly/435Y5Po

This podcast is sponsored by West Networks. Do you need unbreakable network connectivity? West Networks can help! They are a leading provider of Peplink-based SD-WAN solutions. They can help you achieve unbreakable connectivity by utilizing Peplink’s SpeedFusion Bandwidth Bonding technology.

Mobile Health Customers: Since 2012, West Networks has been assisting those in Mobile Health Services space by providing communities with access to life-saving technology.

Mobile Command Unit or First Responders: West Networks works with mobile command field units, like First Responders and new agencies, delivering faster and reliable access to mission critical information all the time.

Mobile Workers: Whether you're an IT professional who needs to work from anywhere, or a full-time vacationing traveler in the RV community, West Networks can help you stay connected all the time.

For The Enterprise: Large Enterprises can save up to 83% off of costs while expanding communications and reliability beyond a single carrier with West Networks' Peplink-based SD-WAN solutions. We can help you replace expensive MPLS connections with SpeedFusion Site-to-Site Unbreakable VPN technology.

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NearEDGE is a solution for managing and troubleshooting compute infrastructure and software assets. It is designed to be secure, reliable, and easy to use.

https://nearedge.net/Solution/infrastructure

NearEDGE consists of two components:

• The endpoint component is a lightweight agent that runs on the endpoint device. It is responsible for collecting data about the endpoint and sending it to the control center.
• The control center is a web-based application that provides a central location for managing and troubleshooting endpoints.

NearEDGE is designed to be agnostic to the deployment environment. It can be deployed on any device that has an internet connection, including physical servers, virtual machines, and cloud-based instances.

🎯The future of remote access for developers is a topic of discussion, covering various aspects such as security, AI, testing, tuning, optimization, and observability.

🌐There is a need for a lightweight end point that can facilitate remote access in a zero trust environment, allowing developers to efficiently and effectively access resources.

💻The shift towards software-based solutions has led Near Edge to focus on addressing the challenges faced by developers in remote access and management of physical computers.

🤖The agent software used in remote workloads is extremely CICD friendly, allowing for efficient continuous integration and continuous deployment processes.

💻By intercepting native TCP connections, developers can seamlessly use familiar tools like SSH and VS code to access and operate various workloads.

⚙️ The ability to set breakpoints and debug code in real-time using a debugger enhances the efficiency and effectiveness of the development process.

💻Virtual tapping goes beyond traditional network tapping by allowing developers to interact live with applications inside the container, including profiling and other capabilities.

🔮05:32 NearEdge offers a solution called NOAH that allows developers to securely access their software and workloads remotely, reducing the need for extensive deployment involvement. Expand

🔑07:51 Developers can remotely access machines, use tools like VS code and wire shark, and easily find IP addresses without needing to understand the underlying workings by utilizing a gateway for TCP connection transport. Expand

📺11:12 Developers can now debug Python code in containers using VS code without a special agent or VPN, as demonstrated in the video. Expand

🔒13:42 The future of remote access for developers allows for secure and protected data transfer, with control remaining with the infrastructure team and enabling live interaction with applications. Expand

🔒18:01 This solution enables software deployment without internet access by utilizing reverse and forward proxies, allowing for management of the software while restricting traffic to only move through the proxies. Expand

👀19:56 The speaker asks for feedback on whether remote access to software assets in the cloud is the future and encourages viewers to suggest topics for future shows.

This podcast is sponsored by Saltworks Security. For almost 10 years, Saltworks Security has delivered world class application security services and products, designed to help enterprises secure their applications from policy to production in an ever-changing security landscape. They are the makers of Saltworks SaltMiner, an application security management platform, designed by security professionals, for security professionals.

SaltMiner aggregates and normalizes issues found by many different solutions then enriches that data with business context. SaltMiner gives team members from the C-suite, security and development teams the ability to manage their application security program through customizable views.

The Saltworks SaltMiner Community Edition is a free Penetration Testing Management and Delivery application. It provides teams with custom reporting for potentially thousands of end users, red team support and the ability to manage new and retesting of engagements. SaltMiner Community Edition also allows teams to enforce both testing methodologies and custom vulnerability databases for consistency in engagement delivery. https://bit.ly/smcsaltworks

This podcast is sponsored by West Networks. Do you need unbreakable network connectivity? West Networks can help! They are a leading provider of Peplink-based SD-WAN solutions. They can help you achieve unbreakable connectivity by utilizing Peplink’s SpeedFusion Bandwidth Bonding technology.

Mobile Health Customers: Since 2012, West Networks has been assisting those in Mobile Health Services space by providing communities with access to life-saving technology.

Mobile Command Unit or First Responders: West Networks works with mobile command field units, like First Responders and new agencies, delivering faster and reliable access to mission critical information all the time.

Mobile Workers: Whether you're an IT professional who needs to work from anywhere, or a full-time vacationing traveler in the RV community, West Networks can help you stay connected all the time.

For The Enterprise: Large Enterprises can save up to 83% off of costs while expanding communications and reliability beyond a single carrier with West Networks' Peplink-based SD-WAN solutions. We can help you replace expensive MPLS connections with SpeedFusion Site-to-Site Unbreakable VPN technology.

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☁️ Load testing and performance engineering have become more important as industries move to the cloud, agile development, and continuous deployments.

👁️ Continuous testing and monitoring are essential in this environment.

🧩 There is no one-size-fits-all approach to continuous performance testing, as it requires new methods, statistical analysis, and AI.

🎓 The academic community needs to be more involved in developing new solutions for continuous performance testing.

🗓️ There are a few academic conferences devoted to performance, but they are not enough.

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This podcast is sponsored by OpenText - the Information Company. We power and protect information. Our purpose is to elevate every person and every organization to gain the information advantage. OpenText works to power the ubiquitous information around us to elevate everyone. We strive to help customers simplify their systems with frictionless automation and equip them to thrive and grow in a digital world. The LoadRunner family is one of many solutions areas where OpenText can help. Did you know that the LoadRunner family has the largest community of load testing practitioners in the world? Join the community at http://bit.ly/435Y5Po

This podcast is sponsored by West Networks. Do you need unbreakable network connectivity? West Networks can help! They are a leading provider of Peplink-based SD-WAN solutions. They can help you achieve unbreakable connectivity by utilizing Peplink’s SpeedFusion Bandwidth Bonding technology.

**Mobile Health Customers:**

Since 2012, West Networks has been assisting those in Mobile Health Services space by providing communities with access to life-saving technology.

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West Networks works with mobile command field units, like First Responders and new agencies, delivering faster and reliable access to mission critical information all the time.

**Mobile Workers:**

Whether you're an IT professional who needs to work from anywhere, or a full-time vacationing traveler in the RV community, West Networks can help you stay connected all the time.

**For The Enterprise:**

Large Enterprises can save up to 83% off of costs while expanding communications and reliability beyond a single carrier with West Networks' Peplink-based SD-WAN solutions. We can help you replace expensive MPLS connections with SpeedFusion Site-to-Site Unbreakable VPN technology.

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GUEST: Tim Chase LINKEDIN PROFILE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/timchase2/

Security Classes by Tim Chase on LinkedIn:

DevSecOps Foundations: https://www.linkedin.com/learning/devops-foundations-devsecops

The rise of continuous application security: https://www.linkedin.com/learning/devsecops-continuous-application-security/the-rise-of-continuous-application-security

Latest Blog from the Cloud Security Alliance: https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/blog/2023/08/22/new-research-suggests-unseen-benefits-of-devsecops/

This podcast is sponsored by Saltworks Security. For almost 10 years, Saltworks Security has delivered world class application security services and products, designed to help enterprises secure their applications from policy to production in an ever-changing security landscape. They are the makers of Saltworks SaltMiner, an application security management platform, designed by security professionals, for security professionals.

SaltMiner aggregates and normalizes issues found by many different solutions then enriches that data with business context. SaltMiner gives team members from the C-suite, security and development teams the ability to manage their application security program through customizable views.

The Saltworks SaltMiner Community Edition is a free Penetration Testing Management and Delivery application. It provides teams with custom reporting for potentially thousands of end users, red team support and the ability to manage new and retesting of engagements. SaltMiner Community Edition also allows teams to enforce both testing methodologies and custom vulnerability databases for consistency in engagement delivery.

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GUEST:  Jakub (Kuba) Dering LINKEDIN PROFILE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kuba-dering/

JMeter Throughput Shaping Timer plugin: https://jmeter-plugins.org/wiki/ThroughputShapingTimer/

Jakub's Track Talk at AutomationSTAR: https://automation.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/event/2023/performance-testing-you-didnt-know-your-automation-test-does/

This podcast is sponsored by OpenText - the Information Company. We power and protect information. Our purpose is to elevate every person and every organization to gain the information advantage. OpenText works to power the ubiquitous information around us to elevate everyone. We strive to help customers simplify their systems with frictionless automation and equip them to thrive and grow in a digital world. The LoadRunner family is one of many solutions areas where OpenText can help. Did you know that the LoadRunner family has the largest community of load testing practitioners in the world? Join the community at http://bit.ly/435Y5Po

Performance Engineering The LoadRunner Family Page:

https://www.microfocus.com/en-us/portfolio/performance-engineering/overview

Performance Playlist (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlUdEXI83_XoQrAsCj2A92v5AmXqVfoIO

GUEST: Eli Birger LINKEDIN PROFILE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eli-birger-44aa8717/

Perfect Scale: https://www.perfectscale.io/

OpenAI - Scaling Kubernetes to 7500 Nodes: https://openai.com/research/scaling-kubernetes-to-7500-nodes

This podcast is sponsored by Saltworks Security. For almost 10 years, Saltworks Security has delivered world class application security services and products, designed to help enterprises secure their applications from policy to production in an ever-changing security landscape. They are the makers of Saltworks SaltMiner, an application security management platform, designed by security professionals, for security professionals.

SaltMiner aggregates and normalizes issues found by many different solutions then enriches that data with business context. SaltMiner gives team members from the C-suite, security and development teams the ability to manage their application security program through customizable views.

The Saltworks SaltMiner Community Edition is a free Penetration Testing Management and Delivery application. It provides teams with custom reporting for potentially thousands of end users, red team support and the ability to manage new and retesting of engagements. SaltMiner Community Edition also allows teams to enforce both testing methodologies and custom vulnerability databases for consistency in engagement delivery.

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GUEST:  Ken Ahrens, CEO of Speedscale

LINKEDIN PROFILE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kahrens/

Speedscale Service Mocking https://docs.speedscale.com/concepts/service_mocking/

Wiremock https://wiremock.org/

OpenText Service Virtualization https://www.microfocus.com/en-us/products/service-virtualization/overview 

This podcast is sponsored by OpenText - the Information Company. We power and protect information. Our purpose is to elevate every person and every organization to gain the information advantage. OpenText works to power the ubiquitous information around us to elevate everyone. We strive to help customers simplify their systems with frictionless automation and equip them to thrive and grow in a digital world. The LoadRunner family is one of many solutions areas where OpenText can help. Did you know that the LoadRunner family has the largest community of load testing practitioners in the world? Join the community at http://bit.ly/435Y5Po

Performance Engineering The LoadRunner Family Page:

https://www.microfocus.com/en-us/portfolio/performance-engineering/overview

Performance Playlist (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlUdEXI83_XoQrAsCj2A92v5AmXqVfoIO

New Jersey Cyber Fireside: http://www.cyberfiresidenj.com/ Tributech - https://www.tributech.io/

This podcast is sponsored by Saltworks Security. For almost 10 years, Saltworks Security has delivered world class application security services and products, designed to help enterprises secure their applications from policy to production in an ever-changing security landscape.  They are the makers of Saltworks SaltMiner, an application security management platform, designed by security professionals, for security professionals.

SaltMiner aggregates and normalizes issues found by many different solutions then enriches that data with business context. SaltMiner gives team members from the C-suite, security and development teams the ability to manage their application security program through customizable views. 

The Saltworks SaltMiner Community Edition is a free Penetration Testing Management and Delivery application. It provides teams with custom reporting for potentially thousands of end users, red team support and the ability to manage new and retesting of engagements.  SaltMiner Community Edition also allows teams to enforce both testing methodologies and custom vulnerability databases for consistency in engagement delivery.   https://bit.ly/smcsaltworks

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Testgrid: https://testgrid.io/

This podcast is sponsored by OpenText - the Information Company. We power and protect information. Our purpose is to elevate every person and every organization to gain the information advantage. OpenText works to power the ubiquitous information around us to elevate everyone. We strive to help customers simplify their systems with frictionless automation and equip them to thrive and grow in a digital world. The LoadRunner family is one of many solutions areas where OpenText can help. Did you know that the LoadRunner family has the largest community of load testing practitioners in the world? Join the community at http://bit.ly/435Y5Po

Performance Engineering The LoadRunner Family Page:

https://www.microfocus.com/en-us/portfolio/performance-engineering/overview

Performance budgets are an important control mechanism to keep web applications fast and efficient. Tammy Everts shares how to set them up and apply the latest practices for great results.

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• Tammy Everts Website: https://tammyeverts.wordpress.com/
• Performance budgets -https://www.speedcurve.com/blog/performance-budgets/
• Performance budgets, pragmatically - https://csswizardry.com/2020/01/performance-budgets-pragmatically/
• Page bloat - https://www.speedcurve.com/blog/page-bloat-web-performance/
• Performance inequality gap - https://infrequently.org/2022/12/performance-baseline-2023/
• Performance plateau - https://www.speedcurve.com/blog/web-performance-poverty-line/
• WPOstats - https://wpostats.com/

This podcast is sponsored by Saltworks Security. For almost 10 years, Saltworks Security has delivered world class application security services and products, designed to help enterprises secure their applications from policy to production in an ever-changing security landscape. They are the makers of Saltworks Saltminer, an application security management platform, designed by security professionals, for security professionals.

SaltMiner aggregates and normalizes issues found by many different solutions then enriches that data with business context. SaltMiner gives team members from the C-suite, security and development teams the ability to manage their application security program through customizable views.

The Saltworks SaltMiner Community Edition is a free Penetration Testing Management and Delivery application. It provides teams with custom reporting for potentially thousands of end users, red team support and the ability to manage new and retesting of engagements. SaltMiner Community Edition also allows teams to enforce both testing methodologies and custom vulnerability databases for consistency in engagement delivery.

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GUEST:  Benjamin Wilms LINKEDIN PROFILE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjamin-wilms/

SteadyBit website: https://steadybit.com/

LoadRunner Chaos Testing for Scenarios: https://admhelp.microfocus.com/lr/en/2023/help/WebHelp/Content/Controller/event_scenarios.htm

This podcast is sponsored by OpenText - the Information Company. We power and protect information. Our purpose is to elevate every person and every organization to gain the information advantage. OpenText works to power the ubiquitous information around us to elevate everyone. We strive to help customers simplify their systems with frictionless automation and equip them to thrive and grow in a digital world. The LoadRunner family is one of many solutions areas where OpenText can help. Did you know that the LoadRunner family has the largest community of load testing practitioners in the world? Join the community at http://bit.ly/435Y5Po

Performance Engineering The LoadRunner Family Page:

https://www.microfocus.com/en-us/portfolio/performance-engineering/overview

Performance Playlist (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlUdEXI83_XoQrAsCj2A92v5AmXqVfoIO

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GUEST:  Dennis Hurst LINKEDIN PROFILE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dennishurst/  

ASPM Overview: https://medium.com/technology-hits/application-security-posture-management-an-overview-895d86d8129d

What is Application Security Posture Management?

https://www.enso.security/what-is-application-security-posture-management

Saltworks SaltMiner:  https://www.saltworks.io/saltminer/

This podcast is sponsored by Saltworks Security. For almost 10 years, Saltworks Security has delivered world class application security services and products, designed to help enterprises secure their applications from policy to production in an ever-changing security landscape.  They are the makers of Saltworks SaltMiner, an application security management platform, designed by security professionals, for security professionals.

SaltMiner aggregates and normalizes issues found by many different solutions then enriches that data with business context. SaltMiner gives team members from the C-suite, security and development teams the ability to manage their application security program through customizable views. 

The Saltworks SaltMiner Community Edition is a free Penetration Testing Management and Delivery application. It provides teams with custom reporting for potentially thousands of end users, red team support and the ability to manage new and retesting of engagements.  SaltMiner Community Edition also allows teams to enforce both testing methodologies and custom vulnerability databases for consistency in engagement delivery.   https://bit.ly/smcsaltworks

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GUEST:  David McLeish LINKEDIN PROFILE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-mcleish-58a9b62/

LoadRunner Professional Help Center https://admhelp.microfocus.com/lr/en/2023/help/WebHelp/Content/Resources/_TopNav/_TopNav_Home.htm   

This podcast is sponsored by OpenText - the Information Company. We power and protect information. Our purpose is to elevate every person and every organization to gain the information advantage. OpenText works to power the ubiquitous information around us to elevate everyone. We strive to help customers simplify their systems with frictionless automation and equip them to thrive and grow in a digital world. The LoadRunner family is one of many solutions areas where OpenText can help. Did you know that the LoadRunner family has the largest community of load testing practitioners in the world? Join the community at http://bit.ly/435Y5Po

Performance Engineering The LoadRunner Family Page:

https://www.microfocus.com/en-us/portfolio/performance-engineering/overview

GUEST:  Scott Sumner, CMO at Kadiska LINKEDIN PROFILE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scosumner/

Kadiska: https://kadiska.com/

Free Trial URL: http://kadiska.com/try

This podcast is sponsored by Saltworks Security. For almost 10 years, Saltworks Security has delivered world class application security services and products, designed to help enterprises secure their applications from policy to production in an ever-changing security landscape.  They are the makers of Saltworks Saltminer, an application security management platform, designed by security professionals, for security professionals.

SaltMiner aggregates and normalizes issues found by many different solutions then enriches that data with business context. SaltMiner gives team members from the C-suite, security and development teams the ability to manage their application security program through customizable views. 

The Saltworks SaltMiner Community Edition is a free Penetration Testing Management and Delivery application. It provides teams with custom reporting for potentially thousands of end users, red team support and the ability to manage new and retesting of engagements.  SaltMiner Community Edition also allows teams to enforce both testing methodologies and custom vulnerability databases for consistency in engagement delivery.   https://bit.ly/smcsaltworks

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TestMu 2023 Conference Site: https://www.lambdatest.com/testmuconf-2023

LambdaTest Site https://www.lambdatest.com/  

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SaltMiner aggregates and normalizes issues found by many different solutions then enriches that data with business context. SaltMiner gives team members from the C-suite, security and development teams the ability to manage their application security program through customizable views. 

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GUEST: David Tattersall

Intergal FusionReactor has added OpsPilot AI, an integration with Chat GPT-4

OpsPilot AI Press Release Langchain

This podcast is sponsored by OpenText - the Information Company. We power and protect information. Our purpose is to elevate every person and every organization to gain the information advantage. OpenText works to power the ubiquitous information around us to elevate everyone. We strive to help customers simplify their systems with frictionless automation and equip them to thrive and grow in a digital world. The LoadRunner family is one of many solutions areas where OpenText can help. Did you know that the LoadRunner family has the largest community of load testing practitioners in the world? Join the community at http://bit.ly/435Y5Po

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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 allows for later retrieval, manipulation, processing, or reacting from other systems. Netflix, Uber, LinkedIn and many of the Fortune 500 are using Kafka. There are many use cases, but they all require high availability and low latency . If there ever was a use case for load testing, this is the one. So how do we approach load testing? 

YouTube video - "Apache Kafka in 5 minutes" YouTube video - "Apache Kafka in 6 Minutes" Apache Kafka documentation LoadRunner Kafka protocol LoadRunner Kafka test Sponsors

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Site: https://bencher.dev

GitHub: https://github.com/bencherdev/bencher

Prior benchmarking efforts: https://bencher.dev/docs/reference/prior-art

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Thales 2023 Report on Ransomware: https://www.thalesgroup.com/en/worldwide/security/press_release/2023-thales-data-threat-report-reveals-increase-ransomware-attacks

https://www.blackfog.com/why-are-ransomware-attacks-on-the-rise/

7 Steps to Mitigate: https://www.cisecurity.org/insights/blog/7-steps-to-help-prevent-limit-the-impact-of-ransomware

This podcast is sponsored by Saltworks Security. For almost 10 years, Saltworks Security has delivered world class application security services and products, designed to help enterprises secure their applications from policy to production in an ever-changing security landscape.  They are the makers of Saltworks Saltminer, an application security management platform, designed by security professionals, for security professionals.

SaltMiner aggregates and normalizes issues found by many different solutions then enriches that data with business context. SaltMiner gives team members from the C-suite, security and development teams the ability to manage their application security program through customizable views. 

The Saltworks SaltMiner Community Edition is a free Penetration Testing Management and Delivery application. It provides teams with custom reporting for potentially thousands of end users, red team support and the ability to manage new and retesting of engagements.  SaltMiner Community Edition also allows teams to enforce both testing methodologies and custom vulnerability databases for consistency in engagement delivery.   https://bit.ly/smcsaltworks

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/honeycomb-taps-chatgpt-to-simplify-observability/

New Relic introduces Grok, a generative AI assistant: 

https://siliconangle.com/2023/03/15/new-relic-brings-instant-observability-openais-gpt-3/

https://siliconangle.com/2023/05/02/new-relic-debuts-grok-generative-ai-assistant-observability-operations/

https://venturebeat.com/ai/new-relic-launches-grok-generative-ai-assistant/

Elastic Elasticsearch Relevance Engine Will Fuel Generative AI Models

https://www.techdemand.io/news/tech-news/artificial-intelligence-news/elastics-elasticsearch-relevance-engine-will-fuel-generative-ai-models/

Dynatrace Causal AI

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevemcdowell/2023/02/19/dynatrace-blends-ai-automation---observability-with-new-offerings/?sh=6a5fb6757fe7

https://www.dynatrace.com/news/blog/productivity-innovation-with-chatgpt-generative-ai/

Datadog

https://investors.datadoghq.com/news-releases/news-release-details/datadog-integrates-openai-chatgpt-help-organizations-monitor-ai

Sponsors

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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?

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GUEST: Joey Hendricks, Senior Performance Engineer LINKEDIN PROFILE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joey-hendricks/

Scott interviews Joey Hendricks on using statistics and raw load test data to create visualizations and reports that make it easier for management and decision makers to understand.

Managers are usually focused more on cost. This is why cost should be a quality gate to control the application efficiency as well as performance.

Joey's Github page: https://github.com/JoeyHendricks

This podcast is sponsored by Saltworks Security. For almost 10 years, Saltworks Security has delivered world class application security services and products, designed to help enterprises secure their applications from policy to production in an ever-changing security landscape. They are the makers of Saltworks Saltminer, an application security management platform, designed by security professionals, for security professionals.

SaltMiner aggregates and normalizes issues found by many different solutions then enriches that data with business context. SaltMiner gives team members from the C-suite, security and development teams the ability to manage their application security program through customizable views.

The Saltworks SaltMiner Community Edition is a free Penetration Testing Management and Delivery application. It provides teams with custom reporting for potentially thousands of end users, red team support and the ability to manage new and retesting of engagements. SaltMiner Community Edition also allows teams to enforce both testing methodologies and custom vulnerability databases for consistency in engagement delivery.

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Lee Barnes Twitter: @USI_LeeBarnes Forte Group: Fortegrp.com

GUEST: Lee Barnes, Chief Quality Officer at Forte Group LINKEDIN PROFILE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leebarnes/

Continuous Performance presentation at Inflectracon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ffotEzYYkc

This podcast is sponsored by Micro Focus and LoadRunner solutions. Performance matters. Did you know that LoadRunner solutions have the largest community of practitioners? Join the community at http://bit.ly/435Y5Po

Performance Engineering The LoadRunner Family Page:

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Performance Playlist (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlUdEXI83_XoQrAsCj2A92v5AmXqVfoIO

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.

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Whitepaper: Performance Comparison o

RAID 5 Solutions for PCIe Gen 5 NVMe SSDs: https://www.graidtech.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Graid-Technology-PCIe-Gen-5-NVMe-White-Paper_2023-04-17-FINAL.pdf

GRAID Technology: https://www.graidtech.com/

GUEST: Kelley Osburn, Senior Director, GRAID Technology LINKEDIN PROFILE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kelleyosburn/

This podcast is sponsored by Saltworks Security. For almost 10 years, Saltworks Security has delivered world class application security services and products, designed to help enterprises secure their applications from policy to production in an ever-changing security landscape. They are the makers of Saltworks Saltminer, an application security management platform, designed by security professionals, for security professionals.

SaltMiner aggregates and normalizes issues found by many different solutions then enriches that data with business context. SaltMiner gives team members from the C-suite, security and development teams the ability to manage their application security program through customizable views.

The Saltworks SaltMiner Community Edition is a free Penetration Testing Management and Delivery application. It provides teams with custom reporting for potentially thousands of end users, red team support and the ability to manage new and retesting of engagements. SaltMiner Community Edition also allows teams to enforce both testing methodologies and custom vulnerability databases for consistency in engagement delivery.

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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: https://youtu.be/5kmJbhN0za8 Running LoadRunner in Jenkins (CI): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bS0DAwh6vM LRD Support for Microsoft Azure Devops: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoXUzAxPYj8 LoadRunner Developer Academy: https://www.youtube.com/@loadrunnerdeveloperacademy9025

This podcast is sponsored by Micro Focus and LoadRunner solutions. Performance matters. Did you know that LoadRunner solutions have the largest community of practitioners? Join the community at http://bit.ly/435Y5Po

Performance Engineering The LoadRunner Family Page:

https://www.microfocus.com/en-us/portfolio/performance-engineering/overview

Performance Playlist (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlUdEXI83_XoQrAsCj2A92v5AmXqVfoIO

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On March 8th, a complex DDOS attack affected both Datadog, Catchpoint, and WebPageTest https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35075616

Netscout finds DDoS attacks have jumped almost sixfold since 2019 https://siliconangle.com/2023/04/04/netscout-finds-ddos-attacks-increase-487-since-2019/

DDoS Mitigation: The Definitive Buyer’s Guide https://www.imperva.com/learn/ddos/ddos-mitigation-services/

This podcast is sponsored by Saltworks Security. For almost 10 years, Saltworks Security has delivered world class application security services and products, designed to help enterprises secure their applications from policy to production in an ever-changing security landscape.  They are the makers of Saltworks Saltminer, an application security management platform, designed by security professionals, for security professionals.

SaltMiner aggregates and normalizes issues found by many different solutions then enriches that data with business context. SaltMiner gives team members from the C-suite, security and development teams the ability to manage their application security program through customizable views. 

The Saltworks SaltMiner Community Edition is a free Penetration Testing Management and Delivery application. It provides teams with custom reporting for potentially thousands of end users, red team support and the ability to manage new and retesting of engagements.  SaltMiner Community Edition also allows teams to enforce both testing methodologies and custom vulnerability databases for consistency in engagement delivery.   https://bit.ly/smcsaltworks

How does a performance engineer approach building a high performance virtualization server on a budget?

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Scott Moore builds his own virtualization server. Parts used:

• Supermicro M11SDV-8C-LN4F
• iStarUSA Group D-214-MATX
• SAMSUNG 990 PRO NVME 1TB Drive
• Crucial RAM 32GB (4 of these to make 128GB of RAM)
• Supermicro SSD-DM032-SMCMVN1 32GB SATA DOM
• Noctua NF-A8 PWM
• Antec NeoECO Gold Zen Series NE500G Zen Power Supply
• Noctua 60x25mm NF-A6x25

Total Cost = $1,758.11

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Performance Playlist (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlUdEXI83_XoQrAsCj2A92v5AmXqVfoIO

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HPE to acquire OpsRamp AIOps Platform:

https://devops.com/hpe-to-acquire-opsramp-to-gain-aiops-platform/ 

Smartbear Acquires Aspecto:

https://smartbear.com/news/news-releases/smartbear-acquires-opentelemetry-pioneer-aspecto/ 

Grafana Labs Acquires Pyroscope:

https://devops.com/grafana-labs-acquires-pyroscope-to-add-code-profiling-capability/ 

Honeycomb Secures $50M in Funding:

https://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/Honeycomb-Secures-50M-in-Funding-Round-to-Boost-its-Observability-Platform-158037.aspx 

LoadRunner Releases new version:

https://community.microfocus.com/adtd/b/sws-alm/posts/loadrunner-professional-2023-has-now-been-released 

Wordpress 6.2 Gets a Performance Bump:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LroIJoYz-O9CpfJzaiKYYMWJ7GbE5RZoW1rf1R4FqyA/edit#gid=0 

Is there a 4th Pillar to Observability?

https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2023/04/03/2639758/0/en/Rookout-Makes-Snapshots-the-Fourth-Pillar-of-Observability-Capturing-Deep-Code-Level-Insights-for-Developers.html 

New Relic To Integrate with ChatGPT:

https://devops.com/new-relic-bets-on-ai-to-advance-observability/

This podcast is sponsored by Saltworks Security. For almost 10 years, Saltworks Security has delivered world class application security services and products, designed to help enterprises secure their applications from policy to production in an ever-changing security landscape. They are the makers of Saltworks Saltminer, an application security management platform, designed by security professionals, for security professionals.

SaltMiner aggregates and normalizes issues found by many different solutions then enriches that data with business context. SaltMiner gives team members from the C-suite, security and development teams the ability to manage their application security program through customizable views.

The Saltworks SaltMiner Community Edition is a free Penetration Testing Management and Delivery application. It provides teams with custom reporting for potentially thousands of end users, red team support and the ability to manage new and retesting of engagements. SaltMiner Community Edition also allows teams to enforce both testing methodologies and custom vulnerability databases for consistency in engagement delivery.

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Episode: 120 Air Date: 04/18/2023 Title: Opentelemetry Profiling GUEST: Josh Lee (Instana) LINKEDIN PROFILE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshuamlee/

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Josh Lee’s presentation at CMG Impact 2023:

https://www.cmg.org/2023/02/hey-nice-profile-the-future-of-profiling-in-opentelemetry/

Check out this other podcast with Josh Lee.

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Performance Engineering The LoadRunner Family Page:

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Performance Playlist (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlUdEXI83_XoQrAsCj2A92v5AmXqVfoIO

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Saltworks Security helps security teams build automated security scans into their DevOps pipelines. They have just released a new version of their SaltMiner Community Edition product. It is a free Penetration Testing Management and Delivery application. Scott Moore interviews the Founder and President Dennis Hurst. They discuss how security teams and performance engineers confront some of the same issues shifting left, and how to implement CI/CD at companies that are at various levels of maturity.

This podcast is sponsored by Saltworks Security. For almost 10 years, Saltworks has delivered world class application security services and products, designed to help enterprises secure their applications from policy to production in an ever-changing security landscape. They are the makers of Saltminer, an application security management platform, designed by security professionals, for security professionals.

SaltMiner aggregates and normalizes issues found by many different solutions then enriches that data with business context. SaltMiner gives team members from the C-suite, security and development teams the ability to manage their application security program through customizable views.

The Saltworks SaltMiner Community Edition is a free Penetration Testing Management and Delivery application. It provides teams with custom reporting for potentially thousands of end users, red team support and the ability to manage new and retesting of engagements. SaltMiner Community Edition also allows teams to enforce both testing methodologies and custom vulnerability databases for consistency in engagement delivery.

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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/

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ALTEN Acquires QA Consultants, Bringing Independent Software Quality Engineering Capabilities to its Services Portfolio https://qaconsultants.com/news/alten-acquires-qa-consultants/

The Performance Tour Live Event in Austin on 04/25/223

https://bit.ly/perftouraustin23

Check out this other video with James Pulley.

This podcast is sponsored by Micro Focus and LoadRunner solutions. Performance matters. Did you know that LoadRunner solutions have the largest community of practitioners? Join the community at https://community.microfocus.com/adtd/b/sws-alm 

The LoadRunner Family Page:

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Performance Playlist (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlUdEXI83_XoQrAsCj2A92v5AmXqVfoIO

Episode: 117 Air Date: 03/28/2023 Title: Load testing with Parallel GUEST:  Yev Spektor LINKEDIN PROFILE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yevgeniyspektor/

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Scott Moore interviews Yev Spektor, the founder of Parallel

Tell me about you and your background as it relates to load testing?   What drove you to starting Parallel?   Who is Parallel for - which persona (developer, perf tester, software engineers, non-technical users)?   Explain briefly how the product works (demo)  The real value in any load testing product is in the test results and analysis as this is what should lead you to the underlying reason for performance bottlenecks. What does Parallel provide in the way of analysis and how does it help to locate and pinpoint performance issues?   What is the vision for the product (roadmap)?

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/

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The latest features and updates. They include

• Virtual User Days (Flex Users) are back
• Citrix Protocol Updates
• Steadybit integration for additional resilience platforms
• Updates to Prometheus integration (HTTPS)

We also talk about why the footprint in browser-based protocols like TruClient are so large.

This podcast is sponsored by Micro Focus and Opentext. Performance matters. Did you know that Opentext has the largest community of practitioners? Join the community at https://community.microfocus.com/adtd/b/sws-alm 

Performance Engineering Page:

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Performance Playlist (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlUdEXI83_XoQrAsCj2A92v5AmXqVfoIO

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/

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Website: https://www.rumvision.com/ Erwin Hofman: https://www.erwinhofman.com/

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/

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Get started: https://www.gremlin.com/pricing/?ref=nav

Integration news: https://www.gremlin.com/blog/the-dual-approach-in-scaling-chaos-engineering-and-performance-engineering/

Check out this other episode on with Micro Focus.

This podcast is sponsored by Micro Focus and LoadRunner solutions. Performance matters. Did you know that LoadRunner solutions have the largest community of practitioners? Join the community at https://community.microfocus.com/adtd/b/sws-alm 

Performance Engineering The LoadRunner Family Page:

https://www.microfocus.com/en-us/portfolio/performance-engineering/overview

Performance Playlist (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlUdEXI83_XoQrAsCj2A92v5AmXqVfoIO

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/

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Website: https://gamedriver.io/ GDC Conference: https://www.gamedriver.io/blog/posts/2022/march/gamedriver-is-going-to-the-game-developers-conference/

Check out this podcast on 2023 Predictions for Systems Engineering.

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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/bamulligan/

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Isovalent: https://isovalent.com/ Cilium: https://cilium.io/

Performance Testing Cilium Blogs:

https://cilium.io/blog/2023/01/25/hetzner-performance-testing/ https://cilium.io/blog/2022/04/12/cilium-standalone-L4LB-XDP/ https://cilium.io/blog/2021/05/11/cni-benchmark/

Hubble: https://github.com/cilium/hubble Is It Observable: https://isitobservable.io/observability/service-mesh/what-are-cilium-hubble

Check out this previous podcast about our Kubecon 2022 Takeaways!

This podcast is sponsored by Micro Focus and LoadRunner solutions. Performance matters. Did you know that LoadRunner solutions have the largest community of practitioners? Join the community at https://community.microfocus.com/adtd/b/sws-alm 

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Performance Playlist (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlUdEXI83_XoQrAsCj2A92v5AmXqVfoIO

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/

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https://www.forbes.com/sites/janakirammsv/2023/01/09/meet-groundcoverthe-startup-thats-building-the-next-gen-observability-stack/?sh=b585fb5780cd

Main Website: https://www.groundcover.com/

Caretta: https://github.com/groundcover-com/caretta

Check out this other podcast episode about observability platforms.

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Episode: 110 Air Date: 02/07/2023 Title: The Gartner® Performance Engineering Report

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Scott Moore reviews the 2023 Gartner® Innovation Insight for Performance Engineering Report By Joachim Herschmann, Keith Guttridge, Thomas Murphy

Register / Download URL: https://bit.ly/3iR6vri

Takeaways:

1. There is STILL a gross lack of performance engineering skills in the industry. Companies must invest in their team to educate them and skill them up to tackle hard problems
2. Developers can’t always address the performance issues
3. Performance testing can’t always address performance issues and tools alone are not the answer
4. Continuous Performance is the only way to go forward in todays modern application development lifecycle
5. Gartner now acknowledges performance engineering exists. Now can we start sitting at the big boy table? We should be the CIO’s best friend. We want what they want: Fast, Resilient, Efficient (low cost), and Low Risk. Why aren’t we the rock stars instead of the developers?

“Performance efficiency is one of the most critical operational characteristics of applications that directly reflect software quality and ensure positive user experiences.”

This podcast is sponsored by Micro Focus and LoadRunner solutions. Performance matters. Did you know that LoadRunner solutions have the largest community of practitioners? Join the community at https://community.microfocus.com/adtd/b/sws-alm 

Performance Engineering The LoadRunner Family Page:

https://www.microfocus.com/en-us/portfolio/performance-engineering/overview

Performance Playlist (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlUdEXI83_XoQrAsCj2A92v5AmXqVfoIO

Episode: 109 Air Date: 01/31/2023 Title: Software Engineering. Performance or Security? GUEST: Ron Foster. Client Principal, Saltworks LINKEDIN PROFILE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rfoster/

For a video version of this episode: https://youtu.be/HPXNu_onX9A

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Video demoing MFA automation with TruClient in WebInspect: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3hH7J_TFZk

Episode: 108 Air Date: 01/24/2023 Title: Can You Automate Application Reliability? GUEST: Harjot Gill. Co-founder and CEO of FluxNinja LINKEDIN PROFILE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harjotsgill/

How can you automate a response to a sudden spike in load? Can you prepare ahead of time for a point load situation like Black Friday? Aperture is an open source flow control and site reliability management platform from FluxNinja developed to address this problem. Scott Moore interviews Harjot Gill of FluxNinja to talk about how they solve this with flow control.

“Aperture detects service-level objective (SLO) violations and deploys active counter-measures such as concurrency limits to protect against cascading failures.”

https://www.fluxninja.com/

Github Repository: https://github.com/fluxninja/aperture

Techcrunch Article: https://techcrunch.com/sponsor/fluxninja/fluxninja-announces-aperture-bringing-reliability-to-your-web-scale-apps-with-flow-control/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEl4SMo3KNo (short video explaining Aperture)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m070bAvrDHM – Demo video

For the video version of this episode: https://youtu.be/zfxY6-Tfazk

This podcast is sponsored by Micro Focus and LoadRunner solutions. Performance matters. Did you know that LoadRunner solutions have the largest community of practitioners? Join the community at https://community.microfocus.com/adtd/b/sws-alm 

Performance Engineering The LoadRunner Family Page:

https://www.microfocus.com/en-us/portfolio/performance-engineering/overview

Performance Playlist (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlUdEXI83_XoQrAsCj2A92v5AmXqVfoIO

• Episode: 107
• Air Date: 01/17/2023
• Title: 2023 Trends for Systems Engineers
• Guest: Mehdi Daoudi, CEO Catchpoint. https://www.linkedin.com/in/mdaoudi/

A new Gartner IT category defined by Gartner to address user experience, human or machine, across every dependency, whether network or service, inside or outside your company. DEM connects IT initiatives to business outcomes such as revenue and customer satisfaction by focusing on overall visibility into the whole “digital experience”.

For the Video version of this episode: https://youtu.be/ekAZJvohGN0

https://www.gartner.com/en/documents/4014122

https://www.catchpoint.com/ – “Digital Experience Observability”

https://www.lakesidesoftware.com/digital-experience-monitoring-what-it-why/

Cloudflare just announced they are getting into the space

and HERE.

Here is the waitlist for this new service.