Best SMC Journal Podcasts (2024)

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Mastering OpenTelemetry and Observability 18:20

7h ago18:20

18:20

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

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Using eBPF for Better Kubernetes Performance 26:15

8d ago26:15

26:15

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

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Optimizing Software Systems - The Art Of Performance Engineering 31:28

4M ago31:28

31:28

Performance engineering is crucial for ensuring efficient, cost-effective, and fast software, especially in mission-critical systems, and it involves anticipating and addressing system performance issues throughout the software development lifecycle. Andre Bondi discusses performance engineering and the content in his book, "Foundations of Software…

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Discover the Peplink B One Multi-WAN Router 10:21

5M ago10:21

10:21

The Peplink B One offers advanced features and capabilities for improved connectivity and redundancy, making it a valuable investment for home office users who need resilient Internet connections. 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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Optimizing the Cloud With Performance Engineering 26:07

7M ago26:07

26:07

Optimizing cloud performance saves resources, money, and reduces environmental impact. Companies are wasting up to 80% of resources that could be reallocated. Performance engineering is crucial for optimizing cloud services and make digital transformation successful. David Linthicum, chief cloud architect at Deloitte, discusses its importance in th…

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Fluency Security SIEM With Streaming Analytics 18:30

7M ago18:30

18:30

Fluency Security's real-time analytics and unique approach to SIEM sets them apart from traditional security platforms, allowing for faster detection and response to security threats. Scott Moore interviews the CEO, Chris Jordan. Key insights into Fluency Security 🛡️Fluency Security integrates real-time analytics with security platforms, setting th…

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Peplink Tech Summit 2023 Part 2 18:21

7M ago18:21

18:21

Tech Summit Part 1. West Networks and Peplink are leaders in the SD-WAN industry. They recently hosted their annual Tech Summit conference in Savannah, GA. Networking enthusiasts come together to share information and make the community bigger, while also discussing the potential impact of 5G and Starlink on the future of fixed wireless. This video…

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Peplink Tech Summit 2023 Part 1 13:18

8M ago13:18

13:18

West Networks ABD Peplink are leaders in the SD-WAN industry. They recently hosted their annual Tech Summit conference in Savannah, GA. Networking enthusiasts come together to share information and make the community bigger, while also discussing the potential impact of 5G and Starlink on the future of fixed wireless. Video Highlights For The Pepli…

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Which Database Is The Fastest? 26:17

8M ago26:17

26:17

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 ou…

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Load Test Like a Rock Star (Part 2) 18:56

8M ago18:56

18:56

A load test is crucial for identifying and fixing problems early on, and by conducting performance testing as a repeatable process, performance testers can find and solve problems early in the software development lifecycle, ultimately providing significant value to their company. Insights About A Load Test 📈 The session delves into the different t…

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Load Test Like a Rock Star (Part 1) 25:29

8M ago25:29

25:29

Executing a load test is crucial for identifying and resolving performance issues in a system, and it should be approached systematically with accurate automation, monitoring, and analysis. Show Notes For Load Test Like a Rock Star 🎯 “Load testing is a crucial aspect of software engineering and modern IT, encompassing testing, tuning, observability…

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Monitoring As Code With Checkly 26:10

9M ago26:10

26:10

Monitoring as code could be the future of synthetic monitoring, allowing for continuous monitoring of APIs and websites through automation scripts and configurations stored in a repository, making it a collaborative effort in a DevOps culture. Support the SMC Journal. Buy Me A Coffee: https://bit.ly/smcjournalcoffee Show Notes GUEST: Hannes Lenke L…

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Real User Monitoring Metrics The Easy Way 30:27

9M ago30:27

30:27

Real user monitoring is a crucial tool for improving website performance by capturing accurate data on user experience and providing actionable insights and recommendations. Scott Moore interviews Todd Gardner the CEO to find out how this is possible. Support the SMC Journal. Buy Me A Coffee: https://bit.ly/smcjournalcoffee Show Notes GUEST: Todd G…

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Open Source Observability 30:20

9M ago30:20

30:20

Open source observability could be a cost-effective and community-driven alternative to commercial platforms, offering valuable features and promoting innovation. Scott Moore interviews the founder of Signoz. Insights About Open Source Observability 🌍 Open source observability platforms provide a cost-effective alternative to commercial tools, addr…

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Get Continuous Performance Profiling Metrics With eBPF 26:39

9M ago26:39

26:39

The extended Berkeley packet filter (eBPF) is a powerful tool for continuous performance profiling and monitoring of complex systems, providing valuable metrics and insights for performance engineers and enabling early issue detection and resolution in a DevOps culture. 🔥 Like and Subscribe 🔥 Key insights 🚀 Frederick Branik discusses the benefits o…

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See The Future Of Remote Access For Developers 21:33

9M ago21:33

21:33

NearEDGE is a solution for managing and troubleshooting compute infrastructure and software assets - giving remote access to software assets in the cloud, with strong security practices and minimal friction for developers. GUEST: Claude Robitaille, CEO NearEDGE LINKEDIN PROFILE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clauderobitailleeng/ 🔥 Like and Subscribe …

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Conferences For Performance Engineers 17:03

10M ago17:03

17:03

Alex Podelko, a senior performance engineer at Amazon Web Services, discusses the biggest changes in performance testing in the last three to five years. He highlights the importance of continuous testing and monitoring in the cloud and agile development era, as well as the challenges of developing a one-size-fits-all approach to continuous perform…

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Get A Career In DevSecOps 27:47

10M ago27:47

27:47

Want to move your career into the DevSecOps space? Are you wondering what it takes to get a job Cybersecurity or where to start? Scott Moore interviews Tim Chase - Field CISO at Lacework about this very topic and how he switched over from performance engineering to security testing. Support the SMC Journal. Buy Me A Coffee: https://bit.ly/smcjourna…

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Get This JMeter Plugin 20:38

10M ago20:38

20:38

The Throughput Shaping Timer JMeter plugin makes it easy to crate a test scenario that will produce a desired number of requests per second (RPS). Scott interviews the author of this plugin. They also discuss the importance of contributing to the JMeter open source project. GUEST: Jakub (Kuba) Dering LINKEDIN PROFILE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ku…

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Learn How To Scale Kubernetes 19:57

10M ago19:57

19:57

In this episode, we take each component of Kubernetes and determine how to make it scale. Scott interviews the CTO of PerfectScale on how to optimize Kubernetes deployed applications. Show Notes GUEST: Eli Birger LINKEDIN PROFILE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eli-birger-44aa8717/ Perfect Scale: https://www.perfectscale.io/ OpenAI - Scaling Kubernete…

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Implement Service Virtualization Into DevOps Today 21:16

11M ago21:16

21:16

Service Virtualization or Mocking is crucial to the model application development lifecycle. Scott interviews the CEO of Speedscale about the importance of implementing mocking and how to do it properly. This includes imitating API calls that perform poorly. GUEST: Ken Ahrens, CEO of Speedscale LINKEDIN PROFILE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kahrens/…

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Blackhat and Defcon 2023 Coverage 15:37

11M ago15:37

15:37

As part of his Blackhat and Defcon conference coverage, Scott interviews Alex Waintraub and Thomas Plank on application security topics. They cover ransomware, data tampering detection, and the impact of AI on #Appsec. Show Notes New Jersey Cyber Fireside: http://www.cyberfiresidenj.com/ Tributech - https://www.tributech.io/ Sponsors This podcast i…

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AI Driven End-To-End Automated Testing 26:59

11M ago26:59

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Modern applications are more complex than ever. This means more testing to get the best coverage and reduce risk. It's overwhelming. Will AI make test automation faster, easier, and better? Scott Moore talks to the founder and CEO of TestGrid to find out. LINK TO EMBEDDED YOUTUBE VIDEO Support the SMC Journal. Buy Me A Coffee: https://bit.ly/smcjou…

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Performance Budgets 30:44

11M ago30:44

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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. Support the SMC Journal. Buy Me A Coffee: https://bit.ly/smcjournalcoffee GUEST: Tammy Everts LINKEDIN PROFILE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tammyeverts/ Show Not…

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SteadyBit and LoadRunner 20:52

12M ago20:52

20:52

Scott Moore interviews the CEO of SteadyBit about the LoadRunner integration that provides chaos and resilience testing features to load testing scenarios. GUEST: Benjamin Wilms LINKEDIN PROFILE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjamin-wilms/ Show Notes SteadyBit website: https://steadybit.com/ LoadRunner Chaos Testing for Scenarios: https://admhelp.m…

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Application Security Posture Management 28:01

12M ago28:01

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What is Application Security Posture Management (ASPM)? A new category by Gartner that describes an approach to managing application security throughout the lifecycle. It helps organizations identify, prioritize, and remediate vulnerabilities, comply with regulations and reduce the risk of data breaches. Support the SMC Journal. Buy Me A Coffee: ht…

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What’s new in the LoadRunner Family 2023 32:17

12M ago32:17

32:17

LoadRunner 2023 R1 is out. Scott Moore interviews product manager David McLeish to get details about the new product features and updates. Support the SMC Journal. Buy Me A Coffee: https://bit.ly/smcjournalcoffee GUEST: David McLeish LINKEDIN PROFILE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-mcleish-58a9b62/ Show Notes LoadRunner Professional Help Center …

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Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) 26:28

1y ago26:28

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

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TestMU Conference 2023 19:32

1y ago19:32

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

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The Impact of AI on Observability 40:48

1y ago40:48

40:48

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

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Load Testing Apache Kafka With LoadRunner 21:02

1y ago21:02

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

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Continuous Benchmarking With Bencher 22:37

1y ago22:37

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

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Ransomware Attacks 19:15

1y ago19:15

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

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Observability and AI 16:32

1y ago16:32

16:32

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

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Performance Engineering for Decision Makers 29:38

1y ago29:38

29:38

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

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Continuous Performance 18:30

1y ago18:30

18:30

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

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The fastest SSD RAID? 21:08

1y ago21:08

21:08

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

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Shifting Left With LoadRunner Developer 20:02

1y ago20:02

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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 che…

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DDOS Attacks and BOT Mitigation 25:44

1y ago25:44

25:44

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

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My Virtualization Server 23:26

1+ y ago23:26

23:26

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

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Software Engineering News - Spring 2023 19:44

1+ y ago19:44

19:44

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

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OpenTelemetry Profiling? 19:15

1+ y ago19:15

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

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Security Testing With SaltMiner 23:35

1+ y ago23:35

23:35

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

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Big News For Performance Engineers Globally 22:27

1+ y ago22:27

22:27

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

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Load Testing With Parallel 24:15

1+ y ago24:15

24:15

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

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What New in LoadRunner 2023? 28:39

1+ y ago28:39

28:39

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

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Real User Monitoring and Website Performance 27:37

1+ y ago27:37

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

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LoadRunner Gremlin Integration 33:33

1+ y ago33:33

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

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Test Automation In Video Games With Gamedriver 25:39

1+ y ago25:39

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

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How Does Cilium Improve K8s Performance? 16:53

1+ y ago16:53

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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 LINK…

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