SMC Journal
Episodes
Quality at Scale: Engineering in an AI-Driven World.
06 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This episode explores the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence in software, with a focus on how software engineering professionals and QA can ke...
Introducing Gatling Studio - Making DevEx Easier
09 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Scott Moore interviews Stephane Landelle, CTO of Gatling. They talk about the new Gatling Studio and the problems it solves for both ...
5 Trends in Performance With AI
20 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How can AI drive performance engineering and testing? This episode explores five significant shifts in the landscape, providing insights into the impa...
AI Enhancements in Performance Testing
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Host Scott Moore dives into the world of AI in performance testing, exploring how tools like Tricentis NeoLoad, BlazeMeter, and OpenText are leveragin...
P99 Conference 2025
25 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The P99 Conference is a must-attend event that dives deep into the art and science of building and scaling high-performance systems. Register: p99conf...
What is Context Engineering?
09 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we are exploring the concept of context engineering and its potential to bring back discipline to software development in the age of ...
MCP Server Explained With Cloudflare
01 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
MCP servers everywhere in tech feeds these days, and while it's becoming a crucial part of AI agents communicating with software and utilizing their s...
5 Reasons Load Testing Does Not Work
23 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are your load testing efforts falling short? In this episode of the SMC Journal, I give you five big reasons why load testing doesn't work for many or...
Performance and the Software Lifecycle Engineer
06 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Is the Software Lifecycle Engineer (SLE) the future for addressing software performance? In this video, Scott Moore will discuss a possible alternativ...
Internet Performance Monitoring: Next Level Application Resilience
29 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What is Internet Performance Monitoring (IPM)? In this episode of the SMC Journal, you’ll learn about blind spots in current APM and Observability p...
Altinity Rocks With Blazing Database Performance
15 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Let's explore Altinity for blazing fast database performance! Real-time analytics & open source explained.  💰 Sponsors If you are interested ...
Load Testing Insights 2025
08 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Scott Moore and Jay Akselrud discuss load testing in 2025. Get insights on DevOps and Continuous Testing, missing Skill Sets, and don't miss the "bloo...
Limited Views on YouTube? This may be why...
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why one of my YouTube videos got limited views. I explain how Google Ads flagged a random keyword on my website.  🔥  Like and Subscribe 🔥 💰...
Observability as Code with Checkly. Monitor your applications
11 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Discover how Checkly is transforming software monitoring with "Observability as Code". This approach allows developers to address the challenges of ra...
Your New AI Co-worker - Agentic AI
21 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
🚀 **Check out this fascinating podcast episode about the transformative potential of Agentic AI!** 🤖 Learn how Agentic AI goes beyond task-based...
Achieving Cyber Resilience: Expert Insights From LevelBlue
04 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Strengthen your cyber resilience! Join us as we discuss cyber resilience from a software engineering perspective with cybersecurity expert Teresa Lano...
Legendary Marketing Secrets For Software Companies
26 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Former Mercury Interactive CMO, Chris Lochhead, reveals the company's customer-obsessed culture, aggressive execution strategies, and focus on categor...
How I became a performance engineer
19 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is the story of how I became a performance engineer. See the blog that goes with this video at https://scottmoore.consulting/blog/performance-eng...
My Insights Switching From Unifi To A Peplink Wireless AP
05 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Why I switched from Ubiquiti to Peplink Wireless APs for better Wi-Fi performance. Use code PERFTOUR for a special discount at https://bit.ly/buypepli...
Cloudflare Speed Brain - Improve Your Website Performance For Free
22 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Load your website 45% faster with Cloudflare Speed Brain. Speed Brain uses the Speculation Rules API to prefetch content, making pages load almost ins...
The P99 Conference has top performance engineering insights! P99 CONF
24 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The P99 Conference 2024, taking place on October 23-24, will focus on performance engineering and feature insights from industry leaders, emphasizing ...
Scaling Kubernetes, Microservices, and Ephemeral Environments
15 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Speedscale addresses the challenges of scaling Kubernetes in a microservices and containerized, ephemeral environment. This includes real-traffic repl...
What is DevPerfOps?
06 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What is DevPerfOps, you ask? DevPerfOps is a crucial concept in software engineering, emphasizing the integration of performance engineering into DevO...
Mastering OpenTelemetry and Observability
30 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"Mastering OpenTelemetry and Observability" is a new book by Steve Flanders. Â Observability in complex systems is crucial, and OpenTelemetry is the f...
Using eBPF for Better Kubernetes Performance
23 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
eBPF is a powerful tool for improving performance in Kubernetes and microservices, providing real-time analysis and management, but its complexity may...
Optimizing Software Systems - The Art Of Performance Engineering
16 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Performance engineering is crucial for ensuring efficient, cost-effective, and fast software, especially in mission-critical systems, and it involves ...
Discover the Peplink B One Multi-WAN Router
14 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Peplink B One offers advanced features and capabilities for improved connectivity and redundancy, making it a valuable investment for home office ...
Optimizing the Cloud With Performance Engineering
16 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Optimizing cloud performance saves resources, money, and reduces environmental impact. Companies are wasting up to 80% of resources that could be real...
Fluency Security SIEM With Streaming Analytics
02 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Fluency Security's real-time analytics and unique approach to SIEM sets them apart from traditional security platforms, allowing for faster detection ...
Peplink Tech Summit 2023 Part 2
26 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Peplink Tech Summit 2023 Part 1
19 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
West Networks ABD Peplink are leaders in the SD-WAN industry. They recently hosted their annual Tech Summit conference in Savannah, GA. Networking ent...
Which Database Is The Fastest?
12 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Load Test Like a Rock Star (Part 2)
05 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A load test is crucial for identifying and fixing problems early on, and by conducting performance testing as a repeatable process, performance tester...
Load Test Like a Rock Star (Part 1)
28 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Executing a load test is crucial for identifying and resolving performance issues in a system, and it should be approached systematically with accurat...
Monitoring As Code With Checkly
21 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Monitoring as code could be the future of synthetic monitoring, allowing for continuous monitoring of APIs and websites through automation scripts and...
Real User Monitoring Metrics The Easy Way
14 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Real user monitoring is a crucial tool for improving website performance by capturing accurate data on user experience and providing actionable insigh...
Open Source Observability
07 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Open source observability could be a cost-effective and community-driven alternative to commercial platforms, offering valuable features and promoting...
Get Continuous Performance Profiling Metrics With eBPF
31 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The extended Berkeley packet filter (eBPF) is a powerful tool for continuous performance profiling and monitoring of complex systems, providing valuab...
See The Future Of Remote Access For Developers
24 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
NearEDGE is a solution for managing and troubleshooting compute infrastructure and software assets - giving remote access to software assets in the cl...
Conferences For Performance Engineers
17 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Podelko, a senior performance engineer at Amazon Web Services, discusses the biggest changes in performance testing in the last three to five yea...
Get A Career In DevSecOps
10 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 interview...
Get This JMeter Plugin
03 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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). Sco...
Learn How To Scale Kubernetes
26 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Implement Service Virtualization Into DevOps Today
19 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Service Virtualization or Mocking is crucial to the model application development lifecycle. Scott interviews the CEO of Speedscale about the importan...
Blackhat and Defcon 2023 Coverage
12 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As part of his Blackhat and Defcon conference coverage, Scott interviews Alex Waintraub and Thomas Plank on application security topics. They cover ra...
AI Driven End-To-End Automated Testing
05 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 te...
Performance Budgets
29 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Performance budgets are an important control mechanism to keep web applications fast and efficient. Tammy Everts shares how to set them up and apply ...
SteadyBit and LoadRunner
22 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Scott Moore interviews the CEO of SteadyBit about the LoadRunner integration that provides chaos and resilience testing features to load testing scena...
Application Security Posture Management
15 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What is Application Security Posture Management (ASPM)? A new category by Gartner that describes an approach to managing application security througho...
What’s new in the LoadRunner Family 2023
08 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
LoadRunner 2023 R1 is out. Scott Moore interviews product manager David McLeish to get details about the new product features and updates. Support the...
Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM)
01 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) is a defined category by Gartner to address the true user experience. Are there visibility gaps left open by tradi...
TestMU Conference 2023
25 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
The Impact of AI on Observability
18 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Observability platforms are announcing integrations with OpenAI ChatGPT. How will AI Â affect the future of these products and what new features can w...
Load Testing Apache Kafka With LoadRunner
11 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 Not...
Continuous Benchmarking With Bencher
27 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Bencher is a tool made to detect and prevent performance regressions before they make it to production, used within a continuous integration pipeline....
Ransomware Attacks
20 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Observability and AI
13 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Several Observability vendors have made announcements about integrating generative AI into their product. Scott reviews and breaks down what it means ...
Performance Engineering for Decision Makers
06 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 effic...
Continuous Performance
30 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What does continuous performance within modern software development look like in a DevOps world? Scott interviews Lee Barnes for insights. For a video...
The fastest SSD RAID?
23 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ke...
Shifting Left With LoadRunner Developer
16 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 t...
DDOS Attacks and BOT Mitigation
09 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 fr...
My Virtualization Server
02 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How does a performance engineer approach building a high performance virtualization server on a budget? For a video version of this podcast: https://...
Software Engineering News - Spring 2023
25 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The latest information in software engineering, including new product releases, acquisition, and news items centered around performance testing, obser...
OpenTelemetry Profiling?
18 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Profiles are an exciting new data type in OpenTelemetry coming soon to help round out what is possible with OpenTelemetry instrumentation. Josh Lee fr...
Security Testing With SaltMiner
11 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Scott Moore interviews the Founder of Saltworks Security about their new SaltMiner Community Edition software, and how they help security testers in a...
Big News For Performance Engineers Globally
04 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
James Pulley and Brian Bernknopf share big news about a company acquisition that affects the performance engineering community as a whole. Episode:...
Load Testing With Parallel
28 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
What New in LoadRunner 2023?
21 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Real User Monitoring and Website Performance
14 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How does Real User Monitoring metrics provide? How important is a high score in Google Lighthouse to website performance? Episode: 115 Air Date: 03...
LoadRunner Gremlin Integration
07 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Learn the value of combining load testing and resilience experiments with LoadRunner and Gremlin, and where the product is going next. Episode: 114...
Test Automation In Video Games With Gamedriver
28 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 Game...
How Does Cilium Improve K8s Performance?
21 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ch...
Next Generation Observability With Groundcover
14 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
The Gartner® Performance Engineering Report
07 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Gartner® Innovation Insight for Performance Engineering Report Episode: 110 Air Date: 02/07/2023 Title: The Gartner® Performance Engineering Rep...
Software Engineering: Performance or Security?
31 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In software engineering, what is the balance performance and security? Do you have to choose one over the other? Is highly secure software slower? Ron...
Can you automate application reliability?
24 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How can you automate Application Reliability? Episode:Â 108 Air Date:Â 01/24/2023 Title:Â Can You Automate Application Reliability? GUEST:Â Harjot Gil...
What Is Digital Experience Monitoring?
17 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What is Digital Experience Monitoring and how does it help IT organizations? Episode: 107 Air Date: 01/17/2023 Title: 2023 Trends for Systems Engine...