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The P99 Conference has top performance engineering insights! P99 CONF

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

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

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

Mastering OpenTelemetry and Observability

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

Using eBPF for Better Kubernetes Performance

eBPF is a powerful tool for improving performance in Kubernetes and microservices, providing real-time analysis and management, but its complexity may be a barrier for some developers. Donald Lutz shares his experience using it, and some of the pitfalls to watch out for on this SMC Journal #podcast. Key Insights on eBPF Performance🚀 The use of eBPF can help avoid the complexity and issues with sidecars in #Kubernetes, making it ideal for running on container machines.📊 The best use case for using eBPF is to measure the performance of interconnected microservices in a complicated system, tying it into tools like Jaeger for comprehensive performance analysis.📊 The struggle with measuring and understanding the performance of #microservices across multiple clusters highlights the need for better performance #monitoring tools.🌐 eBPF is not just about performance, but also about broader applications such as observability and there are conferences dedicated to it.🛡 Making decisions at a low level without adding security overhead is a huge advantage in network #performance and security.🔄 Turning the ship around to prioritize performance requires making #DevOps native and changing the way development has ignored the issue.🚀 Performance is vital in technology, dropping phone calls is not super cool.🕰️ The future of #eBPF adoption depends on how quickly it can be made accessible to a broader range of users.#softwareengineering #performanceengineering 

Optimizing Software Systems - The Art Of Performance Engineering

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 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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Discover the Peplink B One Multi-WAN Router

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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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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Optimizing the Cloud With Performance Engineering

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 this interview. 
Key insights Into Cloud Optimization
🚀 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.
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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.  
 

Fluency Security SIEM With Streaming Analytics

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 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.
Sponsors
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 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.
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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Peplink Tech Summit 2023 Part 2

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 features three interviews with attendees. This is part two of a two part series.
Insights Into The Peplink Tech Summit 2023 Conference
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.
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.
http://bit.ly/westnetworks