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Tuesday Feb 18, 2025
Tuesday Feb 18, 2025
Why one of my YouTube videos got limited views. I explain how Google Ads flagged a random keyword on my website.
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Learn data and AI skills at DataCamp: ► https://datacamp.pxf.io/VxxXdO
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Tuesday Feb 11, 2025
Tuesday Feb 11, 2025
Discover how Checkly is transforming software monitoring with "Observability as Code". This approach allows developers to address the challenges of rapidly changing software.
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⏲ Performance Tour: ► https://theperformancetour.com
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🏎️DevOps Driving: ► https://devopsdriving.com
🔐The Security Champions: ► https://thesecuritychampions.com
🚀DevPerfOps Foundation: ► https://devperfops.org
🚢PerfCruise: ► https://perfcruise.com
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Tuesday Jan 21, 2025
Tuesday Jan 21, 2025
🚀 **Check out this fascinating podcast episode about the transformative potential of Agentic AI!**
🤖 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.
🎧 Tune in now to uncover the future of AI and its impact on industries! Plus, check out DataCamp's AI learning track to gain hands-on experience with real-world AI applications.
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✨Scott Moore Consulting: ► https://scottmoore.consulting
⏲ Performance Tour: ► https://theperformancetour.com
🎤SMC Journal Podcast: ► https://smcjournal.com
🏎️DevOps Driving: ► https://devopsdriving.com
🔐The Security Champions: ► https://thesecuritychampions.com
🚀DevPerfOps Foundation: ► https://devperfops.org
🚢PerfCruise: ► https://perfcruise.com

Wednesday Dec 04, 2024
Wednesday Dec 04, 2024
Strengthen your cyber resilience! Join us as we discuss cyber resilience from a software engineering perspective with cybersecurity expert Teresa Lanowitz.
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.
Learn about:
● The importance of cyber resilience in today's threat landscape.● How to incorporate cyber resilience principles into software engineering practices.● Practical tips for improving your organization's security posture.
Check out the 2024 Futures report at https://bit.ly/levelblue
Visit the LevelBlue Website at levelblue.com
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Tuesday Nov 26, 2024
Tuesday Nov 26, 2024
Former Mercury Interactive CMO, Chris Lochhead, reveals the company's customer-obsessed culture, aggressive execution strategies, and focus on category design that led to its legendary success in the software testing market. Learn how their unique approach can be applied to any company looking to dominate its industry.
🚀 Key Takeaways:
● Customer obsession is paramount. It's not just about providing good service; it's about making customer success the driving force behind every decision.
●Don't just be better, be different. Identify unmet needs and create new categories that solve problems in innovative ways.
● Listen to your "super consumers". These highly engaged customers offer invaluable insights that can shape your product development and marketing strategies.
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Tuesday Nov 19, 2024
Tuesday Nov 19, 2024
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-engineer/
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Tuesday Nov 05, 2024
Tuesday Nov 05, 2024
Why I switched from Ubiquiti to Peplink Wireless APs for better Wi-Fi performance.
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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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Tuesday Oct 22, 2024
Tuesday Oct 22, 2024
Load your website 45% faster with Cloudflare Speed Brain. Speed Brain uses the Speculation Rules API to prefetch content, making pages load almost instantly.
🚀Cloudflare's Speedbrain feature uses speculation rules API from Chrome to prefetch content, reducing page load times by up to 45% for static content.
🖱️Speedbrain predicts user navigation based on client-side cues like mouse hover, downloading the next likely page in the background for instant loading from browser cache.
📊Cloudflare's Real User Measurements (RUM) helps site owners track web vitals like LCP and FID, enabling data-driven decisions to optimize website performance and user experience.
🌐Cloudflare's CDN and Argo Smart Routing work together to reduce latency by caching content globally and routing traffic through optimized internal paths, bypassing internet backbone congestion.
🔮Cloudflare is developing pre-rendering capabilities to render pages in the background, promising even faster load times when combined with existing Early Hints technology for asset preloading.
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Tuesday Sep 24, 2024
Tuesday Sep 24, 2024
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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Thursday Aug 15, 2024
Thursday Aug 15, 2024
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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The SMC Journal is a podcast about Software Engineering, Performance, DevOps, DevPerfOps, Observability, Cloud Computing, Security, AI, and much more. The show covers news events, corporate events, vendor software features and updates, and more.
Content includes commentary and demonstrations by Scott Moore and his guests. Join him as he interviews industry experts, company representatives and hosts lively discussions with the performance community.