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TestMU Conference 2023

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 SinghLINKEDIN PROFILE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/muditsingh5000/ 
Show Notes
TestMu 2023 Conference Site:https://www.lambdatest.com/testmuconf-2023
LambdaTest Sitehttps://www.lambdatest.com/  
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 anams to enforce both testing methodologies and custom vulnerability databases for consistency in engagement delivery. https://bit.ly/smcsaltworks

The Impact of AI on Observability

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
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Show Notes
GUEST: David Tattersall
Intergal FusionReactor has added OpsPilot AI, an integration with Chat GPT-4
OpsPilot AI Press ReleaseLangchain
Sponsors
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:
Performance Playlist (YouTube)

Load Testing Apache Kafka With LoadRunner

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 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 documentationLoadRunner Kafka protocolLoadRunner Kafka testSponsors
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:
Performance Playlist (YouTube): 

Continuous Benchmarking With Bencher

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/docs/reference/prior-art
Sponsors
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
 

Ransomware Attacks

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-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
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

Observability and AI

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-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
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 for Decision Makers

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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For a video version of this episode: https://youtu.be/hhoIn5MKGnI
Show Notes
GUEST: Joey Hendricks, Senior Performance EngineerLINKEDIN 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
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

Continuous Performance

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 
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Show Notes
Lee Barnes Twitter: @USI_LeeBarnesForte Group: Fortegrp.com
GUEST: Lee Barnes, Chief Quality Officer at Forte GroupLINKEDIN PROFILE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leebarnes/
Continuous Performance presentation at Inflectracon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ffotEzYYkc
Sponsors
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

The fastest SSD RAID?

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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For a video version of this episode: https://youtu.be/UtV75W4j0Yg
Show Notes
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 TechnologyLINKEDIN PROFILE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kelleyosburn/
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

Shifting Left With LoadRunner Developer

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/5kmJbhN0za8Running LoadRunner in Jenkins (CI): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bS0DAwh6vMLRD Support for Microsoft Azure Devops: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoXUzAxPYj8LoadRunner Developer Academy: https://www.youtube.com/@loadrunnerdeveloperacademy9025
Sponsors
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
For a video version of this episode: https://youtu.be/uQRUog9tqn4
Support the SMC Journal. Buy Me A Coffee: https://bit.ly/smcjournalcoffee