SMC Journal

SMC Journal

The SMC Journal is a podcast about all things related to Software Engineering, Performance, DevOps, Observability, Cloud Computing, Security, AI, and much more.

Episodes

November 20, 2025 5 mins

How can AI drive performance engineering and testing? This episode explores five significant shifts in the landscape, providing insights into the impact of artificial intelligence on software testing. Discover how automation testing and performance monitoring tools are evolving, making the untestable, testable, with machine learning approaches.

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September 30, 2025 14 mins

Host Scott Moore dives into the world of AI in performance testing, exploring how tools like Tricentis NeoLoad, BlazeMeter, and OpenText are leveraging predictive analytics, generative AI, and agentic AI to transform the field. But is the hype real? Moore offers a balanced perspective, urging us to embrace AI’s potential while staying grounded in expertise and validation. 

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September 25, 2025 13 mins

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.io Huyen Chip's site: https://huyenchip.com/

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July 9, 2025 11 mins

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 vibe coding. Could context engineering bring back some needed discipline for better software outcomes? 

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July 1, 2025 16 mins

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 services to perform powerful tasks. On today's show we talk about how much the MCP Server phenomena is impacting the developer experience. My gues is Ricky Robinett from Cloudflare.

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June 23, 2025 18 mins

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 organizations based on my 30+ years of consulting experience in performance engineering. Just me talking directly to you.

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Is the Software Lifecycle Engineer (SLE) the future for addressing software performance? In this video, Scott Moore will discuss a possible alternative to the Site Reliability Engineer for operational requirements across the entire software development lifecycle.

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What is Internet Performance Monitoring (IPM)? In this episode of the SMC Journal, you’ll learn about blind spots in current APM and Observability platforms, and why IPM is crucial for monitoring modern applications on the web.

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Let's explore Altinity for blazing fast database performance! Real-time analytics & open source explained.

 

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April 8, 2025 8 mins

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 "blooper" at the end.

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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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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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January 21, 2025 29 mins

🚀 **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, wher...

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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 uni...

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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.

 

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November 19, 2024 21 mins

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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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 setu...

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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.

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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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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.

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Insights on Scaling Kubernetes

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