Podcast appearances and mentions of Mark Tomlinson

We chat to Mark Tomlinson about his playing, young horses, horse management and of course the impact his mother had on him and polo.We´d love to hear from you.  Please drop us a line on Instagram @nrg_podcast email us podcastnrg@gmail.com or follow us on Facebook.Thank you so much for listeningLots of loveNick, Ross and Glen

On this week's episode of Sense by Meg Faure, we delve into the fascinating world of infant development and nurturing secure attachment with Professor Mark Tomlinson. Professor Tomlinson is a leading researcher from Stellenbosch University with over three decades of experience. Understanding Secure Attachment Professor Tomlinson emphasizes the importance of secure attachment in an infant's early life. Professor Tomlinson highlights that attachment begins even before birth, during pregnancy, as parents start imagining and bonding with their unborn child. After birth, this attachment continues to develop through the caregiver's consistent and responsive care. Secure attachment lays the foundation for a child's emotional and social health, influencing their ability to regulate form healthy relationships. The Role of Co-Regulation and Self-Regulation A major theme discussed is the concept of co-regulation and its evolution into self-regulation. In the early months, parents play a crucial role in regulating their infant's emotions and needs. Over time, as infants grow, they gradually learn to self-soothe and manage their emotions, a process that continues well into adolescence. Professor Tomlinson highlights the importance of allowing children to experience failures and learn from them, fostering resilience and self-regulation skills. Navigating Parenting Challenges We explore the challenges parents face in deciding how much responsibility to take versus allowing their child to self-regulate. Professor Tomlinson discusses various parenting approaches, including controlled crying and attachment parenting, advising that no single method is correct. Instead, parents should trust their instincts and adapt their approach based on their child's needs and their unique relationship. Long-Term Impact of Secure Attachment Professor Tomlinson shares insights from his longitudinal research, showing the long-term benefits of secure attachment. He explains how securely attached children are better equipped to handle social interactions, manage emotions, and succeed academically. This episode is a must-listen for anyone who want to understand the crucial role of secure attachment in their child's development. Professor Tomlinson's insights offer practical advice on fostering a healthy parent-child relationship, managing the challenges of early parenting, and supporting long-term emotional well-being. Tune in to gain valuable knowledge that can help you navigate the complexities of raising a resilient and well-adjusted child.

It is like a yearly performance meetup for Mark and Leandro at #StarEast conferences.They both presented tutorials, witnessed awesome questions, people and trends in the conference.Check out their insights, learnings, teachings, ponderations, and of course goofiness.

Our guest for today is Mark Tomlinson! He's a Performance Engineer and Consultor with more than 20 years of experience in the field. He's the creator of the term Performacology which he'll be explaining all about in today's episode.

201 is the HTTP status code for Resource Created. It is also the number of PurePerformance Episodes (including this one) we have published over the past years. None better to invite than the person who initially inspired us to launch PurePerformance: Mark Tomlinson, Performacologist and Director of Observability at FreedomPayTune in and listen to our thoughts on current state of automation, a recap on IFTTT, whether we believe that AIs such as CoPilot will not only make us more efficient in creating code and scripts but also lead to new ways of automation. We also give a heads-up (or rather a recap) of what Mark will be presenting on at Perform 2024.To learn more about and from Mark follow him on the various social media channels:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mtomlins/Performacology: https://performacology.com/

Mark and leandro were at StarEast conference 2023 and talked a lot about performance, conferences and much more fun!We are getting some more PerfBytes!

Continuando las aventuras en Uruguay, despues de Las Mujeres del WOPR, le tocó participar a los hombres.Discutimos de que se trata el WOPR, las experiencias de cada quien y expectativas que nos llevamos despues del evento.Un agradecimiento a MArk Tomlinson por las tomas especiales.

In this episode, I'll speak with 12 speakers (Federico Toledo, Mark Tomlinson, Leandro Melendez, Henrik Rexed, Anisbert Suárez, Roger Abelenda, Laura Gayo, Nicolás Paez, Lucía Lavagna, Gerencia, Vera Babat, Mercedes Quintero Martínez & Andy Hohenner) from the upcoming Quality Sense Conference in Uruguay on Dec 9th. Many of the sessions taking place cover Performance and SRE-related topics. I had planned on being there myself, but I have other commitments I need to honor, BUT it's not too late for you. I had planned on being there myself, but I have other commitments I need to honor, BUT it's not too late for you. After listening to this episode to the end, go to QualitySenseConf.com and register for free to attend this conference in person or watch it online. Discover more about OpenTelemetry, performance testing, measure and metrics, Chaos Engineering, and more.  

On this week's episode of Coffee with Closers, we talk with Mark Tomlinson, the Administrator of a remote British outpost in the South Pacific called Pitcairn Islands. It is one of the few places in the world that hasn't had a single confirmed case of COVID-19. Tomlinson discusses his day-to-day duties as Administrator of an Island of approximately 50 people and the challenging but necessary task of getting Covid vaccines from the UK all the way to Pitcairn. He also talked about his professional life as a British Foreign Service Officer.

If there is one thing you take away from this episode then the answer to “Why we should refrain from Reply All on company wide emails”. Jokes aside – as security and performance are not always funny!In this special anniversary episode we have Mark Tomlinson, System Performance Specialist, talking about the considerations and trade-offs between performance and security. We learn about performance vulnerabilities and why it is important to factor in the additional overhead each layer of security adds to your application stack. It's always a pleasure having Mark on the show – whether it was in the past, present or will be in the future.If you want to learn more from Mark on the topic of performance make sure to check out PerfBytes that has inspired us to launch PurePerformance.Show Links:Mark Tomlinson on Linkedinhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/mtomlins/PerfByteshttps://www.perfbytes.com/

We first of all must apologise for our slack and slow releases of the pod this season!This last instalment however is a ripper!Mark Tomlinson InterviewRumour MillNewsEnjoy!

Rabbi Lynn discusses Jewish life, Covid, dating, and jobs with young Jewish professionals (just like you!) from England! Guests: Denis Mayer and Mark Tomlinson. Aired live 3/10/21

Get ready for the PAC Hero festival. In this episode, Henrik Rexed will share all the reasons why this is a must-attend event. Discover what’s new in performance engineering for experts worldwide like Scott Moore, Leandro Melendez, Mark Tomlinson, and more. Listen in to hear the latest hot trends, and why performance from a code perspective is also essential at this year’s PAC.

If you’ve been a performance tester for a while, you’ve probably noticed that the design of the web pages you need to test has significantly changed over the last ten years. In this episode, listen in to a recent Neotys PAC meetup hosted by Henrik Rexed (I was a guest, along with Leandro Melendez, Alexander Podelko, Mark Tomlinson, Ian Molyneaux, Bruno Audoux, Scott Stevens, Arthur Luimes and David Jones) about browser rendering and DOM loading performance. Discover some performance engineering tips on how to properly performance test modern web applications. Listen up!

Mark Tomlinson and James Pulley join Brian to discuss how Varnish and Squid Cache can be helpful both in the context of website performance as well as the work-from-home situation many of us find ourselves in.

Mark Tomlinson, the Perf Sherpa, and Leandro Melendez, Señor Performo, join host Brian Wilson, the Irreverend, to answer the question:In the context of SAFe, where does the responsibility of performance, reliability, scalability lie?

Today we’ll open up the Test Guild vault for an interview I did with Mark Tomlinson five years ago about performance testing as a team sport. Mark is a performance engineering and software testing enthusiast, and co-founder of the popular PerfBytes podcasts. In this episode, Mark shares how to get your team to adopt modern performance testing and engineering strategies, practices, and behaviors for better performing technology. I think this message is needed even more than ever, and that’s why I’m re-sharing it with you.

Wait! What? This is our 100th Episode of PurePerformance? For this special anniversary we invited Mark Tomlinson, Performacologist & “The Performance Sherpa”, who also inspired us through his PerfBytes Podcast to run our own PurePerformance Podcast.While we start with talking about performance in podcasting we move over to learning more about how Mark is establishing a Continuous Performance process at his current employer. We learn about new ways to do performance engineering in a continuous way, how to integrate it with your monitoring and why it is not always important to run the big load tests but rather focus on short feedback cycles.We want to give Mark credit for what he has done for the performance community and use this to say THANK YOU!! Hope to have you back for many more episodes to come and definitely for episode 200!https://www.linkedin.com/in/perfsherpa/https://www.perfbytes.com/

Wait! What? This is our 100th Episode of PurePerformance? For this special anniversary we invited Mark Tomlinson, Performacologist & “The Performance Sherpa”, who also inspired us through his PerfBytes Podcast to run our own PurePerformance Podcast.While we start with talking about performance in podcasting we move over to learning more about how Mark is establishing a Continuous Performance process at his current employer. We learn about new ways to do performance engineering in a continuous way, how to integrate it with your monitoring and why it is not always important to run the big load tests but rather focus on short feedback cycles.We want to give Mark credit for what he has done for the performance community and use this to say THANK YOU!! Hope to have you back for many more episodes to come and definitely for episode 200!https://www.linkedin.com/in/perfsherpa/https://www.perfbytes.com/

In this episode, listen in on one of Perf Guild online conferences’ Ask Us Anything roundtables with Scott Barber and Mark Tomlinson. Scott is the founder of PerfTestPlus, and Mark is a host at PerfBytes, so they’re both performance testing uber-experts. Learn more about using functional automation scripts for performance testing, the future of performance testing, ways to get started with performance testing, and much, much more. Also, listen up to find out how performance testing is similar to pipes and balloon animals.

Brian Wilson and Mark Tomlinson dive into the wonderful world of testing applications that are running on the Kubernetes platform and what additional aspects should be considered when running performance tests.

There are many uses of think time, and there are choices to be made when analyzing results. Join Brian Wilson and this episode's guest, Mark Tomlinson, as we discuss the question "Does including think time impact the test results for analysis purposes?"

In this episode of Ask PerfBytes, Mark Tomlinson joins me answer the question, "How do I retrain my service virtualization?"

We're back from a brief hiatus with - unbelievably - a film which actually deeply relates to testing! We're joined by Mark Tomlinson, who brings his own experiences of dealing with the National Transportation Safety Board, to discuss a film about a remarkable moment of true-life heroism, and the decisions that we make in the heat of the moment. The events of the movie give us a chance to get into in-depth discussions about the challenges of testing within regulated industries, developing risk mitigation strategies in life-critical environments, debugging/monitoring, and whether quality is a team effort. There are remarkably few distractions, although we get into some meta-discussion about whether it was correct to portray the NTSB as pantomime villains, a general critique of Clint Eastwood's agenda, a surprising number of references to metallurgy, and we give Mark an introduction to 1980s UK gameshows. YouTube trailers for films mentioned: Equity Miss Sloane Flight Unforgiven Bridges of Madison County Every Which Way But Loose Million Dollar Baby The 15:17 To Paris Gran Torino Ex Machina Deepwater Horizon Runaway Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle Miscellaneous links: Amazon.co.uk: Captain Chesley B Sullenberger III - Highest Duty TestBash Philadelphia 2017 TestBash San Francisco 2018 Del Dewar - Dressing Up the Spinning Cat Wikipedia: Yanny or Laurel Wikipedia: US Airways Flight 1549 National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Wikipedia: 2015 Shoreham Airshow crash AP News: Real-life investigators object to portrayal in 'Sully' movie Federal Aviation Administration Wikipedia: Hagiography YouTube: Clint Eastwood RNC speech interviewing an empty chair Earwolf: James Bonding podcast /r/MovieDetails: Poster for Gran Torino visible in Sully YouTube: Eddie Izzard - Glorious (Birdstrike) YouTube: Agile Testing Days 2015: Richard Bradshaw - Automation in Testing YouTube: Brendan Gregg - Shouting in the Datacenter YouTube: Austin Powers (1, not 2!) - Bathroom Break YouTube: Sully EPIC SPEECH Wikipedia: The Krypton Factor YouTube: The Krypton Factor - Flight simulator round YouTube: The Krypton Factor - Rearranging perspex shapes YouTube: The Krypton Factor - Tony Slattery and Roger Lloyd Pack in "Dead Ringer" sketch RailPlan 2020 Twitters: @MarkOnTask @TheTestDoctor @neilstudd Emails:screentestingpod@gmail.com Intro music: Christian Jacob - Sully Suite Outro music: Christian Jacob - Flying Home (Sully's Theme)

Pop quiz, hotshot! You want to record a new podcast episode, but you also want a break from some of the darker plots that you've talked about recently. Plus, you're snowed-in at home. What do you do? Dan and Neil decide not to shoot the hostage, but to instead kick back with a discussion about Speed. In an episode recorded at the beginning of March (hence some timeline discrepancies and weird Oscar predictions), they find many parallels with Die Hard, and manage to work-in a surprising number of testing elements, including setting/reviewing acceptance criteria, pairing in the workplace, communicating information, and using psychology to analyse a situation. Miscellaneous Links: BBC News: The Beast from the East How Did This Get Made? podcast Den of Geek: The strange history of the Die Hard movies  Dailymotion: Mythbusters - Speed Bus Jump TV Tropes: Camera Spoofing Dailymotion: The A-Team: Trouble Brewing (skip to 34:00 for the Polaroid scene) YouTube: The West Wing - In Excelsis Deo (Richard Schiff Emmy win) The West Wing Weekly podcast YouTube: Austin Powers - Head Puns Films and TV shows mentioned: Die Hard 2 The Thing Pingu Speed 2: Cruise Control The Net The Lake House Jurassic Park Twister Independence Day Die Hard Black Rain The Hunt For Red October Basic Instinct The Jewel Of The Nile The Matrix Point Break Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure The Haunting Under Siege Equilibrium Minority Report Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life Tomb Raider (2018) The Rock Swordfish The Martian Ferris Bueller's Day Off Star Trek: Generations The Corner The Wire Lenny The Wonder Dog I, Tonya The Hateful Eight Lady Bird Game Night The Game The Mercy Finding Your Feet As hinted near the end, our next episode will be based on the true-life story of SULLY with special guest Mark Tomlinson! Twitters: @ScreenTesting @TheTestDoctor @neilstudd Emails: screentestingpod@gmail.com Intro music: Mark Mancina - Speed (Main Title) Outro music: Billy Idol - Speed

Returning host Mark Tomlinson (@markontask) and Paul Grizzaffi chat about testing automation and taking the responsibility to only apply it when appropriate. Also, gain a better understanding about the importance of the "language of testing"... Listen to this episode as Paul provides a little insight into his Keynote at the upcoming STPCon in the DC Metro Area (Sept. 25-29). Learn more about Paul's sessions and the conference at: http://www.stpcon.com/speakers/paul-grizzaffi/https://responsibleautomation.wordpress.com/

Returning host Mark Tomlinson (@markontask) and Paul Grizzaffi chat about testing automation and taking the responsibility to only apply it when appropriate. Also, gain a better understanding about the importance of the "language of testing"... Listen to this episode as Paul provides a little insight into his Keynote at the upcoming STPCon in the DC Metro Area (Sept. 25-29). Learn more about Paul's sessions and the conference at: http://www.stpcon.com/speakers/paul-grizzaffi/https://responsibleautomation.wordpress.com/

Always enjoy catching up system performance guru, bon vivant, and one of the nicest guys in our business, Mark Tomlinson. Aside from discussing his responsibility for getting this "podcast" interview series started, we have an extending discussion on "thought leaders" and expertise, innovation, ethics, and whats with all those "boring" testing conferences! (FWIW I had to cut over 30 mins of laughing, joking, and cross talk at the beginning and end of this!) Enjoy part one!

Always enjoy catching up system performance guru, bon vivant, and one of the nicest guys in our business, Mark Tomlinson. Aside from discussing his responsibility for getting this "podcast" interview series started, we have an extending discussion on "thought leaders" and expertise, innovation, ethics, and whats with all those "boring" testing conferences! (FWIW I had to cut over 30 mins of laughing, joking, and cross talk at the beginning and end of this!) Enjoy part one!

In the second episode with Rick Boyd (check out his GitHub repo - https://github.com/DJRickyB ) we talk about how performance engineering evolved over time – especially in an agile and DevOps setting. It’s about how to evolve your traditional performance testing towards injecting performance engineering into your organizational DNA, providing performance engineering as a service. Making it easy accessible to developers whenever they need performance feedback. Rick gives us insights on how he is currently transforming performance engineering at IBM Watson. We also gave a couple of shout outs to Mark Tomlinson and his take on Performance in a DevOps world!

In the second episode with Rick Boyd (check out his GitHub repo - https://github.com/DJRickyB ) we talk about how performance engineering evolved over time – especially in an agile and DevOps setting. It’s about how to evolve your traditional performance testing towards injecting performance engineering into your organizational DNA, providing performance engineering as a service. Making it easy accessible to developers whenever they need performance feedback. Rick gives us insights on how he is currently transforming performance engineering at IBM Watson. We also gave a couple of shout outs to Mark Tomlinson and his take on Performance in a DevOps world!

Recorded live with guests at the TestBash Brighton Open Space on Saturday 25th March 2017. Expect some occasionally dubious sound quality, and some strong language, as we try our best to unravel the story behind the Star Wars Holiday Special. We focus on the "requirements" and the various different audiences for the show, wondering whether any of them would have been impressed that the previous summer's breakout sci-fi hit had been watered-down into a variety show format. There are thoughts about whether George Lucas was paying attention, the role of pornography in the Star Wars universe, and a heated debate around whether Han Solo was again denied credit for a killing (this time denied by clumsy footwork and shoddy craftsmanship). Huge thanks to our special guests during this episode: Paul Holland (@PaulHolland_TWN) Mike Talks (@TestSheepNZ) Gem Hill (@Gem_Hill) Melissa Eaden (@melthetester) Mark Tomlinson (@mark_on_task) Del Dewar (@deefex) Vernon Richards (@TesterFromLeic) Clips: At the time of writing, the Star Wars Holiday Special is available on YouTube for those who dare. The clips that we talk about during this episode can be found at the following timestamps: 12:10 - Chewie's family calls Luke Skywalker 50:30 - Lumpy watches a (quite good) Star Wars cartoon 22:16 - Chef Gormaanda brings us STIR WHIP WHIP STIR 28:20 - Itchy watches a VR fantasy program 1:22:25 - Stormtrooper death: Did he trip, or was he pushed? 1:30:58 - Princess Leia sings a song to the tune of the Star Wars theme Further reading/watching: Mental Floss: An Oral History of the Star Wars Holiday Special HBO: Bright Lights (Debbie Reynolds & Carrie Fisher documentary) Snopes: Van Halen's Concert Contract Required No Brown M&Ms? We'll be back in the studio next time to talk about EX_MACHINA - see you in a fortnight! Our Twitters: @ScreenTesting @TheTestDoctor@neilstudd Intro music: Star Wars Holiday Special main theme Outro music: Supernova - Chewbacca

Mark Tomlinson, still a veteran and performance god, is enlightening us on his concept of Continuous Acceleration of Performance. Continuous Delivery is all about getting faster feedback from code changes as code gets deployed faster in smaller increments to the end user. One aspect that is often left out is feedback on performance metrics and behavior. In the “old days” performance feedback was given very late – either in the load testing phase at the end of the project lifecycle or even as late as when it hits production. That could be too late and it makes it hard to fix the root cause.Listen to our conversation on how to accelerate performance related feedback loops without getting overwhelmed with too much data!

Mark Tomlinson, still a veteran and performance god, is enlightening us on his concept of Continuous Acceleration of Performance. Continuous Delivery is all about getting faster feedback from code changes as code gets deployed faster in smaller increments to the end user. One aspect that is often left out is feedback on performance metrics and behavior. In the “old days” performance feedback was given very late – either in the load testing phase at the end of the project lifecycle or even as late as when it hits production. That could be too late and it makes it hard to fix the root cause.Listen to our conversation on how to accelerate performance related feedback loops without getting overwhelmed with too much data!

Mark Tomlinson, “a veteran” in Performance Engineering, discusses how DevOps is a big opportunity for performance engineering – but also a threat for many that have been in the business for a long time. The big question is: are “traditional performance engineers” using their Load Runners or SilkPerformers at the end of the project lifecycle ready to change? Ready to learn new tools? Ready to think about automating performance engineering into the delivery pipeline and doing that in collaboration with the rest of the engineering team? Ready to “Check your Ego at the door”?Listen to our conversation where we also discuss how these roles have changed in organizations we recently interacted with.

Mark Tomlinson, “a veteran” in Performance Engineering, discusses how DevOps is a big opportunity for performance engineering – but also a threat for many that have been in the business for a long time. The big question is: are “traditional performance engineers” using their Load Runners or SilkPerformers at the end of the project lifecycle ready to change? Ready to learn new tools? Ready to think about automating performance engineering into the delivery pipeline and doing that in collaboration with the rest of the engineering team? Ready to “Check your Ego at the door”?Listen to our conversation where we also discuss how these roles have changed in organizations we recently interacted with.

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The always entertaining Eric Proegler, Mark Tomlinson, James Pulley chat with Smita Mishra on another STP Radio episode. Listen in and find out how infuriating Mark's performance puzzler workshop will be, how to interpret performance results with Eric, and how James' workshop will enable you to look at the "application exhaust" to expose defects. There is so much more to this episode - listen now! Don't forget, time is getting short for you to be able to attend STPCon in Dallas this September 19-22. Don't delay, register today!Learn More: http://www.STPCon.com

The always entertaining Eric Proegler, Mark Tomlinson, James Pulley chat with Smita Mishra on another STP Radio episode. Listen in and find out how infuriating Mark's performance puzzler workshop will be, how to interpret performance results with Eric, and how James' workshop will enable you to look at the "application exhaust" to expose defects. There is so much more to this episode - listen now! Don't forget, time is getting short for you to be able to attend STPCon in Dallas this September 19-22. Don't delay, register today!Learn More: http://www.STPCon.com

STPCon is considered as one of the top software testing conferences to attend in the testing industry. The biggest reason for this are our workshop and session leaders. This Spring STPCon proves to be no exception, especially in the area of Performance Testing. Listen to the latest episode of STP Radio and hear from three of the most experienced and well seasoned Performance Testing Professionals in the business. Mike Lyles talks with Andi Grabner, Eric Proegler and Mark Tomlinson about their workshops and sessions coming up this April 4-7 at the Westin San Francisco Airport Hotel… www.STPCon.com

STPCon is considered as one of the top software testing conferences to attend in the testing industry. The biggest reason for this are our workshop and session leaders. This Spring STPCon proves to be no exception, especially in the area of Performance Testing. Listen to the latest episode of STP Radio and hear from three of the most experienced and well seasoned Performance Testing Professionals in the business. Mike Lyles talks with Andi Grabner, Eric Proegler and Mark Tomlinson about their workshops and sessions coming up this April 4-7 at the Westin San Francisco Airport Hotel… www.STPCon.com

We recorded our Keynote speakers at STPCon Spring 2015 in San Diego and are making them available to our community. Check this one out! Listen to Mark Tomlinson deliver his keynote address: It’s Non-Functional, not Dysfunctional. Read the full description of Mark's address and see his presentation here: http://www.stpcon.com/sessions/its-non-functional-not-dysfunctional/

We recorded our Keynote speakers at STPCon Spring 2015 in San Diego and are making them available to our community. Check this one out! Listen to Mark Tomlinson deliver his keynote address: It’s Non-Functional, not Dysfunctional. Read the full description of Mark's address and see his presentation here: http://www.stpcon.com/sessions/its-non-functional-not-dysfunctional/

Iron and manganese are the two key ingredients that enabled the mass production of steel - one of the most versatile and complex materials known to humanity. Justin Rowlatt chews on salad leaves with Andrea Sella of University College London, who explains how manganese is present in all plants and plays a key part in photosynthesis and ultimately oxygen production.He also travels to Sheffield to visit a modern steelworks - the specialist engineering steel-maker Forgemasters - where Peter Birtles and Mark Tomlinson give a taste of just how hard it is to produce unbreakable parts for nuclear power stations and oil rigs.

It's time for PerfBytes Live at the STPCON conference in Denver, Colorado! In the unseasonably warm November 2014 this is a recording of the live broadcast of the PerfBytes podcast with your abstractly random hosts Mark Tomlinson, James Pulley and guest host Howard Chorney covering the conference hot topics such as continuous continuousness, performance puzzlers, Denver police swat teams and PRONQ. We have two unusually novel additions to the News of The Damned and as always we give away a pair of PerfBytes shoes to innocent audience members. As supporters of the Software Test Professionals performance testing community, the PerfBytes podcast is powered by creative community-driven contributions and the overwhelming desire to improve performance testing practices across our industry. And pancakes.

It's time for PerfBytes Live at the STPCON conference in Denver, Colorado! In the unseasonably warm November 2014 this is a recording of the live broadcast of the PerfBytes podcast with your abstractly random hosts Mark Tomlinson, James Pulley and guest host Howard Chorney covering the conference hot topics such as continuous continuousness, performance puzzlers, Denver police swat teams and PRONQ. We have two unusually novel additions to the News of The Damned and as always we give away a pair of PerfBytes shoes to innocent audience members. As supporters of the Software Test Professionals performance testing community, the PerfBytes podcast is powered by creative community-driven contributions and the overwhelming desire to improve performance testing practices across our industry. And pancakes.

Five years into its existence, TxDOT and the Central Texas Turnpike Authority are considering the SH 130 Toll Road in the Austin area to be a huge success ... except with truckers. As a result, the Texas Transportation Commission, TxDOTs governing body, voted in February to reduce the toll rate for trucks on the SH 130 and SH 45 toll roads in hopes of luring some of the trucks away from the congestion on I-35 throughout the greater Austin area. For more on this decision, I spoke with Mark Tomlinson, the Director of TxDOTs Texas Turnpike Authority.