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Best podcasts about perfmatters

Latest podcast episodes about perfmatters

PurePerformance
Organizational Sustainability through Platform Engineering with Lesley Cordero

PurePerformance

Play Episode Listen Later May 12, 2025 42:00


As a leader that wants to optimize an organization you are bound to fail if you isolate social (culture and people) and technical (tools and process) changes. When we ask Lesley Cordero, Staff Engineer at The New York Times how to solve this dilemma she answers: "Platform Engineering, it can drive organizational sustainability by practicing sociotechnical principles that provide a community driven support system for application developers using our standardized shared platform architecture"Tune in to our latest episode and learn more about the importance of leadership to continuously keep up and balance the tension between "Developers" and "Operations", between "End User Experience" and "Developer Experience" and ultimately between "Culture and People and "Tools and Processes"Links we discussedLesley's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lesleycordero/GOTO Conference Talk => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jx-XrUONJ-o QCon 2025 Talk Details: https://qconlondon.com/presentation/apr2025/platform-engineering-practice-sociotechnical-excellence DevOpsCon 2024 Talk Details: https://devopscon.io/business-company-culture/platform-engineering-devops/

PurePerformance
The History & Power of Distributed Tracing with Christoph Neumueller & Thomas Rothschaedl

PurePerformance

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 31, 2025 56:19


So you think Distributed Tracing is the new thing? Well - its not! But its never been as exciting as today!In this episode we combine 50 years of Distributed Tracing experience across our guests and hosts. We invited Christoph Neumueller and Thomas Rothschaedl who have seen the early days of agent-based instrumentation, how global standards like the W3C Trace Context allowed tracing to connect large enterprise systems and how OpenTelemetry is commoditizing data collection across all tech stacks.Tune in and learn about the difference between spans and traces, why collecting the data is only part of the story, how to combat the challenge when dealing with too much data and how traces relate and connect to logs, metrics and events.Links we discussedYouTube with Christoph: LINK WILL FOLLOW ONCE VIDEO IS POSTEDChristoph's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christophneumueller/Thomas's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rothschaedl/

PurePerformance
An Inside Look into Platform Engineering for Architects with the authors Max, Hilliary & Andi

PurePerformance

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 17, 2025 59:14


In the ever-changing IT world, it's hard to create content that stays relevant for long. One of the objectives of "Platform Engineering for Architects: Crafting Modern Platforms as a Product" was to stay timeless by providing practical examples of use cases that are not necessarily tied to current technology trends.The book focuses on the importance of building a platform with a purpose, making the impact measurable and making sure the platform continuous evolves by continuously including the end users (the engineering teams) in the evolution of the platform.Tune in to this episode and hear from Max Körbächer (Founder of Liquid Reply), Hilliary Lipsig (Senior Principal SRE at RedHat) and Andi Grabner (Co-Host of PurePerformance) on what made them write a book on Platform Engineering and get some personal insights into what gets the authors excited about their respective topics.If you have a chance meet Max, Hilliary and Andi at KubeCon in London. They will present at Platform Engineering Day and will also do a book signing at KubeCrawl!Links we discussed:Book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Platform-Engineering-Architects-Crafting-platforms-ebook/dp/B0DH5DJFTHPlatform Engineering Day Session: https://colocatedeventseu2025.sched.com/event/1u5mX/platform-engineering-for-architects-crafting-platforms-as-a-product-max-korbacher-liquid-reply-hilliary-lipsig-red-hatHilliary Lipsig: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hilliary-lipsig-a5935245/Max Körbächer: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maxkoerbaecher/Andi Grabner: https://www.linkedin.com/in/grabnerandi/

Do the Woo - A WooCommerce Podcast
Behind the Code, Brian Jackson on WordPress and WooCommerce Optimization

Do the Woo - A WooCommerce Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 14, 2024 53:03


In this episode of Woo DevChat we chat with Brian about optimizing WooCommerce sites, the Perfmatters plugin, and the importance of customer support.

Do the Woo - A WooCommerce Podcast
Behind the Code, Brian Jackson on WordPress and WooCommerce Optimization

Do the Woo - A WooCommerce Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 14, 2024 53:03


In this episode of Woo DevChat we chat with Brian about optimizing WooCommerce sites, the Perfmatters plugin, and the importance of customer support.

PurePerformance
From Performance Testing to Designing for Performance with Ernst Ambichl

PurePerformance

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 22, 2024 51:45


Use Things you Understand! Learn the fundamentals to understand the layers of abstraction! And remember that we don't live in a world with unlimited resources!These are advice from our recent conversation with Ernst Ambichl, Chief Product Architect at Dynatrace, who has started his performance career in the late 80s building the first load testing tools for databases which later became one of the most successful performance engineering tools in the market.Tune in and learn about how Ernst has evolved from being a performance engineer to become an advocate for "Designing and Architecting for Performance". Ernst explains how important good upfront analysis of performance requirements and characteristics of the underlying infrastructure is, how to define baselines and constantly evaluate your changes against your goals.On a personal note: I want to say THANK YOU Ernst for being one of my personal mentors over the past 20+ years. You inspired me with your passion about performance and building resilient systems

The Authority Hacker Podcast
#331 - Site Speed Nerd Roasts Our Site

The Authority Hacker Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 26, 2024 79:36


Did you know that Google is about to introduce a new web vital metric?

PurePerformance
Don't burst in Flames: 20 years of Performance Engineering with Martin Spier

PurePerformance

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 23, 2023 49:43


Martin Spier was one of six engineers to take care of all of Netflix Operations about 10 years ago. Back then performance and observability tools weren't as sophisticated and didn't scale to the needs of Netflix as some do today. FlameScope was one of the Open Source projects that evolved out of that period, visualizing Flame Graphs on a time-scaled heatmap to identify specific performance patterns that caused issues in their complex systems back then.Tune in to this episode and hear more performance and observability stories from Martin, about his early days in Brazil, his time at Expedia and Netflix and about his current role as VP of Engineering at PicPay - one of the hottest fin techs in Brazil.More links we discussed:Performance Summit talk about FlameCommander: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L58GrWcrD00CMG Impact talk on Real User Monitoring at Netflix: https://www.cmg.org/2019/04/impact-2019-real-user-performance-monitoring-at-netflix-scale/Learn more about Vector: https://netflixtechblog.com/extending-vector-with-ebpf-to-inspect-host-and-container-performance-5da3af4c584bMartin's GitHub: https://github.com/spiermarConnect with him on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martinspier/

The WP Minute+
The Impact of AI on Content Marketing w/ Brian Jackson

The WP Minute+

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 2, 2023 36:09


I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Brian Jackson, co-founder of Forge Media and creator of the popular WordPress plugins NovaShare and Perfmatters. Brian has extensive experience building successful products and businesses in the WordPress space.In our wide-ranging conversation, we discussed several important topics relevant to the WordPress community right now:Using AI to Enhance Content CreationBoth Brian and I have begun experimenting with AI tools like ChatGPT and Bard to improve our content workflows. He uses a "hybrid approach", leveraging AI to generate ideas and drafts but still adding his own personal touch. I completely agree that carefully crafted prompts are key to getting good results from AI. Neither of us is yet comfortable publishing fully AI-written content.The Impact of AI on the Future of WordPressWe speculated about how advanced AI could enable automated site building outside of WordPress in the future. However, Brian emphasized that niche complexities of WordPress will be difficult for AI to grasp anytime soon. Monetization and Support for Plugin BusinessesBrian explained why he avoids "lifetime deal" pricing for his products, despite it being common for WordPress plugins. While tempting for short-term revenue, it removes incentive for ongoing improvement. He believes subscribers should continue supporting developers to allow constant iteration. Still, he limits sales to just the major Black Friday promotion each year.Key Takeaways AI can help generate ideas and drafts, but human refinement is still needed WordPress niche complexity means AI won't replace it soon JavaScript skills are critical for WordPress developers now "Lifetime deal" pricing removes incentive for ongoing development Limiting sales promotes sustainable growth over quick cash grabs Quotables"I don't think a lot of people know a hundred percent. You can't say yes or no, you know, will Google know this is written by me or not?""WordPress is just a mess, to be honest, for the people that are in the weeds every day, like grinding, like they know how messy WordPress is.""If you have a good product, like why do you need to constantly push sales? It doesn't make sense. ★ Support this podcast ★

PurePerformance
What happened in 2022 and where 2023 is taking us!

PurePerformance

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 1, 2023 42:25


What a year 2022 was! We had 25! episodes with amazing guests from all over the world covering topics from Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, DevOps, SRE, Cloud Migrations, DNS, Value Streams all the way to Persona Driven Engineering and drawing parallels with Digital Marketing. If you are new to our podcast check out the playlist and listen to some of those we mentioned during our episode!Now its time to say Thank You listeners for the continued support. After 5+ years of podcasting we still see rising numbers of downloads which is the best motivation for us to keep going. Stay tuned as we are going to cover industry relevant topics going into 2023 – or is it year 53? (only those will know that listen to the full episode)

WP-Tonic Show A WordPress Podcast
659 WP-Tonic This Week in WordPress & SaaS With Special Guest Brian Jackson of Forgemedia

WP-Tonic Show A WordPress Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 20, 2022 34:14


As a Small Player Can You Succeed In The WordPress Ecosystem In 2022? Brian Jackson is the joint founder with his brother of Forgemedia a WordPress focus plugin shop that has a small but interesting library of commercial plugins. Also, Brian was for a period of time the chief marketing officer at Kinsta and was one of the key people in Kinsta connected to helping it grow as one of the leading WordPress managed-to-host providers in the last 5 years. Here is a list of their plugins Novashare: https://novashare.io/ Perfmatters: https://perfmatters.io/ WP-Coupons: https://wpcoupons.io/

The Online Course Show
177: Make Your Site Insanely Fast in Just 10 Minutes (I Achieved a Speed Score of 100)

The Online Course Show

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2021 19:15


In this episode I share with you an awesome 3 step process to achieve amazing website speed: 1 – NitroPack (https://oc.show/nitro) 2 – Cloudflare Advanced WordPress optimization 3 – Perfmatters plugin (https://perfmatters.io)

The Online Course Show
177: Make Your Site Insanely Fast in Just 10 Minutes (I Achieved a Speed Score of 100)

The Online Course Show

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2021 19:15


  In this episode I share with you an awesome 3 step process to achieve amazing website speed: 1 – NitroPack (https://oc.show/nitro) 2 – Cloudflare Advanced WordPress optimization 3 – Perfmatters plugin (https://perfmatters.io)

WordPress Plugins from A to Z
Interview 57 with Brian Jackson from ForgeMedia – PerfMatters Plugin

WordPress Plugins from A to Z

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 14, 2021 18:33


Today's interview is with Brian Jackson https://perfmatters.io/ This was a great interview talking about the plugin and it orgins. Main Talking Points: Perfmatters plugin: “https://perfmatters.io/ highlighting changes happening with Google Core Web Vitals and WordPress performance in general. Now that Core Web Vitals is a ranking factor, performance is more important than ever. And dealing […] For more articles visit WordPress Specialist with a focus on... - WordPress Training, Classes and Emergency Support... for more articles like Interview 57 with Brian Jackson from ForgeMedia – PerfMatters Plugin.

PurePerformance
Shift-Left Load Testing is a LIE with Hassy Veldstra

PurePerformance

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 5, 2021 46:00


In his SLOConf talk Production load testing as a guardrail for SLOs and in his blog Production Load Testing, Hassy Veldstra, founder of artillery.io makes the case for load testing in production. It helped him in various organizations to establish SLOs (Service Level Objectives) and change the way engineers think about performance. He got inspired by Building Evolutionary Architectures which introduces the concept of performance as a fitness function.Tune in into our conversation, hear our arguments pro and contra load testing in the various environments and learn why in the end we agreed on the fact that SLOs – while nothing really new – are a great chance to re-define performance engineering.Linkedinhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/hveldstra/SLOconf: Production load testing as a guardrail for SLOs - by Hassy Veldstrahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y20K1mJB6tkBlog: Load testing. In production.http://veldstra.org/production-load-testing/Artillery Websitehttps://artillery.io/Book: Building Evolutionary Architectureshttps://www.thoughtworks.com/books/building-evolutionary-architectures

PerfBytes
Revisiting Performance Test Plans

PerfBytes

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 22, 2021 51:23


In this episode, Leandro (AKA Señor Performo) and Henrik Rexed (the new member of the PerfBytes family) will revisit together with a video version, a topic that never gets old. Performance test plans!They will list and briefly describe the main elements of this sacred document you need to have at hand for all your performance testing efforts. Do not go outside naked without a performance test plan!

PurePerformance
How to scale Performance Engineering in enterprises with Roman Ferstl

PurePerformance

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 12, 2021 54:02


Performance Engineering is not about running a performance test twice a year. That is just a poor attempt trying to validate your non functional requirements.Roman Ferstl, Managing Directory at Triscon, has discovered his love for performance engineering while optimizing code for software used in a space program. He then founded Triscon who is now helping to establish and scale performance engineering at large enterprises. In this episode we get his insights on how he approaches a new project, which bottlenecks to address first and how to motivate more people within an organization to invest in performance engineering.If you want to learn more don’t miss to check out Roman’s presentation from Perform 2021 titled “Turbocharging your Performance Engineering teams to scale efficiently”https://www.linkedin.com/in/roman-ferstl/https://www.triscon-it.com/en/https://perform.dynatrace.com/2021-americas/breakouts-single-day-3-turbocharging-your-performance-engineering-teams

PurePerformance
What is Data-Driven Continuous Delivery aka CDv2 with Tracy Ragan

PurePerformance

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 11, 2021 46:50


When moving to microservice architectures its time to re-think continuous delivery. Just as many software services rely on a core data analytics engine to make better automated decisions we need to apply the same for continuous delivery. We can assess the risk of every microservice deployment based on data from production and the desired change of configuration. We can assess the potential blast radius and mitigate it through modern delivery options such as blue/green, canaries or feature flags.Tracy Ragan, Creator & CEO of DeployHub, CDF board member and DevOps Institute Ambassador shares her thoughts on why we need to move to smarter data-driven delivery pipelines. Tracy (@TracyRagan) gives us insights into why not every microservice is created equal and what approaches we can take to better control updates that contain multiple microservice updates.Also make sure to check out their latest project Ortelius and take Tracy up on a virtual coffee chat as discussed in our podcast!https://www.linkedin.com/in/tracy-ragan-oms/https://twitter.com/TracyRaganhttps://github.com/orteliushttps://go.oncehub.com/15-30MinuteVirtualCoffeeWithTracy

PurePerformance
How to successfully run k8s software in SaaS and on-premise with Marc Campbell

PurePerformance

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 28, 2020 46:16


K8s enables organizations to more easily deploy their containerized solutions as it takes away a lot of the operational tasks which are built-into k8s. This in theory means that you can run your software anywhere and provide it as SaaS offering or deploy it behind corporate firewalls for those customers that demand an on-premise installation.In this episode we have Marc Campbell, Founder and CTO of Replicated, where they help the k8s community to deliver and manage apps on k8s anywhere. For anyone looking into running their apps on k8s you will learn the challenges of Day 1 (delivery, install) and Day 2 (operation, monitoring, troubleshooting) operations. Marc shares common performance and scalability challenges and how to prepare for them during development.In this episode we have Marc Campbell, Founder and CTO of Replicated, where they help the k8s community to deliver and manage apps on k8s anywhere. For anyone looking into running their apps on k8s you will learn the challenges of Day 1 (delivery, install) and Day 2 (operation, monitoring, troubleshooting) operations. Marc shares common performance and scalability challenges and how to prepare for them during development.https://www.linkedin.com/in/campbe79/https://www.replicated.com/https://www.heavybit.com/library/podcasts/the-kubelist-podcast/ep-7-keptn-with-andreas-grabner-of-dynatrace/https://troubleshoot.sh/https://kots.io/

PurePerformance
Scaling Dev Teams from Startup to Enterprise while keeping Agility with Stefan Frandl

PurePerformance

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 14, 2020 45:26


Stefan Frandl, Development Director, has a single digit employee number at Dynatrace and therefore seen a lot of agile transformation over the past 15 years – growing from a startup in Linz, Austria to now 800+ engineers across globally distributed labs. A visit to several “unicorns” such as Google, Facebook and Slack triggered the latest agile transformation.In this episode Stefan walks us through the implementation of the changes we discussed with Andrea Holl in her episode on “Scaling Agile at Dynatrace”. He shares the challenges around growing responsibilities of team leads, work left half-finished, overhead on hand-over and cross team collaboration. He then introduces us to the current structure and processes at Dynatrace such as Team Captains, Product Owners and Agile Advocates as well as Dev Directors and Lead Product Engineers. While Dynatrace has seen many benefits already, the journey is still ongoing as Dynatrace is continuously rethinking and improving the way we work and provide value to our customers!https://www.linkedin.com/in/stefan-frandl-aa86723/https://www.spreaker.com/user/pureperformance/scaling-agile-at-dynatrace-with-andrea-h

PurePerformance
Scaling Agile at Dynatrace with Andrea Holl

PurePerformance

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 30, 2020 47:17


SAFE, LESS or the Spotify Model? Which scaled agile method to apply for your transformation? Or are you unique enough like 44% of organizations based on a European research that are defining their own scaled agile approach to transform successfully?In this episode we sit down with Andrea Holl, Agile Coach at Dynatrace, and let her walk us through the different scaled agile frameworks. She discusses the pros and cons and why many organizations – including Dynatrace – are coming up with their own approaches. For Dynatrace it was about taking the best from the proven frameworks but adapting them to allow us continue or core cultural values such as full autonomy to teams and flexibility of tools and processes.If you are on the brink of a transformation make sure to listen to Andrea and how she and her teams have approached that transformational project!https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrea-elisabeth-holl-b2255a112/https://www.scaledagileframework.com/https://less.works/https://blog.crisp.se/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/SpotifyScaling.pdf

PurePerformance
Why you should look into Chaos Engineering with Ana Medina

PurePerformance

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 16, 2020 56:42


Daylight savings can bring chaos to systems such as rogue processes consuming CPU or memory and therefore impact your critical systems. The question is: how do you systems react to this chaos? How can you test for this? And how can you make your systems more resilient against this chaos?In this episode we talk with Ana Margarita Medina, Chaos Engineer at Gremlin. In her previous job, Ana (@Ana_M_Medina) was a Site Reliability Engineer at Uber where she helped coping with the “chaos” on New Years Eve or Halloween. Ana gives us great insights into the discipline of Chaos Engineering, that its really about running controlled experiment and that everyone can get started that has an interest in contributing to more resilient systems.Here the additional links we promised during the recording: Drift into failure, Chaos Engineering Community, Chaos Engineering and System Resilience in Practice.https://www.linkedin.com/in/anammedina/https://twitter.com/Ana_M_Medinahttps://eng.uber.com/nye/https://www.amazon.com/Drift-into-Failure-Sidney-Dekker/dp/1409422216https://www.gremlin.com/community/https://www.amazon.com/Chaos-Engineering-System-Resiliency-Practice/dp/1492043869

PurePerformance
Why you should look into Chaos Engineering with Ana Medina

PurePerformance

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 16, 2020 56:42


Daylight savings can bring chaos to systems such as rogue processes consuming CPU or memory and therefore impact your critical systems. The question is: how do you systems react to this chaos? How can you test for this? And how can you make your systems more resilient against this chaos?In this episode we talk with Ana Margarita Medina, Chaos Engineer at Gremlin. In her previous job, Ana (@Ana_M_Medina) was a Site Reliability Engineer at Uber where she helped coping with the “chaos” on New Years Eve or Halloween. Ana gives us great insights into the discipline of Chaos Engineering, that its really about running controlled experiment and that everyone can get started that has an interest in contributing to more resilient systems.Here the additional links we promised during the recording: Drift into failure, Chaos Engineering Community, Chaos Engineering and System Resilience in Practice.https://www.linkedin.com/in/anammedina/https://twitter.com/Ana_M_Medinahttps://eng.uber.com/nye/https://www.amazon.com/Drift-into-Failure-Sidney-Dekker/dp/1409422216https://www.gremlin.com/community/https://www.amazon.com/Chaos-Engineering-System-Resiliency-Practice/dp/1492043869

Podcast proConf
#72 #PerfMatters Conference 2020

Podcast proConf

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 22, 2020 94:11


Доклады: Phil Hawksworth :: Betting on Boring: Getting Ahead with Oldskool Tech ( https://youtu.be/9NFy54-CGzg ) Vasanth Krishnamoorthy :: Turbocharging Walmart.com ( https://youtu.be/vB8JUx9Dp08 ) Melanie Sumner :: Shift Left ( https://youtu.be/w8h3JWvc1fE ) Erica Stanley :: Creating Performant Virtual Reality Experiences ( https://youtu.be/q1Yp87tKpDA ) Tim Kadlec :: When JavaScript Bytes ( https://youtu.be/GvUGN0AIfDE ) Divya Tagtachian :: The Art of Predictive Prefetch ( https://youtu.be/UwjzFGCAuLw ) Emily Nakashima :: Observability for Web Perf ( https://youtu.be/DMM4kTA5nAc ) Andrew Scheuermann :: One Number, Multiple Metrics ( https://youtu.be/e215_uiU3LQ ) Мы в соцсетях: 1. Telegram: https://t.me/proConf 2. Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/proconf 3. SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/proconf 4. Itunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/by/podcast/podcast-proconf/id1455023466 5. Twitter: https://twitter.com/ProconfShow

PurePerformance
Why Performance Engineering in 2020 is still failing with James Pulley

PurePerformance

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 7, 2020 68:16


Why do some organizations still see performance testing as a waste of time? Why are we not demanding the same level of performance criteria for SaaS-based solutions as we do for in-house hosted services? Why are many organizations just validating performance to be “within specification” vs “holistically optimized”?In this episode we have invited James Pulley (@perfpulley), Performance Veteran and PerfBytes News of the Damned host, to discuss who organizations can level up from performance testing to true performance engineering. He also shares his approaches to analyzing performance issues and gives everyone advice on what to do to start a performance practice in your organization.https://www.linkedin.com/in/jameslpulley3/https://www.perfbytes.com/p/news-of-damned.html

PurePerformance
Why Performance Engineering in 2020 is still failing with James Pulley

PurePerformance

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 7, 2020 68:16


Why do some organizations still see performance testing as a waste of time? Why are we not demanding the same level of performance criteria for SaaS-based solutions as we do for in-house hosted services? Why are many organizations just validating performance to be “within specification” vs “holistically optimized”?In this episode we have invited James Pulley (@perfpulley), Performance Veteran and PerfBytes News of the Damned host, to discuss who organizations can level up from performance testing to true performance engineering. He also shares his approaches to analyzing performance issues and gives everyone advice on what to do to start a performance practice in your organization.https://www.linkedin.com/in/jameslpulley3/https://www.perfbytes.com/p/news-of-damned.html

PurePerformance
Encore - Understanding the Power of Feature Flags with Heidi Waterhouse

PurePerformance

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 24, 2020 45:22


Imagine a future where we deploy every code change directly into production because feature flags eliminated the need for staging. Feature flags allow us to deploy any code change, but only launch the feature to a specific set of users that we want to expose to new capabilities. Monitoring the usage and the impact enables continuous experimentation: optimizing what is not perfect yet and throw away features (technical debt) that nobody really cares about. So – what are feature flags?We got to chat with Heidi Waterhouse (@wiredferret), Developer Advocate at LaunchDarkly (https://launchdarkly.com/), who gives as a great introduction on Feature Flags, how organizations actually define a feature and why it is paramount to differentiate between Deploy and Launch. We learn how to test feature flags, what options we have to enable features for a certain group of users and how important it is to always include monitoring. IF you want to learn more about feature flags check out http://featureflags.io/. If you want to learn more about Heidi’s passion check out https://heidiwaterhouse.com/.

PurePerformance
Encore - Understanding the Power of Feature Flags with Heidi Waterhouse

PurePerformance

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 24, 2020 45:22


Imagine a future where we deploy every code change directly into production because feature flags eliminated the need for staging. Feature flags allow us to deploy any code change, but only launch the feature to a specific set of users that we want to expose to new capabilities. Monitoring the usage and the impact enables continuous experimentation: optimizing what is not perfect yet and throw away features (technical debt) that nobody really cares about. So – what are feature flags?We got to chat with Heidi Waterhouse (@wiredferret), Developer Advocate at LaunchDarkly (https://launchdarkly.com/), who gives as a great introduction on Feature Flags, how organizations actually define a feature and why it is paramount to differentiate between Deploy and Launch. We learn how to test feature flags, what options we have to enable features for a certain group of users and how important it is to always include monitoring. IF you want to learn more about feature flags check out http://featureflags.io/. If you want to learn more about Heidi’s passion check out https://heidiwaterhouse.com/.

Ask PerfBytes
How Can I Make Sure That My Tests Are Relevant?

Ask PerfBytes

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 10, 2020 64:12


Henrek Rexed, from our show's sponsor Neotys, joins us to answer the question of how to make sure our tests are relevant. He also gives us an update on the latest release of Neoload. https://www.neotys.com/neoload/whats-new

PurePerformance
From Postmortems to true SRE Culture with Steve McGhee

PurePerformance

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 6, 2020 67:14


Steve McGhee (@stevemcghee) is an expert in post mortems and SRE. He has learned the craft at Google, applied it at MindBody and is now sharing his experiences while back at Google to the larger SRE community. Listen to this episode and learn more about how post mortem analysis can be the starting point of your SRE transformation. How it can help reliability engineering to build and engineer systems that fail gracefully instead of causing full crashes or outages.Steve also went into monitor what matters and only defining alerts on leading indicators with an expiration date – a fascinating concept to avoid a flood of custom alerting in production!If you want to learn more from Steve or SRE check out these additional resources he mentioned in the podcast: The SRE I aspire to be (SRECon19) and his 2 blog part series on blameless.com.https://twitter.com/stevemcgheehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7kD_JfRUY0https://www.blameless.com/blog/improve-postmortem-with-sre-steve-mcghee

PurePerformance
From Postmortems to true SRE Culture with Steve McGhee

PurePerformance

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 6, 2020 67:14


Steve McGhee (@stevemcghee) is an expert in post mortems and SRE. He has learned the craft at Google, applied it at MindBody and is now sharing his experiences while back at Google to the larger SRE community. Listen to this episode and learn more about how post mortem analysis can be the starting point of your SRE transformation. How it can help reliability engineering to build and engineer systems that fail gracefully instead of causing full crashes or outages.Steve also went into monitor what matters and only defining alerts on leading indicators with an expiration date – a fascinating concept to avoid a flood of custom alerting in production!If you want to learn more from Steve or SRE check out these additional resources he mentioned in the podcast: The SRE I aspire to be (SRECon19) and his 2 blog part series on blameless.com.https://twitter.com/stevemcgheehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7kD_JfRUY0https://www.blameless.com/blog/improve-postmortem-with-sre-steve-mcghee

Ask PerfBytes
When should I incorporate browser based tests in my load test?

Ask PerfBytes

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 2, 2020 62:55


In this episode, Leandro "Señor Performo" Melendez, joins me to discuss when and how to use browser driven tests in your load test.

PurePerformance
SLO Adoption and Usage in SRE with Sebastian Weigand

PurePerformance

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 22, 2020 62:03


Keep hearing the terms SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, Error Budgets and finally want to understand what they are, who should be responsible for and how they fit into SRE (Site Reliability Engineering)?Then listen to our conversation with Sebastian Weigand who has been helping organizations modernizing not only their application stacks but also helping them embrace DevOps & SRE. Learn about who is responsible to define SLIs, what the difference between SLOs and SLAs are and what the difference between DevOps & SRE is in his opinion!Sebastian, who calls himself “That Devops Guy” (@ThatDevopsGuy), also suggests to check out the latest free report on SLO Adoption and Usage of SRE as well as SRE Books from Google to get started with that practice.https://www.linkedin.com/in/thatdevopsguy/https://twitter.com/ThatDevopsGuyhttps://landing.google.com/sre/resources/practicesandprocesses/slo-adoption-and-usage-in-sre/https://landing.google.com/sre/books/

PurePerformance
SLO Adoption and Usage in SRE with Sebastian Weigand

PurePerformance

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 22, 2020 62:03


Keep hearing the terms SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, Error Budgets and finally want to understand what they are, who should be responsible for and how they fit into SRE (Site Reliability Engineering)?Then listen to our conversation with Sebastian Weigand who has been helping organizations modernizing not only their application stacks but also helping them embrace DevOps & SRE. Learn about who is responsible to define SLIs, what the difference between SLOs and SLAs are and what the difference between DevOps & SRE is in his opinion!Sebastian, who calls himself “That Devops Guy” (@ThatDevopsGuy), also suggests to check out the latest free report on SLO Adoption and Usage of SRE as well as SRE Books from Google to get started with that practice.https://www.linkedin.com/in/thatdevopsguy/https://twitter.com/ThatDevopsGuyhttps://landing.google.com/sre/resources/practicesandprocesses/slo-adoption-and-usage-in-sre/https://landing.google.com/sre/books/

PurePerformance
Building High Performing Apps on React with Cassidy Williams

PurePerformance

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 8, 2020 51:17


Cassidy (@cassidoo) has been building but also educating developers on how to build apps on React, JavaScript, JAMStack and many other technologies over the past years. We got her on our podcast where she gave us insights into React Hooks, how WPO (Web Performance Optimization) plays out in the React world, why it is important to think about state from the start and that its important to always have your end user in mind before even writing your first line of JavaScript.In the podcast she references additional resources which here are the links for: The performance benefits of Variable Fonts, Mandy Michael (@Mandy_Kerr), Isabela Moreira (@isabelacmor) and A/B Testing with React (YouTube).https://twitter.com/cassidoohttps://reactjs.org/https://jamstack.org/https://uxdesign.cc/the-performance-benefits-of-variable-fonts-79af8c4ff56chttps://twitter.com/Mandy_Kerrhttps://twitter.com/isabelacmorhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpfR0rRfcNk

PurePerformance
Building High Performing Apps on React with Cassidy Williams

PurePerformance

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 8, 2020 51:17


Cassidy (@cassidoo) has been building but also educating developers on how to build apps on React, JavaScript, JAMStack and many other technologies over the past years. We got her on our podcast where she gave us insights into React Hooks, how WPO (Web Performance Optimization) plays out in the React world, why it is important to think about state from the start and that its important to always have your end user in mind before even writing your first line of JavaScript.In the podcast she references additional resources which here are the links for: The performance benefits of Variable Fonts, Mandy Michael (@Mandy_Kerr), Isabela Moreira (@isabelacmor) and A/B Testing with React (YouTube).https://twitter.com/cassidoohttps://reactjs.org/https://jamstack.org/https://uxdesign.cc/the-performance-benefits-of-variable-fonts-79af8c4ff56chttps://twitter.com/Mandy_Kerrhttps://twitter.com/isabelacmorhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpfR0rRfcNk

PurePerformance
Extreme Loadtesting with 2Mio Virtual Users: Lessons learned with Joerek van Gaalen

PurePerformance

Play Episode Listen Later May 25, 2020 58:14


How do you prepare for a 2Mio concurrent user load that lasts for 7 seconds? What does the load infrastructure look like? How do you optimize your scripts? How do you deal with DNS or CDNs?In this episode we hear from Joerek van Gaalen who has done these types of tests. He shares his experiences and approaches to running these “special event extreme load tests”. If you want to learn more make sure to check out his presentation and read his blog post from Neotys PAC 2020.https://www.linkedin.com/in/joerekvangaalen/https://www.neotys.com/performance-advisory-council/joerek_van_gaalen

PurePerformance
Extreme load testing with 2Mio Virtual Users: Lessons learned with Joerek van Gaalen

PurePerformance

Play Episode Listen Later May 25, 2020 58:14


How do you prepare for a 2Mio concurrent user load that lasts for 7 seconds? What does the load infrastructure look like? How do you optimize your scripts? How do you deal with DNS or CDNs?In this episode we hear from Joerek van Gaalen who has done these types of tests. He shares his experiences and approaches to running these “special event extreme load tests”. If you want to learn more make sure to check out his presentation and read his blog post from Neotys PAC 2020.https://www.linkedin.com/in/joerekvangaalen/https://www.neotys.com/performance-advisory-council/joerek_van_gaalen

Ask PerfBytes
How can varnish and squid cache be helpful?

Ask PerfBytes

Play Episode Listen Later May 18, 2020 46:00


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.

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SEO for Photographers by Fuel Your Photos
Episode 9 - Improving Your Website Performance

SEO for Photographers by Fuel Your Photos

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 21, 2020 55:46


We talk about improving performance for your photography website. What metrics to look at, which to disregard, and what tools to use.  Testing Tools Mentioned: GT Metrix https://gtmetrix.com/ Pingdom http://tools.pingdom.com/ Pagespeed Insights https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/ Webpagetest https://www.webpagetest.org/ Links Mentioned: WP Speed Fix (pagespeed improvement services)https://www.fuelyourphotos.com/wpspeedfix Wordpress Hosting Recommendationshttps://www.fuelyourphotos.com/hosting Perf Matters (Wordpress plugin) https://www.fuelyourphotos.com/perfmatters Short Pixel (Image Compression Tool +plugin) https://www.fuelyourphotos.com/sp WP Rocket (Wordpress caching plugin) https://www.fuelyourphotos.com/wprocket

Ask PerfBytes
How can caching improve performance and how do I test it?

Ask PerfBytes

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 20, 2020 55:58


James Pulley, host of News of the Damned, joins me to answer the question, "How can cache be used to improve performance and what do I need to know in order to test it properly?"

Ask PerfBytes
In the context of SAFe, where does the responsibility of performance, reliability, scalability lie?

Ask PerfBytes

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 23, 2020 56:30


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?

WordPress para Novatos: Sácale el jugo a WordPress
135. Optimizar la carga de WordPress con Perfmatters

WordPress para Novatos: Sácale el jugo a WordPress

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 10, 2020 32:12


** Recuerda que puedes acceder a las notas del programa desde https://wpnovatos.com/podcast/episodio135 ** Este este episodio hablamos sobre WPO para WordPress utilizando un plugin que te ofrece distintas posibilidades fáciles de utilizar. Se trata de activar o desactivar scripts de JS y CSS en función de si las necesitas o no, e incluso de decidir en qué páginas y sitios quieres que no carguen determinados scripts. Beneficiate de un 15% de descuento en la compra de la licencia de este plugin desde: https://wpnovatos.com/cupones/perfmatters/ También puedes conseguir un 20% de descuento, por tiempo limitado en la compra de Genesis Framework, únicamente desde este enlace: https://wpnovatos.com/cupones/genesis/ Este episodio está patrocinado por Host-Fusion, el proveedor de hosting en el que confío el alojamiento de WPnovatos. Benefíciate de un 25% de descuento para siempre accediendo a https://wpnovatos.com/hostfusion.

PurePerformance
A year in - Establishing an SRE Role at CFA with Abigail Wilson

PurePerformance

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 6, 2020 58:48


Do you have a clear definition of what Reliability means for your organization? Abigail Wilson, Reliability Architect at CFA Institute, sees this as a key requirement before you start transforming your organization to embrace site reliability, DevOps or Cloud Native.In the podcast we hear how Abigail went on her journey where she has proven that you don’t need a background in IT in order to become an advocate and change agent for reliability engineering. In her role has bridged the gap between business and IT, she has helped bring stable environments to developers and testers and with those and many other steps has increased overall productivity, quality and stability of their business critical applications.https://www.linkedin.com/in/abigailswilson/https://theabigailwilson.com/

PurePerformance
A year in - Establishing an SRE Role at CFA with Abigail Wilson

PurePerformance

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 6, 2020 58:48


Do you have a clear definition of what Reliability means for your organization? Abigail Wilson, Reliability Architect at CFA Institute, sees this as a key requirement before you start transforming your organization to embrace site reliability, DevOps or Cloud Native.In the podcast we hear how Abigail went on her journey where she has proven that you don’t need a background in IT in order to become an advocate and change agent for reliability engineering. In her role has bridged the gap between business and IT, she has helped bring stable environments to developers and testers and with those and many other steps has increased overall productivity, quality and stability of their business critical applications.https://www.linkedin.com/in/abigailswilson/https://theabigailwilson.com/

PurePerformance
100th Episode! Continuous Performance & Continuous Podcasting with Mark Tomlinson

PurePerformance

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 25, 2019 67:00


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/

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PurePerformance
100th Episode! Continuous Performance & Continuous Podcasting with Mark Tomlinson

PurePerformance

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 25, 2019 67:00


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/

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PurePerformance
ChatOps: Automate yourself into your next job with Nestor and Zohaib from Citrix

PurePerformance

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 28, 2019 55:51


ChatOps is not new! But many organizations have not understood nor leverage its full potential. The use cases spread from “What’s on todays cafeteria menu?” to “Deploy my latest Git commit as canary and scale based my SLOs!”.Listen to this podcast and learn from Nestor Zapata and Zohaib Hassan – both working at Citrix – on how they have started their ChatOps journey, how the built trust in the technology and how it helped them transform their organization towards more autonomy thanks to the self-service model enabled through the chat bots they developed. We discuss many of their self-service use cases such as Performance as a Self-Service or even Self-Healing which they implemented through Chat Bots integrated with Slack, Dynatrace, ServiceNow, Jira and other tools.If you want to see their chat ops in action watch our Performance Clinic on Automate Deployment and Site Reliability with Bots, ChatOps and Dynatracehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xE_LMQ9u7l4

PurePerformance
ChatOps: Automate yourself into your next job with Nestor and Zohaib from Citrix

PurePerformance

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 28, 2019 55:51


ChatOps is not new! But many organizations have not understood nor leverage its full potential. The use cases spread from “What’s on todays cafeteria menu?” to “Deploy my latest Git commit as canary and scale based my SLOs!”.Listen to this podcast and learn from Nestor Zapata and Zohaib Hassan – both working at Citrix – on how they have started their ChatOps journey, how the built trust in the technology and how it helped them transform their organization towards more autonomy thanks to the self-service model enabled through the chat bots they developed. We discuss many of their self-service use cases such as Performance as a Self-Service or even Self-Healing which they implemented through Chat Bots integrated with Slack, Dynatrace, ServiceNow, Jira and other tools.If you want to see their chat ops in action watch our Performance Clinic on Automate Deployment and Site Reliability with Bots, ChatOps and Dynatracehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xE_LMQ9u7l4