Performance Time

By Stephen Townshend

A show about performance testing and engineering (and human beings).

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The podcast currently has 28 episodes available.

Performance Time episodes:

January 09, 2023 Performance Time Episode 18: Broken
In this episode I share an experience of work related anxiety I recently went through.

Shout out to Joey Hendricks for reviewing this content before it went live.
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18min
January 09, 2023 Performance Time Episode 17: Engineer to Advocate
What are the challenges when performance engineers are asked to move away from hands on technical work, into advocating and enabling others?

Shout out to Sajeesh Nair and Ben Rowan who's LinkedIn comments I refer to.
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11min
January 09, 2023 Performance Time Episode 16: Performance and Customer Experience
In this episode we talk about measuring whether performance itself has a meaningful impact on customer experience, and how difficult it can be to answer that question.
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10min
January 09, 2023 Performance Time Episode 15: Say It Ain't Slow
Third party trackers
Are crowding my website
Analytics requests
Are bringing me down
Guess I’ll just close my tab
Oh yeah
Alright
Feels bad
Inside
Four hundred requests
For just one web page
My mobile netwo-oo-er-oo-erk
Is struggling to cope
I’ll guess I’ll call instead
Say it ain’t slow
Your site is unbearable
Say it ain’t slow
My business is going elsewhere
I can’t connect to
Anything you do
All of your websites
Are timing out
When I try
To pay for the product that you had up on
Your website just the other day
It’s not cool
Say it ain’t slow
Your site is unbearable
Say it ain’t slow
My business is going elsewhere
Dear website
I try you, in spite of years of slowness
You’ve cleaned up, got faster, (even) using a CDN now
This gigan-tic image, awakens ancient feelings
Frustration, desperation, all of your customers are goooooonneee…
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Say it ain’t slow
Your site is unbearable
Say it ain’t slow
My business is going elsewhere
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6min
January 09, 2023 Performance Time Episode 14: The Hourglass Model
Doing more early (shifting left) and doing more in production (shifting right) to reduce how much end to end performance testing we need to do.
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12min
January 09, 2023 Performance Time Episode 13: An Interview with Nicole van der Hoeven
In this episode I chat with globally recognized performance specialist Nicole van der Hoeven about chaos engineering, diversity in technology, note taking, chasing shiny things, having a job interview with Stijn Schepers, and much more.

Nicole can be found on Twitter @n_vanderhoeven or e-mail [email protected]

The two books mentioned are Modern Technical Writing by Andrew Etter and The Art of Statistics by David Spiegelhalter.
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44min
January 09, 2023 Performance Time Episode 12: To Stub or Not To Stub?
In this episode we look at performance testing in stubbed environments versus fully integrated end to end environments. We drill into some of the benefits and limitations of stubbed component performance testing, and how to make sense of it all in our organisations.
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22min
January 09, 2023 Performance Time Episode 11: Performance Test Data
In this episode we explore the unique challenges of managing test data during load testing, and some solutions to make our lives easier.
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23min
January 09, 2023 Performance Time Episode 10: An Interview with Stijn Schepers
Join Stijn and I as we discuss culture change, coincidences, war rooms, unicorns, penguins, McDonald's testing, and many other things.
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47min
January 09, 2023 Performance Time Episode 9: An Interview with Alan Gordon
Join me as a I chat with performance specialist Alan Gordon about stress and anxiety as a performance engineer.
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37min

FAQs about Performance Time:

How many episodes does Performance Time have?

The podcast currently has 28 episodes available.