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!

We got Rick Boyd ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/richardjboyd/ ) – Application Performance Engineer at IBM Watson – and elaborated what Continuous Performance Testing is all about. We all concluded its about Faster Feedback in the development cycle back to the developers – integrated into your delivery pipeline. As compared to delivering performance feedback only at the end of a release cycle. We discussed different approaches on how to “shift left performance” with the benefit of continuous performance feedback!

Brett Hofer (@brett_solarch) has been engaged in numerous DevOps Transformation projects mainly for very large enterprises. We got to talk with him on this episode to learn more about how he assesses the status quo when he walks into an organization, what the top blocking items for a successful transformation are and what the best approaches are to implement the recommended changes. Spoiler alert: we talked a lot about IT Ops Automation, building cross functional teams and understanding and defining responsibilities and roles. If you want to learn more about what Brett is doing check out his blogs about DevOps on https://www.dynatrace.com/blog/author/brett-hofer/.

Thomas McGonagle just had his 10 years DevOps anniversary at it was 10 years ago when he got first exposed to Infrastructure as Code through Puppet. He is currently working with F5, helping Big IP Network Teams around the world automate the Network as part of their DevOps transformation.
We met Tom at a recent DevOps meetup in Boston which sparked this conversation on what “Metrics Driven Continuous Delivery” could mean for Network Operations Engineers. What are the metrics to look at? How to engage with the application teams to provision better and automated network resources? How to bake this into the Continues Delivery Cycle?
Besides NetOps Thomas is also passionate about CI/CD. He runs the largest Jenkins User Group in the World out of Boston, MA. If you happen to be around check out their next meetups and DoJo’s: https://www.meetup.com/Boston-Jenkins-Area-Meetup/

Mike Horwitz (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-horwitz-a40a139 ) has been working with Mainframe since the mid 80s. In this podcast he explains basic terminology and the challenges that come with the interaction to the distributed and cloud native world. Monitoring end-to-end is a critical capability especially when it comes to cost savings and including the mainframe components in a CI/CD/DevOps environment.
If you want to learn more about common mainframe performance and monitoring challenges check out our YouTube Performance Clinic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eodOw3gnMA&list=PLqt2rd0eew1bmDn54E2_M2uvbhm_WxY_6&index=55

INFO COMMENTS
We take time out chat with Jason Suss and Dynatrace RUM on RUM, we search for Richard Bentley at the nightclub, Vikram survived the performance puzzlers, Rick Boyd from IBM Watson and Stefan Baumgartner tells us all about his work at Dynatrace and podcasting at http://workingdraft.de

Josh McKenty of Pivotal

Brian Wilson takes time from his feverish disco dancing to have several interviews with attendees at the Tuesday evening party at Dynatrace 2017 in Las Vegas.

Good morning Las Vegas! We chat today about how to apply logic to Dynatrace Davis, we hear an interesting performance story from Lianggui and an industry update from Vice President of Consulting at CGI, Walter Kuketz.

Wrapping up the day with interviews from Henrik Rexed from Neotys and our new friends Rajesh Jain and Maggie Ambrose from Pivotal Labs.