TestGuild Devops Toolchain Podcast

What is Platform Engineering? In this episode, Evan Niedojadlo, an engineer at Peddle, shares his real-world experience with Platform Engineering. Discover if Platform Engineering is yet another extension of DevOps practices, the difference from SRE, Platform Metrics, the future of platform engineering, and more.

Want an easy way to query, visualize, and understand metrics and logs in your infrastructure? In this episode, Micha Hernandez van Leuffen is the founder of Fiberplane shares a new to enhance your SRE collaboration. Discover all about collaborative notebooks for resolving incidents, coordinating work related to downtime, how to build up a structured knowledge base, and more.

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Can anyone do performance testing? In this episode, Eric Proegler, a Staff Test Instructure Engineer for Credit Karma, shares performance test strategies and how to test and measure performance. Discover performance testing, load testing, and performance testing techniques to help explore, describe, quantify, and measure performance. Listen also to hear what onsite events Eric will be at to learn from him in person. 

Nowadays, it is often the case that performance testing needs to be executed repeatably, fast, and with minimum manual work for a fast-paced project to go from development to production. In this episode, Viktoriia Kuznetcova, a Performance Engineer & Test Automation Specialist, shares their experience with Building Performance Testing Pipelines for CI/CD. Discover the challenges of creating realistic test environments, maintaining test data, and analyzing performance test results automatically or semi-automatically. Listen up to learn as Viktoriia shares her experience building frameworks/pipelines to do just that in AWS-enabled environments, using open-source tools and a bit of scripting. By the end of this podcast, you should be able to understand how to approach building an automated Performance testing pipeline for your project, how to pick the right tools, and how to get the best value out of it.

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Want to know how to stress test your APIs with real-world scenarios? In this episode, Matt LeRay, Co-founder and CTO of Speedscale, will share how to automate K8s load testing with someone who hates writing manual tests. Discover why Kubernetes matters for performance testing, what are some K8S load testing tools, how to choose a tool, and much more. Listen up!

How cool would it be to optimize live systems running in production environments? In this episode, Stefano Doni, CTO at Akamas, will share some ways to meet the challenge of optimizing Kubernetes in production. Discover how AI technology can help you with automated context detections, safe recommendations against customer-defined SLOs, and other capabilities to achieve cost efficiency and application performance goals without compromising SLOs.

Debugging JMeter scripts can be tricky. Where do you start? In this episode, Naeem Malik, an experienced test engineer and Udemy instructor, shares his approach to debugging JMeter tests. Discover different ways that you can debug JMeter scripts, including the debug sampler, debug post-processor, and JSR223 sampler.

Do you think of databases when it comes to the performance of your application? In this episode, Peter Corless, Director of Technical Advocacy at ScyllaDB, shares five top factors for a fast, performant database. Discover how to choose the best DB for your application, latency, hardware utilization, RASP, deployment best practices, and more.

Are you using Playwright for functional testing and want to know how you can leverage them for performance testing? In this episode, Katarzyna (“Kat”) Kmiotek, a Quality Engineer at Zoopla, shares her experience integrating Playwright test with Artillery. Discover what Artillery is, how to integrate it with Playwright, and things to watch out for when creating performance tests. 

How many times have you encountered performance bottlenecks? In this episode, Ruben Torres Bonet, a Unity performance expert, shares his approach to solving gaming performance issues. Discover his 3-step workflow to find your bottlenecks and how to craft an action plan within minutes.