TestGuild Devops Toolchain Podcast

Do you know all the domains that make up performance management? In this episode, Arthur Luimes will share a framework to help you with your performance engineering efforts. Discover how to integrate performance in infrastructure, software development, configuration management, monitoring, load testing, performance testing tips, and more. Listen up!

Is your performance engineering strategy updated to handle today's software development practices? In this episode, Matthew Andrus will share ways in which you can modernize your performance testing efforts. Discover what Taurus is, mock services for performance, and other tips. Listen up!

Want to detect, diagnose, and resolve performance issues before your code event gets to your customers? In this episode, Innocent Bindura, a senior software developer at RayGun, shares his top monitoring secrets. Discover how to discover and diagnose errors, monitor real user sessions, and uncover server-side performance bottlenecks and much, much more. Listen up!

Do you need to performance test a content management system like Drupal, but don’t know where to start? In this episode Brian Tully, a Performance Specialist at Acquia, will share how to performance engineer a CMS. Discover his approach to Drupal performance tuning and testing. Listen up

Planning and creating performance tests for black swan type of events can be difficult. Epically when our application users can act irrationally. In this episode, Nicole van der Hoeven shares how FOMO affects performance outcomes. Discover what FOMO is, and performance testing approaches you can take to avoid your site going down due to unexpected load. 

Do you need a plan to performance test your microservices? In this episode, Zubair Haque, a senior SDET, will share his approach to adding performance tests to his team's software delivery pipeline. Listen in for real-world examples of using Scalatest & Gatling to test and measure the performance of REST services. Check it out!

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!

Do you need to performance test an SAP application? Or are you tasked with planning or performance testing a complex system that is more than just a simple web browser? In this episode, Helen Bally, a managing director at Itecor, will share how she approaches performance testing an SAP warehouse management system. Discover tips for some of the unique performance challenges of SAP, as well as seven key takeaways based on what she has learned from her efforts.

Are you looking for tips on how performance testing is done based on real-world examples? In this episode, Lukasz Nowanski Technical Team Lead at Poppulo shares his experience with finding performance bootnecks and more. Discover a unique approach to performance engineering, using architectural fitness functions that help build evolutionary architectures. Listen up!

A growing trend in performance engineering is developer-centric performance testing tools. One of the more popular testing tools for this is Gatling. In this episode, Stephane Landelle, creator of Gatling shares his thoughts on performance testing. Listen in to discover what Gatling is, why it was created, and how it can help you to shift-left your performance testing efforts.