TestGuild Devops Toolchain Podcast

Don't let your performance testing efforts fall behind. It’s time to prepare for the top trends in 2020 and beyond. In this episode, I’ll share my insights about upcoming performance trends in testing gleaned from my popular Test Guild podcast interviews as well as my yearly PerfGuild online conference. Discover the skills, best practices, and frameworks you need to know to stay employable in a changing, post-COVID-19 performance engineering world. Listen up!

As we enter the fifth month of the year I'm sure no one predicted the trouble times we would find ourselves in 2020. In this episode, we go over a few companies that were caught off guard by how COVID-19 impacted traffic to their websites. Discover how upcoming sessions at the 2020 online PerfGuild conference can help. Listen up

Do some of your application workflow rely on emails? Are you replicating email functionality in your performance tests? I would guess not. In this episode, Paul McLean, founder of TestDataServices shares an innovative approach he called Email Storm.  If you need to do Performance Engineering on a system that involves a significant email-based workload, you don't want to miss this session. Listen up.

Want to know how to avoid SRE alert fatigue with the assistance of AI? In this episode, Guy Fighel GM for AIOps and GVP of product engineering at New Relic and Michael Olson, director of product marketing talk all about how AIOPS can help your SRE & DevOps efforts. Learn how AI/ML can help you to reduce noise to determine and address the root cause of incidents quickly. Listen now.

DevOps is great, but it needs a huge cultural shift, which many organizations find too hard. That's where Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) comes in. In this episode, Elton Stoneman, author of the Pluralsight course Site Reliability Engineering (SRE): The Big Picture, shares why SRE might be than DevOps for most organizations. Discover how SRE brings a software engineering approach to operations, making it easy to implement and to get quick results. Listen in to discover some critical aspects of SRE and how to transform your organization.

We all know that application and website performance has a significant impact on digital customer experience, which directly affects business results. But what can you do about it? In this episode Guy Arieli, CTO of Experitest, will share some insights into UX Performance integrated into the continuous testing pipeline. Discover ways to improve poor user experience and how it can make a significant impact on your company’s bottom line.

Would you like to able to measure client-side performance in production without using APM tools? In this episode, Ankur Jain shares his Prestige User Performance Method on how to do just that. Discover how to add a simple performance API to your JavaScript to capture client-side browser performance info.

Are you looking to work on your tech skills to make you more employable? Or think an SRE role might be the perfect fit for your next career move? In this episode, Evan Niedojadlo shares how he transformed his career from an SDET to an SRE. Discover tips, tools, and inspiration to help you make the move to an SRE role.

One of the most misunderstood parts of performance testing is load testing. Most folks think all performance testing is load testing, but that’s incorrect. In this episode discover what a load test really is as well as nine things to consider when planning a load test. Listen up to learn what load testing mistakes to avoid.

Today we’ll open up the Test Guild vault for an interview I did with Mark Tomlinson five years ago about performance testing as a team sport. Mark is a performance engineering and software testing enthusiast, and co-founder of the popular PerfBytes podcasts. In this episode, Mark shares how to get your team to adopt modern performance testing and engineering strategies, practices, and behaviors for better performing technology. I think this message is needed even more than ever, and that’s why I’m re-sharing it with you.