Slight Reliability
116 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago -Learning SRE, one day at a time.
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Performance Time Episode 16: Performance and Customer Experience
June 21, 2021 08:00 - 9 minutes - 6.9 MBIn 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.
Performance Time Episode 15: Say It Ain't Slow
June 14, 2021 01:00 - 5 minutes - 3.77 MBThird 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 w...
Performance Time Episode 14: The Hourglass Model
June 07, 2021 04:00 - 11 minutes - 7.76 MBDoing more early (shifting left) and doing more in production (shifting right) to reduce how much end to end performance testing we need to do.
Performance Time Episode 13: An Interview with Nicole van der Hoeven
May 31, 2021 08:00 - 43 minutes - 29.6 MBIn 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.
Performance Time Episode 12: To Stub or Not To Stub?
May 17, 2021 08:00 - 21 minutes - 14.6 MBIn 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.
Performance Time Episode 11: Performance Test Data
May 10, 2021 09:00 - 22 minutes - 15.6 MBIn this episode we explore the unique challenges of managing test data during load testing, and some solutions to make our lives easier.
Performance Time Episode 10: An Interview with Stijn Schepers
April 25, 2021 19:00 - 46 minutes - 32.3 MBJoin Stijn and I as we discuss culture change, coincidences, war rooms, unicorns, penguins, McDonald's testing, and many other things.
Performance Time Episode 9: An Interview with Alan Gordon
April 18, 2021 20:00 - 36 minutes - 25.2 MBJoin me as a I chat with performance specialist Alan Gordon about stress and anxiety as a performance engineer.
Performance Time Episode 8:Verbal Communication
April 06, 2021 09:00 - 16 minutes - 11.2 MBHow do we present ideas about performance engineering either in meetings or formal presentations? And I tell a story about having an anxiety attack in a meeting.
Performance Time Episode 7: Written Communication
April 01, 2021 07:00 - 15 minutes - 10.5 MBHow to do the great technical work you do justice by making sure the right people hear about it in a way they understand.
Performance Time Episode 6: An Interview with Ben Rowan
March 18, 2021 18:00 - 37 minutes - 25.8 MBJoin me as a I chat with performance specialist Ben Rowan about his collaborative and scientific style of performance engineering, the challenges of cloud performance, and the time he wiped five years of work.
Performance Time Episode 5: What Kind of Performance Engineer Are You?
March 09, 2021 09:00 - 17 minutes - 11.9 MBA look at the different styles or kinds of performance engineer. Which kinds are you? What areas are you interested in growing?
Performance Time Episode 4: Becoming a Better Performance Engineer
March 01, 2021 08:00 - 13 minutes - 9.62 MBHow can we grow into better performance engineers? How do we avoid getting stuck in our ways?
Performance Time Episode 3: Stress & Anxiety in Performance Testing Part 2
February 23, 2021 08:00 - 14 minutes - 10.2 MBA look at the some of the ways we can deal with stress and anxiety as a performance engineer.
Performance Time Episode 2: Stress & Anxiety in Performance Testing Part 1
February 16, 2021 08:00 - 14 minutes - 9.87 MBA look at the contributing factors of why performance testing and engineering can be so stressful.
Performance Time Episode 1: Containers & CPU Usage
February 16, 2021 07:00 - 9 minutes - 6.79 MBA real world example of monitoring the performance of a containerized platform. Includes some example behaviours to watch out for.