TestGuild Devops Toolchain Podcast

Welcome to The DevOps Toolchain Show – your go-to podcast for mastering the evolving world of DevOps! Previously known as The TestGuild Performance and SRE Podcast, we dive deep into the latest trends, must-know tools, and cutting-edge techniques shaping modern software delivery. Join industry experts, engineers, and thought leaders as we uncover insights on automation, performance testing, security, CI/CD, AI in DevOps, and everything in between. Whether you're a DevOps practitioner, SRE, or testing professional, this show equips you with actionable knowledge to optimize your workflow and stay ahead in an ever-changing tech world. We got you covered!

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Episodes

Performance Testing Big Data Vishnu Nair and Vijay Gavane

Join us today as we explore the world of performance testing big data with our QA advocate Vishnu Nair and Principal QA engineer Vijay Gavane. Learn about their experiences in testing big data systems, their challenges, and the strategies they used to overcome them. Discover how to test to ensure performance when dealing with tremendous amounts of data that needs to be ingested, stored, and searched simultaneously. Get ready for an exciting and informative episode!

Feb 21, 2023•30 min

Understand the Behavior of Live Applications with Eran Kinsbruner

Welcome to the world of software development, where applications have become increasingly complex and are built to run through micro-services, Kubernetes clusters, serverless, and more. But with these advancements come new challenges, particularly in troubleshooting and debugging. In this episode, Eran Kinsbruner, Global Head of Product Marketing at Lightrun, will share a better and unique way to understand the behavior of your live applications. Discover why the traditional approach of adding m...

Jan 31, 2023•35 min

Machine Learning in Performance with Gopal Brugalette

Managing the performance of complex systems requires more than simply running load tests. You need to perform a careful analysis of test results and production metrics. The sheer amount of data generated makes analysis a challenge that is often left wanting. With machine learning (ML) and the application of data science techniques, you can derive valuable and actionable information from big data. In this episode, Gopal Brugalette, a Sr. Performance Architect/Manager/Software Engineer/ shares the...

Jan 17, 2023•30 min

Resilience Testing (Failures are your Friends) with Benjamin Wilms

Did you know why failures are your friend when it comes to testing? In this episode, Benjamin Wilms, co-founder of Steadybit, shares his views on resilience testing. Discover the difference between reliability, chaos, and resilience engineering, how resilience is a team sport, testing best practices, and how the Steadybit platform can help. Listen up!

Jan 11, 2023•27 min

Simplify Performance Engineering with Intelligence with Josef Mayrhofer

Do you want to know about an open-source performance toolbox that can help you plan your performance efforts? In this episode, Josef Mayrhofer, the founder of Performetriks, shares how you can improve the performance of your application. Discover an open-source performance toolbox that Josef and his team have created to help calculate concurrent users, session time, and other critical performance metrics. Also, listen in to hear about the role of AI in performance analysis and the future of perf...

Dec 14, 2022•28 min

Performance Tour 2023 BBQ with Scott Moore

What does BBQ have to do with performance testing and engineering? In this episode, Scott Moore, a well know industry Perfvangelist, shares all about the unique Performance Tour (theperformancetour.com). Discover what he's learned from a continuous road trip through different regions of the US, meeting with experts in the IT community and sharing knowledge and best practices. Listen to top trends for 2022 and future performance engineering predictions for 2023 and beyond.

Dec 07, 2022•29 min

Performance/SRE Awesomeness in Latin America

In this episode, I’ll speak with 12 speakers (Federico Toledo, Mark Tomlinson, Leandro Melendez, Henrik Rexed, Anisbert Suárez, Roger Abelenda, Laura Gayo, Nicolás Paez, Lucía Lavagna, Gerencia, Vera Babat, Mercedes Quintero Martínez & Andy Hohenner) from the upcoming Quality Sense Conference in Uruguay on Dec 9th. Many of the sessions taking place cover Performance and SRE-related topics. I had planned on being there myself, but I have other commitments I need to honor, BUT it’s not too lat...

Nov 29, 2022•23 min

What is Platform Engineering? with Evan Niedojadlo

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.

Nov 22, 2022•30 min

Collaborative Notebooks for Debugging Your Infrastructure with Micha Hernandez Van Leuffen

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. Try Fiberplane yourself: https://studio.fiberplane.com/ Learn more about Fiberplanes features: http://docs.fiberplane.com/...

Nov 15, 2022•26 min

Anyone can Performance Test with Eric Proegler

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.

Nov 09, 2022•26 min

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