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Performance Time
Stephen Townshend
28 episodes
6 months ago
A show about performance testing and engineering (and human beings).

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A show about performance testing and engineering (and human beings).

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Technology
Episodes (20/28)
Performance Time
Performance Time Episode 28: The Grand Finale!
In this episode I wrap up the Performance Time show with some commentary around my blog "Wrapping up 13 years as a Performance Engineer" (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/wrapping-up-13-years-performance-engineering-stephen-townshend/)

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2 years ago
23 minutes 13 seconds

Performance Time
Performance Time Episode 27: Oh No! Not Documentation!
Can documentation be... fun? How is it relevant to SRE?

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2 years ago
12 minutes 16 seconds

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Performance Time Episode 26: Chicken or the Egg? SLI's and SLO's and which comes first?

This week we look at whether to identify SLI's or SLO's first - and take a look at how both approaches might look like with a ridiculous example.


The Google Site Reliability Book is free here: https://sre.google/books/ (I bought and listened to the audiobook on Audible).


The intro and background music is "Elevator Music Lofi" by Oleksii Kaplunskyi.


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2 years ago
9 minutes 28 seconds

Performance Time
Performance Time Episode 25: Defining Service Level Indicators

What are SLI's, SLO's, and SLA's? Why do they matter? How can you identify SLI's for your products?


The intro and background music is "Elevator Music Lofi" by Oleksii Kaplunskyi.


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2 years ago
15 minutes 15 seconds

Performance Time
Performance Time Episode 24: Kubernetes Explained
In this episode I attempt to explain Kubernetes and what it's all about.

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2 years ago
9 minutes 17 seconds

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Performance Time Episode 23: Docker

In this episode I try and explain Docker and containers as simply as possible.



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2 years ago
8 minutes 34 seconds

Performance Time
Performance Time Episode 22: Signals Amongst the Noise

How do you know what to alert on? And are there things we shouldn't alert on? What about dashboards?


In this episode we talk about locating signals amongst the noise of monitoring and logging data in our organisations.


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2 years ago
8 minutes 34 seconds

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Performance Time Episode 21: The Four Golden Signals
This week we talk about the Four Golden Signals, a starting point when choosing what to monitor and alert on in your software platforms.

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2 years ago
11 minutes 48 seconds

Performance Time
Performance Time Episode 20: What is SRE?
In this episode I share my first week working as an SRE and try to explain what it's all about.

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2 years ago
11 minutes 48 seconds

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Performance Time Episode 19: Not As Broken
In this update I give a quick update on how things are going and where the podcast is going next.

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2 years ago
8 minutes 25 seconds

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Performance Time Episode 18: Broken

In this episode I share an experience of work related anxiety I recently went through.


Shout out to Joey Hendricks for reviewing this content before it went live.


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2 years ago
17 minutes 28 seconds

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Performance Time Episode 17: Engineer to Advocate

What are the challenges when performance engineers are asked to move away from hands on technical work, into advocating and enabling others?


Shout out to Sajeesh Nair and Ben Rowan who's LinkedIn comments I refer to.


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2 years ago
10 minutes 33 seconds

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Performance Time Episode 16: Performance and Customer Experience
In 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.

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2 years ago
9 minutes 59 seconds

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Performance Time Episode 15: Say It Ain't Slow

Third 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 website just the other day

It’s not cool

Say it ain’t slow

Your site is unbearable

Say it ain’t slow

My business is going elsewhere

Dear website

I try you, in spite of years of slowness

You’ve cleaned up, got faster, (even) using a CDN now

This gigan-tic image, awakens ancient feelings

Frustration, desperation, all of your customers are goooooonneee…

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Say it ain’t slow

Your site is unbearable

Say it ain’t slow

My business is going elsewhere


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2 years ago
5 minutes 26 seconds

Performance Time
Performance Time Episode 14: The Hourglass Model
Doing more early (shifting left) and doing more in production (shifting right) to reduce how much end to end performance testing we need to do.

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2 years ago
11 minutes 15 seconds

Performance Time
Performance Time Episode 13: An Interview with Nicole van der Hoeven

In 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 nicole@k6.io 


The two books mentioned are Modern Technical Writing by Andrew Etter and The Art of Statistics by David Spiegelhalter.


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2 years ago
43 minutes 5 seconds

Performance Time
Performance Time Episode 12: To Stub or Not To Stub?
In 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.

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2 years ago
21 minutes 9 seconds

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Performance Time Episode 11: Performance Test Data
In this episode we explore the unique challenges of managing test data during load testing, and some solutions to make our lives easier.

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2 years ago
22 minutes 42 seconds

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Performance Time Episode 10: An Interview with Stijn Schepers
Join Stijn and I as we discuss culture change, coincidences, war rooms, unicorns, penguins, McDonald's testing, and many other things.

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2 years ago
46 minutes 58 seconds

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Performance Time Episode 9: An Interview with Alan Gordon
Join me as a I chat with performance specialist Alan Gordon about stress and anxiety as a performance engineer.

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2 years ago
36 minutes 37 seconds

Performance Time
A show about performance testing and engineering (and human beings).

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.