PurePerformance

Performance Engineering is not about running a performance test twice a year. That is just a poor attempt trying to validate your non functional requirements.Roman Ferstl, Managing Directory at Triscon, has discovered his love for performance engineering while optimizing code for software used in a space program. He then founded Triscon who is now helping to establish and scale performance engineering at large enterprises. In this episode we get his insights on how he approaches a new project, which bottlenecks to address first and how to motivate more people within an organization to invest in performance engineering.If you want to learn more don’t miss to check out Roman’s presentation from Perform 2021 titled “Turbocharging your Performance Engineering teams to scale efficiently”https://www.linkedin.com/in/roman-ferstl/https://www.triscon-it.com/en/https://perform.dynatrace.com/2021-americas/breakouts-single-day-3-turbocharging-your-performance-engineering-teams

To k8s or not – that should be the first question to answer before considering k8s. Granted – in many cases k8s is going to be the right choice but don’t just default to k8s because its hip or cool.In this episode we have Christian Heckelmann (@wurstsalat), DevOps Engineer at ERT, talking about his journey with k8s which started with installing k8s 1.9 on bare metal. He gives a lot of great advice based on his presentation “How not to start with k8s” such as Understand Networking, Don’t use :latest, Set Resource Limits, Train The People, Provide Templates and more.To get started with Kubernetes we encourage you to look at the YouTube Tutorials posted on TechWorld with Nana.https://twitter.com/wurstsalathttps://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1EL9OYe-1eOPXh6U8SMHnQxs8pcmr01d-uwoWoFnzUaY/edit#slide=id.g5420f4ebeb_0_5https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdngmbVKX1Tgre699-XLlUA

You heard about Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment. Liquid Software aims to provide the next step towards Trusted Continuous Updates in the DevOps World.In this episode Baruch Sadogursky, DevOps Advocate from JFrog, explains how as engineers we need to add “Updateability” to our non-functional requirements and how product managers and marketing have to forget about traditional releases but think about incremental delivery of value. Baruch (@jbaruch) also promised to send everyone a hard copy of his book “Liquid Software” if you send him a direct message – so – make sure you do that and also check out the details on our discussion of uniquely identifying artifacts through Build-Info.https://www.linkedin.com/in/jbaruch/https://twitter.com/jbaruchhttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1PUb67FxM-eTtdyLNGPc-fGTcCJii-keE/viewhttps://github.com/jfrog/build-info

Software security is about securing websites against malicious attacks or using firewalls to prevent hackers entering your enterprise network. While this is part of software security there is much more that needs to be done – especially as more organizations are developing critical software it is important to protect the whole software delivery lifecycle from any malicious attacks along the supply chain.In this episode we have Michael Plank, Technical Product Manager at Dynatrace, talk about his latest blog post titled How Dynatrace protects its software development and delivery life cycle against supply chain attacks. We learn about attack vectors from development workstation until production deployment. He covers the strategies ranging from static to dynamic code analysis, vulnerability detection or code signatures. Tune in and learn that building secure software is more than ensuring your users have hard to crack passwords!https://www.dynatrace.com/news/blog/how-dynatrace-protects-its-software-development-and-delivery-life-cycle-against-supply-chain-attacks/

If you are not a gamer you may have never heard about Cyberpunk 2077. If you are – you may know about the challenges during their latest release.Dave Farley (@davefarley77), Co-Author of best seller Continuous Delivery, has been an engineering large and complex systems for decades. His work helped elevate our industry around Continuous Delivery and DevOps. In this episode he shares his learnings from failed projects like Cyberpunk as well as his own latest experiences around that picking the latest technology might be fashionable but is not always the smartest choice.To learn more about Dave check out Continuous Delivery website that also links to his YouTube Channel hosting some of the episodes he was referencing in the podcast.https://twitter.com/davefarley77https://www.amazon.com/Continuous-Delivery-Deployment-Automation-Addison-Wesley/dp/0321601912#ace-g9859629705https://www.continuous-delivery.co.uk/https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCfqyGl3nq_V0bo64CjZh8g

Nobody has foreseen the global pandemic that put a lot of chaos in all our lives recently. Let’s just hope we learn from 2020 to better prepare on what might be next.The same preparation and learning also goes for Chaos in our distributed systems that power our digital lives. And to learn from those stories and better prepare for common resiliency issues we brought back Ana Medina (@ana_m_medina), Chaos Engineer at Gremlin. As a follow up to our previous podcast with Ana, she is now sharing several stories from her chaos engineering engagements across different industries such as finance, eCommerce or travel. Definitely worth listening in as Chaos Engineering was also put into the Top 5 Technologies to look into 2021 by CNCF.https://twitter.com/Ana_M_Medinahttps://www.spreaker.com/user/pureperformance/why-you-should-look-into-chaos-engineerihttps://twitter.com/CloudNativeFdn/status/1329863326428499971

When moving to microservice architectures its time to re-think continuous delivery. Just as many software services rely on a core data analytics engine to make better automated decisions we need to apply the same for continuous delivery. We can assess the risk of every microservice deployment based on data from production and the desired change of configuration. We can assess the potential blast radius and mitigate it through modern delivery options such as blue/green, canaries or feature flags.Tracy Ragan, Creator & CEO of DeployHub, CDF board member and DevOps Institute Ambassador shares her thoughts on why we need to move to smarter data-driven delivery pipelines. Tracy (@TracyRagan) gives us insights into why not every microservice is created equal and what approaches we can take to better control updates that contain multiple microservice updates.Also make sure to check out their latest project Ortelius and take Tracy up on a virtual coffee chat as discussed in our podcast!https://www.linkedin.com/in/tracy-ragan-oms/https://twitter.com/TracyRaganhttps://github.com/orteliushttps://go.oncehub.com/15-30MinuteVirtualCoffeeWithTracy

K8s enables organizations to more easily deploy their containerized solutions as it takes away a lot of the operational tasks which are built-into k8s. This in theory means that you can run your software anywhere and provide it as SaaS offering or deploy it behind corporate firewalls for those customers that demand an on-premise installation.In this episode we have Marc Campbell, Founder and CTO of Replicated, where they help the k8s community to deliver and manage apps on k8s anywhere. For anyone looking into running their apps on k8s you will learn the challenges of Day 1 (delivery, install) and Day 2 (operation, monitoring, troubleshooting) operations. Marc shares common performance and scalability challenges and how to prepare for them during development.In this episode we have Marc Campbell, Founder and CTO of Replicated, where they help the k8s community to deliver and manage apps on k8s anywhere. For anyone looking into running their apps on k8s you will learn the challenges of Day 1 (delivery, install) and Day 2 (operation, monitoring, troubleshooting) operations. Marc shares common performance and scalability challenges and how to prepare for them during development.https://www.linkedin.com/in/campbe79/https://www.replicated.com/https://www.heavybit.com/library/podcasts/the-kubelist-podcast/ep-7-keptn-with-andreas-grabner-of-dynatrace/https://troubleshoot.sh/https://kots.io/

Stefan Frandl, Development Director, has a single digit employee number at Dynatrace and therefore seen a lot of agile transformation over the past 15 years – growing from a startup in Linz, Austria to now 800+ engineers across globally distributed labs. A visit to several “unicorns” such as Google, Facebook and Slack triggered the latest agile transformation.In this episode Stefan walks us through the implementation of the changes we discussed with Andrea Holl in her episode on “Scaling Agile at Dynatrace”. He shares the challenges around growing responsibilities of team leads, work left half-finished, overhead on hand-over and cross team collaboration. He then introduces us to the current structure and processes at Dynatrace such as Team Captains, Product Owners and Agile Advocates as well as Dev Directors and Lead Product Engineers. While Dynatrace has seen many benefits already, the journey is still ongoing as Dynatrace is continuously rethinking and improving the way we work and provide value to our customers!https://www.linkedin.com/in/stefan-frandl-aa86723/https://www.spreaker.com/user/pureperformance/scaling-agile-at-dynatrace-with-andrea-h

SAFE, LESS or the Spotify Model? Which scaled agile method to apply for your transformation? Or are you unique enough like 44% of organizations based on a European research that are defining their own scaled agile approach to transform successfully?In this episode we sit down with Andrea Holl, Agile Coach at Dynatrace, and let her walk us through the different scaled agile frameworks. She discusses the pros and cons and why many organizations – including Dynatrace – are coming up with their own approaches. For Dynatrace it was about taking the best from the proven frameworks but adapting them to allow us continue or core cultural values such as full autonomy to teams and flexibility of tools and processes.If you are on the brink of a transformation make sure to listen to Andrea and how she and her teams have approached that transformational project!https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrea-elisabeth-holl-b2255a112/https://www.scaledagileframework.com/https://less.works/https://blog.crisp.se/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/SpotifyScaling.pdf