
PurePerformance
The brutal truth about digital performance engineering and operations.Andreas (aka Andi) Grabner and Brian Wilson are veterans of the digital performance world. Combined they have seen too many applications not scaling and performing up to expectations. With more rapid deployment models made possible through continuous delivery and a mentality shift sparked by DevOps they feel it’s time to share their stories. In each episode, they and their guests discuss different topics concerning performance, ranging from common performance problems for specific technology platforms to best practices in development, testing, deploying and monitoring software performance and user experience. Be prepared to learn a lot about metrics.Andi & Brian both work at Dynatrace, where they get to witness more real world customer performance issues than they can TPS report at.
Latest episodes

May 25, 2020 • 58min
Extreme load testing with 2Mio Virtual Users: Lessons learned with Joerek van Gaalen
How do you prepare for a 2Mio concurrent user load that lasts for 7 seconds? What does the load infrastructure look like? How do you optimize your scripts? How do you deal with DNS or CDNs?In this episode we hear from Joerek van Gaalen who has done these types of tests. He shares his experiences and approaches to running these “special event extreme load tests”. If you want to learn more make sure to check out his presentation and read his blog post from Neotys PAC 2020.https://www.linkedin.com/in/joerekvangaalen/https://www.neotys.com/performance-advisory-council/joerek_van_gaalen

May 11, 2020 • 1h 4min
Everything we messed up and learned when moving to AWS with Justin Donohoo
Have you ever burned 30k because you forgot to turn off your test VMs over the weekend? Have you ever accidentally deleted “the production table” because you thought you were connected to your dev database? We often only hear the good stories and not those that teach us about what we should not do in order to avoid disaster!Join this episode where Justin Donohoo, Founder and CTO of Observian, tells us horror stories from his professional life that taught him great lessons on what not to do when moving to the cloud, re-architecture because of exponential growth or let the intern do things he/she shouldn’t do.https://www.linkedin.com/in/jdonohoo/

Apr 27, 2020 • 58min
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of Open Source with Goranka Bjedov
Goranka Bjedov has seen the different sides of Open Source while she was working for organizations such as Google, Facebook or AT&T Labs. Before she takes the stage at www.devone.at later this year she gives us her take on Scott McNealy’s quote “Open Source is free like a puppy is free”. Tune in and hear her thoughts on how to pick the right tools, languages or frameworks, how to grow a an open source project and what things you should definitely avoid.https://www.linkedin.com/in/goranka-bjedov-5969a6/https://devone.at/

Apr 13, 2020 • 48min
Achieving Reliability through Chaos Engineering with Tammy Bütow
Starting your new job as Infrastructure Engineer in a large bank with your to-be boss and his key architects just leaving feels like Chaos! Maybe that’s why Tammy Butow has made a career in Chaos and Site Reliability Engineering. In this episode, Tammy shares her experiences of bring reliability into highly complex systems at NAB, Digital Ocean, DropBox or now Gremlin through chaos engineering. You learn about the importance to know and baseline your metrics, to define your SLIs and SLOs and to continuously run your fire drills to ensure your system is as reliable as it has to be.If you want to learn more check out Tammy’s presentations on speakerdeck and make sure to join the chaosengineering slack channel.https://www.linkedin.com/in/tammybutow/https://speakerdeck.com/tammybutowhttps://slofile.com/slack/chaosengineering

Mar 30, 2020 • 57min
Demystifying DevTestSecOps: Automating Security into your Culture with Adam Auerbach
3 years ago, Adam Auerbach explained how he helped Capital One to automate performance into the DevOps Delivery Pipeline. In 2020, where IT Security is a hot trending topic, Adam works for EPAM and is back advocating for the same shift-left he as advocated for when it comes to functional or performance testing. But now – its about baking Security into your practices & culture. And he has a cool word for it: DevTestSecOps!Listen in and learn which types of security checks can be fully automated in the different stages of the delivery pipeline. Also learn how to prioritize your vulnerabilities as you most likely end up with a lot of noise in the beginning. Adam also highlightes the following open source tools that will help in that transformation: getcarrier.io and reportportal.io.https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamauerbach/https://getcarrier.io/#abouthttps://reportportal.io/

Mar 16, 2020 • 30min
DesignOps with Barista: Scaling UX and UI Efficiency at Dynatrace
DesignOps, just as DevOps or NoOps, is targeted towards increasing the efficiency and collaboration between designers and engineers in order to deliver better, intuitive and consistent user experiences. It requires changes in processes, people and tooling and is heavily driven by enabling engineers to become more autonomous when developing and delivering new value for their organization.Join this podcast and learn from Ursula Wieshofer (@Ursula_W), UX Design Team Lead, as well as from Fabian Friedl (@fabian_friedl), DesignOps Team Lead, on how we live and breath DesignOps at Dynatrace. You will learn about the recently released OpenSource Design System Barista, how it enables our engineers to deliver consistent user experiences across all sorts of software projects and how we manage feedback through the Barista GitHub project for future innovation.Also make sure to check out the recent blog posts UX Guilds as well as how we deal with the constantly changing requirements of our design teams.https://twitter.com/Ursula_Whttps://twitter.com/fabian_friedlhttps://barista.dynatrace.com/https://github.com/dynatrace-oss/baristahttps://www.dynatrace.com/news/blog/a-running-start-towards-enablement-how-a-ux-guild-will-broaden-our-horizons/https://medium.com/@holgua/owning-the-unknown-d796e2705ac

Mar 2, 2020 • 60min
A Minimalistic Approach to Kubernetes with Kelsey Hightower
We're back to our regular scheduled show!Kelsey Hightower (@kelseyhightower) has worn many hats as it says on his bio but we also learned from him that he probably doesn’t have that many hats at home as he has been living a minimalistic life over the past couple of years. A philosophy as we learn in this podcast that also goes well when it comes to building your next platform on Kubernetes.In this podcast we learn about the do’s and don’ts, how you should plan and test for k8s upgrades, which tradeoffs you have to take as it comes to performance, how to think about developer productivity on k8s and why it is important to read up on security as it relates to the software we build, deploy and run on our k8s clusters.Thank you Kelsey for supporting our community with your time and expertise. Hope to have you back in the future!https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower

Feb 6, 2020 • 14min
Perform 2020 Finale
We wrap up the last day of the Dynatrace Perform 2020 conference with an announcement of winners and learnings for the week

Feb 6, 2020 • 14min
Perform 2020 en Español con Cesar Quintana
Vamos terminando el evento teniendo una platica con nuestro amigo Cesar Quintana quien tambien dio una vuelta por nuestro stand a platicar un poco de su experiencia en esta gran cxonferencia.

Feb 6, 2020 • 21min
Perform2020 Andi on the Street: NoOps, thresholds and hybrid observability
Andi Grabner, our man-on-the-street, gets the scoop on:-NoOps: Reaching zero-incident prod through auto-remediation-as-code with Juergen Etzlstorfer-Beyond thresholds – Find anomalies and reduce false positives with Thomas Natschlaeger-Hybrid observability, from enterprise cloud to mainframe and everything in between with Alex Huetter