We're super excited to share some insights from a recent episode of the SMC Journal podcast featuring none other than our co-founder and CEO, Benjamin Wilms. A deep dive into the realm of performance engineering, this episode unpacks the world of resilience testing, chaos engineering, and, of course, the role Steadybit is playing in all this. 

Screen of Scott Moore and Benjamin Wilms during the Podcast.

Supported by OpenText, a global heavyweight in this field, the podcast started with a quick tour through the LoadRunner Professional documentation and the LoadRunner Help Center online. This provided some nifty insights into the 'Chaos Testing for Scenarios' section, which is a must-read for anyone in this sphere. It's all about resilience, people! This episode really puts a spotlight on the integrations between two companies: LoadRunner and Steadybit.

Screen of the LoadRunner Professional documentation and the LoadRunner Help Center online during the Podcast.

In case you haven't heard, we're a bit of a big deal in the public cloud and on-prem environments. Steadybit empowers users to define and run chaos experiments against applications under test. This is gold for figuring out the resilience of an application and getting additional metrics during load tests. 

Benjamin, being the amazing resource that he is, shares his wisdom on resilience engineering and how it's shaping the market today. He passionately discusses how even small teams can implement chaos engineering with the resources available. It’s not just limited to big organizations, and that’s an important message. 

By proactively checking production stability during development, teams can smooth the transition to production, leaving them free to add more features later. Want to design and execute specific experiments? Steadybit's got you covered. AWS zone outage? DNS outage? We'll help you monitor your system's reaction to a latency spike or track error rates. You can even analyze log files and Kubernetes activity. And the best part? All this data from your monitoring systems is brought together in a neat, consolidated report. 

Our co-founder's chat with Scott Moore, the host of SMC Journal, touched on a host of topics, from software testing and tuning to observability, monitoring, security, and resiliency. Scott, being a founder of a new company himself, was keen to understand how our integration with LoadRunner, a major load testing product, was shaping the future of load testing. 

Speaking of the future, there was talk of a cool new feature on the horizon for LoadRunner. Picture this: a landscape that identifies weak spots in your network or your cloud provider. Now that's guidance worth waiting for, right? 

One key takeaway from the episode was the trade-off between investing in reliability and delivering new features. Striking the right balance is essential for success, and Benjamin believes adopting chaos and resiliency engineering is the way to go, especially for complex applications. 

So, whether you're part of a big organization or a small team, take some time to explore the episode. It might just help you optimize the resources – software, people, and otherwise – at your disposal to make your applications more resilient and your whole organization better.

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