




About this Virtual Performance Advisory Council
On October 7-8, during 24 hours, 20 Performance Experts presented “follow the sun” virtual conferences about what’s new in performance engineering, for people all around the world.
The recording will be available very soon. Stay tuned!
The Council
Srivalli APARNA
Software Performance & Automation Consultant
Stijn SCHEPERS
Senior Performance Engineer and DevOps Advocate
Hari Krishnan RAMACHANDRAN
Head of Non Functional Testing & Engineering CoE
Luca CAVAZZANA
Cloud Solutions Engineer
Martin SPIER
Performance Architect
Joey HENDRICKS
Junior Performance Engineer
Mark TOMLINSON
Performacologist
Scott STEVENS
Senior Technical Consultant
Ramya RAMALINGA MOORTHY
Quality Assurance Evangelist
Harinder SEERA
Consultant, Performance Engineer
Patrick HIGGINS
Chaos Engineer
Leandro MELENDEZ
Performance Test Manager
Stephen TOWNSHEND
Software Performance Specialist
Alan GORDON
Performance Engineer
Cristian VALDEBENITO ESPINOSA
Líder de Producto
Hemalatha MURUGESAN
Senior Delivery Manager
Alexander PODELKO
Consulting Member of Technical Staff, Performance engineering
Andreas GRABNER
DevOps Activist
Roman FERSTL
Performance Engineer
Oscar MORALES
Arquitecto de performance
Todd DECAPUA
IT Markets, Advisory Engineer

Agenda – October 7-8, 2020
5:00 am – 5:30 am (CEST)
Neotys – Introduction
5:30 am – 6:15 am (CEST) • 4:30 pm – 5:15 pm (NZDT)
Srivalli Aparna – Observability in cloud-based solutions
6:30 am – 7:15 am (CEST) • 5:30 pm – 6:15 pm (NZDT)
Stephen Townshend – Tableausaurus Rex
7:30 am – 8:15 am (CEST) • 6:30 pm – 7:15 pm (NZDT)
Scott Stevens – How I learnt to stop worrying and embrace my inner Dinosaur
8:30 am – 9:15 am (CEST) • 5:30 pm – 6:15 pm (AEDT)
Harinder Seera – Performance Test Tool ≠ Performance Testing
09:45 am – 10:00 am (CEST)
Henrik Rexed – Previously + What’s coming next
10:00 am – 10:45 am (CEST) • 1:30 pm – 2:15 pm (IST)
Hari Krishnan Ramachandran – Non Functional Requirements – force behind better software
11:00 am – 11:45 am (CEST) • 2:30 pm – 3:15 pm (IST)
Hemalatha Murugesan – Performance – What Next post Pandemic
12:00 pm – 12:45 pm (CEST) • 3:30 pm – 4:15 pm (IST)
Ramya Ramalinga Moorthy – XMPP Performance Testing using TSung
12:45 am – 1:30 pm (CEST)
Break
1:30 pm – 1:45 pm (CEST)
Henrik Rexed – Previously + What’s coming next
1:45 pm – 2:30 pm (CEST)
Stijn Schepers – Raw Data: The #1 superfood for a Performance Tester
2:45 pm – 3:30 pm (CEST)
Andreas Grabner – Automate Test Analysis with a custom Keptn SLI Provider
3:45 pm – 4:30 pm (CEST)
Alan Gordon – Continuous Performance Engineering: Automating Feedback from Ops to Dev and Test
4:45 pm – 5:30 pm (CEST)
Roman Ferstl – Automated Quality Gates in Performance Testing
5:45 pm – 6:30 pm (CEST)
Joey Hendricks – Performance Testing On The Unit Level
6:45 pm – 7:30 pm (CEST) • 6:30 pm – 7:15 pm (BST)
Luca Cavazzana – Min $: Optimizing Spark Costs on AWS with AI-Powered Tuning
7:30 pm – 8:15 pm (CEST)
Break
8:15 pm – 8:30 pm (CEST)
Henrik Rexed – Previously + What’s coming next
8:30 pm – 9:15 pm (CEST) • 2:30 pm – 3:15 pm (EDT)
Todd DeCapua – How to aggregate and correlate to informed decisions, leveraging all of your data collectors, automating your pipeline for speed / quality / low cost through this proven and innovative practice
09:30 pm – 10:15 pm (CEST) • 2:30 pm – 3:15 pm (Local Time in Colombia)
Cristian Valdebenito Espinosa & Oscar Morales – How possible it is to make an automatic or semi-automatic update to our performance scripts?
10:30 pm – 11:15 pm (CEST) • 4:30 pm – 5:15 pm (EDT)
Alexander Podelko – Should performance testing grow fur or feathers to be saved from extinction?
11:15 pm – 11:45 pm (CEST)
Break
11:45 pm – 12:00 am (CEST)
Henrik Rexed – Previously + What’s coming next
12:00 am – 12:45 am (CEST) • 3:00 pm – 3:45 pm (PDT)
Sofía Palamarchuk – Enhance Mobile User Experience through Performance Testing
1:00 am – 1:45 am (CEST) • 4:00 pm – 4:45 pm (PDT)
Martin Spier – FlameCommander – Netflix’s Cloud Profiler
2:00 am – 2:45 am (CEST) • 8:00 pm – 8:45 pm (EDT)
Mark Tomlinson – Observability for Performance Engineers
3:00 am – 3:45 am (CEST) • 6:00 pm – 6:45 pm (PDT)
Patrick Higgins – Chaos Engineering Fundamentals
4:00 am – 4:45 am (CEST) • 9:00 pm – 9:45 pm (CDT)
Leandro Melendez – Theory: Cloning dino-automations from living beings from the past
4:45 am – 5:00 am (CEST)
Henrik Rexed – Conclusion
