Jesse Friedman continues his conversation with Wes Tatters from Rapyd Cloud, exploring performance benchmarking through Orderly Apes, why successful sites need white-glove service expectations, and how WordPress hosts defend against SaaS platform migration. They discuss WordPress scalability challenges, the importance of contributing to WordPress core, and why data ownership makes WordPress superior to closed platforms. 

Performance and Testing Tools

• Orderly Apes - Open source performance testing dashboard forked from K6
• K6 - Performance testing tool acquired by Grafana
• Grafana - Monitoring and observability platform
• WP Hosting Benchmarks - Kevin Ohashi's WordPress hosting performance reviews
• Review Signal - Web hosting reviews and benchmarks

Platforms and Products

• BuddyBoss - WordPress community platform and social networking plugin
• The Happy Pear - Vegan lifestyle community that started on BuddyBoss
• Fluent Communities - WordPress community platform with BuddyBoss importer
• SureCart - WordPress e-commerce plugin
• Fluent Cart - WooCommerce alternative
• LearnDash - WordPress LMS
• Tutor LMS - WordPress learning management system
• LifterLMS - WordPress LMS platform
• Elementor - WordPress page builder
• Advanced Custom Fields - WordPress custom fields plugin

WordPress Community Resources

• WordPress Make Hosting Team - WordPress hosting contributor team
• WordPress Make Slack - WordPress contributor Slack channels
• WordPress TV - WordCamp presentations and talks
• Five for the Future - WordPress contribution initiative
• WordCamp Europe
• WordCamp Brisbane
• WordCamp US
• CloudFest

Security Tools

• WP Scan - WordPress security vulnerability database
• PatchStack - WordPress vulnerability protection (mentioned in previous episode)

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