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Have You Tested Your App Performance & Capacity Recently?

Apica

The spread of where consumers want to consume content, at home, at the office, at the gym, on a plane, at any time where there is connectivity, puts significant pressure on the network and performance monitoring teams for streaming brands. Load and stress-testing benchmark goals for the backend technological components.

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Real user monitoring vs. synthetic monitoring: Understanding best practices

Dynatrace

In some cases, you will lack benchmarking capabilities. For example, the ability to test against a wireless provider in a remote area. Synthetic monitoring is well suited for catching regressions during development lifecycles, especially with network throttling. RUM generates a lot of data. Synthetic monitoring drawbacks.