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Real user monitoring vs. synthetic monitoring: Understanding best practices

Dynatrace

RUM, however, has some limitations, including the following: RUM requires traffic to be useful. RUM works best only when people actively visit the application, website, or services. Because RUM relies on user-generated traffic, it’s hard to indicate persistent issues across the board. Real user monitoring limitations.

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HTTP/3: Practical Deployment Options (Part 3)

Smashing Magazine

You would, however, be hard-pressed even today to find a good article that details the nuanced best practices. This is because, as I stated in the introduction to part 1 , much of the early HTTP/2 content was overly optimistic about how well it would work in practice, and some of it, quite frankly, had major mistakes and bad advice.

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HTTP/3: Performance Improvements (Part 2)

Smashing Magazine

In those set-ups, however (if they’re done correctly), your device will typically keep its IP intact, because the transition between wireless base stations is done at a lower protocol layer. As such, one best practice or optimization can end up undoing another. And it gets worse. Did You Know? Finally convinced?