Description
Matthew Schmitz is Director of Load and Performance Testing at Dotcom-Monitor. He leads engineers and developers working on LoadView, helping organizations test websites, web applications and APIs under realistic traffic and demanding enterprise workloads.
Matthew joined Dotcom-Monitor in 2012, initially working in Professional Services on performance monitoring, load testing and launch readiness. He later helped develop the company’s cloud-based performance testing tools as a Senior Web Performance Engineer and became Director of Load and Performance Testing in 2019.
Earlier in his career, Matthew held contract engineering and architecture roles at Wells Fargo and Ameriprise Financial, working on brokerage applications, performance tuning, capacity planning and load testing. He holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Minnesota and writes about web performance, testing and monitoring.
Expertise
- Load testing strategy and test planning
- Performance bottleneck analysis
- Website and web application scalability testing
- Stress and spike testing for high-traffic environments
- Synthetic monitoring and user journey validation
- Performance optimization for enterprise systems
How Synthetic Monitoring Can Warm Up Your CDN (and Why It Matters)
Monitoring Behind the Great Firewall
Monitoring Applications Written in Vue.js
Monitoring Distributed Systems
Challenges in Monitoring Applications That Use OAuth
How to Monitor Website Uptime: A Step-by-Step Guide
WebSocket Application Monitoring: An In-Depth Guide
How to Monitor HTML Canvas for Load and Uptime
Optimizing Web Performance: Understanding Waterfall Charts
Top 13 Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) Tools
SRE Incident Management: Overview, Techniques, and Tools
What is a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)?
How to Monitor Internal Applications Behind Your Firewall
Monitoring Applications That Use Azure ADFS
SLA Compliance for SaaS Businesses
Best Practices to Minimize Website Downtime
Challenges in Monitoring Web Applications That Utilize SSO
Monitoring Applications That Require IAM Authentication
Stack Trace Monitoring: Gaps in User Experience
Monitoring AJAX Applications
Monitoring Applications that use Okta for User Authentication
Why Traditional Monitoring Isn’t Enough for Modern Web Applications
Why a CDN Doesn’t Solve All Your Performance Needs
How Identity Management Authentication Works
ReactJS Applications Monitoring Challenges
What Does My Website Look Like From China? Test and Monitor Performance from China
What is a DNS Outage, and How Can You Prevent It?
What Is Digital Experience Monitoring? How to Watch Customer Journeys From Outside In
How to Choose a Monitoring Platform: Buyer’s Guide
Network Throttling: Monitor the User Experience