
Jacob Hall
Lead Site Reliability Engineer, Dotcom-Monitor
Jacob Hall is a Lead Site Reliability Engineer at Dotcom-Monitor, the company behind LoadView, and also supports its sister brand Phone Number Monitoring. His job is to find out that something is broken before a customer does.
He works across synthetic monitoring, real user monitoring, and web application and API performance, along with voice systems: IVR testing, VoIP and SIP monitoring, and call quality measurement. He writes about load testing, reliability and incident response in plain language: what broke, and why.
Areas of expertise
- Site reliability engineering
- Synthetic and real user monitoring
- Web application and API performance
- IVR testing and VoIP/SIP monitoring
- Incident response and alerting
Elsewhere
Guides
- 15 Best Load Testing Tools & Software - 2026 Comparison
- API Load Testing – How-To & Best Practices
- Benchmark Testing Explained
- HTML Canvas Load Testing Explained
- JMeter Load Testing Tutorial for 2026
- Load Testing AJAX Applications with LoadView
- Load Testing vs. Stress Testing 2026 | Key Differences & Metrics
- Load Testing WebSocket Applications
- Postman Load Testing Tutorial
- Selenium Load Testing Explained
- Shift Left Testing
- WebRTC Load Testing Explained
- Website Stress Testing for Optimal Performance
- What is Behavior Driven Development (BDD)?
- What Is Component Testing?
- What is Load Testing? | Best Practices in 2026
- What is the Role of Load Testing in Disaster Recovery Planning?
- What Is Website Smoke Testing & When to Do It
- Why IT Leaders Should Consider Load Testing in DevOps
Articles
- When to Use Headless Browsers in Load Testing
- Reduce Cloud Costs with Load Testing: A Practical Playbook
- Cloud Scaling Rules in Load Testing: When Scaling Isn’t Automatic
- How to Load Test GraphQL Endpoints (the Right Way)
- Serverless Load Testing for AWS Lambda & Azure Functions
- How to Load Test Microservices for Scalability and Performance
- Load Testing Internal and Government Websites and Applications
- Load Testing Mobile Applications
- Leveraging Cloud for Load Testing
- Transitioning to the Future: Tricentis Flood.io Ends Its Load Testing Solution
- JavaScript Performance Testing: Best Practices and Tools
- Selenium vs. Cypress vs. LoadView: Who’s The Best?
- Microsoft Azure & Load Testing Services – Options, Considerations & More
- AWS Load Testing Services Explained
- Chaos Engineering: Principles, Examples & Tools
- JMeter Load Testing: How to Use JMeter for Performance Testing
- Docker Application Load Testing with LoadView
- Load Testing Single-Page Applications
- CI/CD Load Testing: Deploying Performance-Optimized Applications
- LoadView: Visual Studio Alternative for Load Testing .NET Applications
- Microservices Application Load Testing
- Can You Plan for DDOS Attacks with Load Testing?
- Load Testing GraphQL Web APIs
- Canary Testing: Automate and Scale Your Performance Tests with LoadView
- Load Testing within DevOps Practices
- Chrome Browser-based Load Testing
- How to Run JavaScript Performance Tests: The Ultimate Guide
- Testing Microsoft Azure Autoscale