Le-Quoc: A team's software understanding is only as good as its monitoring
Alexis Le-Quoc · Data: Monitoring to Analytics to Understanding // Alexis Le-Quoc, Datadog · Nov 23, 2015 · at 4:32
Alexis Le-Quoc, Founder and CTO of Datadog, explains the fundamental limits of software telemetry during a presentation on modern monitoring infrastructure.
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“For all the customers the understanding that they have of the application is only as good as their monitoring.”
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