Pomel: Datadog starts with off-the-shelf software before building proprietary systems
Olivier Pomel · Fireside Chat with Olivier Pomel (Founder & CEO of Datadog) and Matt Turck (Partner at FirstMark) · Jan 22, 2020 · at 8:53
Olivier Pomel, co-founder and CEO of Datadog, describes the engineering operating practice Datadog follows when introducing new infrastructure components and data types.
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“Well, we usually, when we build a new system or add a new data type, we usually start with something off the shelf and something open source. And at a small scale it's going to work. And then as we grow, as we get more and more data into it, as we see the many ways in which it doesn't work for us at scale, and as we get a much better understanding of our use case and the shape and velocity of the data, then we start building on. And that's been the MO throughout the life of the company.”
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