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In the process of building a monitoring and analytics platform that ingests trillions of data points a day, Datadog has learned many lessons about scalable, distributed systems in the cloud. We'd like to share those experiences with our community in this series: "Datadog on..."

Each episode will offer a conversation with the engineers who build Datadog. They'll share real-world experiences architecting, building, operating, and monitoring modern systems giving you actionable information you can apply at your organization. With plenty of time left for Q&A, we'd like you to join the discussion.

Upcoming Episodes


Datadog on Rust: Return of Rust

October 29, 2025

Duarte Nunes, Toby Lawrence and Scott Gerring

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Join us for an updated look at Datadog's journey with Rust, a programming language that has gained significant popularity over the past few years both for systems engineering, and for high-performance backend services.


Datadog on Apache Iceberg

November 20, 2025

Alessandro Nori, Leopold Boudard and Ara Pulido

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Historically, Datadog has relied on technologies like Snowflake and Apache Spark on raw parquet files (lacking consistent table structure) to power internal analytics and data science at scale. As usage grew across product teams, more features depended on data science teams, and our datasets grew to include more telemetry data, these s...


Past Episodes


Datadog on Datadog

March 4, 2025

Kris Kennaway, Angela Beteta and Ara Pulido

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Datadog on Cloud Workload Identities

November 5, 2024

Ian Ferguson, Tabitha Sable and Christophe Tafani-Dereeper

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Datadog on Building Reliable Distributed Applications Using Temporal

October 29, 2024

Allen George, Loic Minaudier and Ara Pulido

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Speakers

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Scott Gerring

Developer Advocate

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Ara Pulido headshot

Ara Pulido

Staff Developer Advocate

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Christophe Tafani-Dereeper headshot

Christophe Tafani-Dereeper

Cloud Security Researcher & Advocate

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Juliano Costa headshot

Juliano Costa

Developer Advocate

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Rory McCune headshot

Rory McCune

Senior Security Advocate

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Jason Hand headshot

Jason Hand

Senior Developer Advocate

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