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Effortless Load Testing | Simon Aronsson (Load Impact / k6)

Load testing and performance monitoring used to be really hard and bothersome. Not any more! With modern code-first tools and visualisation, being on top of your service scalability and performance is no longer something that's reserved for the QA department. According to research by Google, 53% of mobile website visitors will leave if the page load duration exceeds three seconds. Armed with this knowledge, We'll go through how to implement load tests and performance monitoring around it as well as how to efficiently visualize it.

How to Use the Datadog CLI on Kubernetes | Datadog Tips & Tricks

In this video, you’ll learn how to use the Datadog command line interface (CLI) on Kubernetes to perform key tasks, including checking the status of the agent and viewing custom checks. The Datadog Agent CLI allows you to check the status of the Agents running on the pods in your Kubernetes clusters. It also provides various helpful commands, including starting and stopping the agent, viewing configured custom checks, and sending flares to the Datadog support team to automatically open troubleshooting tickets.

Identifying Environment Right Sizing Opportunities for Cost Efficiency | Datadog Tips & Tricks

In this video, you’ll learn how to use the host map to identify opportunities to rightsize your environment to become more cost efficient. MoneySuperMarket Group was able to cut their cloud infrastructure costs by over 50% by utilizing Datadog. This video unpacks some of the practices used by MoneySuperMarket’s engineering team to accomplish that.

Datadog on RocksDB

Datadog is a monitoring and analytics platform that ingests trillions of data points per day, coming from more than 8,000 customers. Each of those is associated with metadata, mostly in the form of tags, and it can also be part of streams of related data points, which can then be explored, queried, or aggregated. RocksDB is used by many services at Datadog that are part of that metrics ingestion, aggregation, query, and index pipeline.