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Top tips is a weekly column where we highlight what’s trending in the tech world and list ways to explore these trends. This week, we’ll look at three steps a business can take to protect themselves from disinformation. Over the past three years, your two-person startup has gained enough traction to turn into a 500-employee business. Your life’s work is materializing in front of your eyes, and it’s only uphill from here.

“Developer experience” is the buzzword, hot topic, and must-address area. Countless tools and platforms have emerged, each promising to help developers “ship faster” by reducing bottlenecks and improving workflows.

Several years ago—in 2016, to be exact—we decided to host the Checkly platform on Heroku, since it was the hosted cloud offering (at the time) that best aligned with our needs. In particular, we felt that Heroku offered the best PostgreSQL cloud offering available at the time.

DataDog and Prometheus are both popular monitoring solutions used to collect and analyze metrics and monitor the performance of systems, but Prometheus is open source and Datadog is proprietary. Datadog provides a unified platform for monitoring, troubleshooting, and optimizing modern cloud-native applications and infrastructure. Prometheus is the most popular tool for monitoring time series metrics. So, how to choose between Datadog and Prometheus?