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Ask a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Site reliability engineering (SRE) can be complicated, and at Datadog, we’ve spent a lot of time thinking about SRE and refining how we implement it. Join Datadog’s Brandon West and Rick Mangi as they provide a brief overview of SRE and its core concepts. This video also contains a Q&A session from the live taping of this panel.

FinOps and Cloud Cost Optimization

As companies scale, it’s become increasingly important to keep cloud cost management and optimization top of mind. In this talk, Yuval Yogev from Sygnia walks you through Sygnia’s optimization journey of cutting their total cloud costs in half. Yogev also shares insights into how you can optimize your own organization’s cloud usage and spend.

Deploying OpenTelemetry Organizationally: From Proof of Concept to In-Production at Scale

Observability involves telling a coherent story about an entire system. Over the years, video streaming service Pluto TV has had to navigate many storytellers in terms of observability vendors, tools, and formats before settling on OpenTelemetry to analyze and compare features across its many destination platforms. During this presentation, you'll see how Bharathi Ramachandran—Engineering Manager at Pluto TV—used OpenTelemetry to implement his initial proof of concept and get his entire organization shipping observability data at scale.

Changing Perspectives: A Deep Dive into the Security Posture of 600+ Real-World AWS Environments

Earlier this year, Datadog released the “State of AWS Security” study, which examined real-world data from more than 600 organizations and AWS accounts to understand the security posture of global AWS users who also leverage the Datadog Cloud Security Platform. Join Datadog’s Christophe Tafani-Dereeper and Andrew Krug as they explore some important insights from this study, such as the top ways organizations are breached on AWS and how tooling like Datadog Cloud Security Posture Management can help.

Auditing Your Automation's Access: Using More Automation

Between CI/CD pipelines, container orchestrators, and developer debugging tools, more and more automation is needed to scale your systems. But how do you know if that automation is accessing the right systems at the right time? And how do you ensure that your automation is safe from exploits by unauthorized users?

The Top 10 Open-Source Products From KubeCon North America 2022

KubeCon is the major cloud-native gathering of thousands of people from around the globe. The event is attended by many emerging startups and companies working on revolutionary products around Kubernetes, security, containers, and DevOps. It is a great opportunity to share insights and collaborate on various community projects.

MSP Sales: Close the Deal Every Time

Try Googling “Ways to up your sales game” and you’ll find thousands of articles from experts touting claims that their MSP sales process is best—with no shortage of buzzwords to hook you in. But in both selling to, and selling with, MSPs over the years, I’ve found that chasing buzzwords and buying into the latest craze both dilutes and compromises an authentic experience with a prospective customer, and the worst part is the customer can feel it the moment it happens.

Mapping service vulnerabilities with Mend

Mend is an automated vulnerability scanning tool that helps teams detect and resolve issues quickly. Mend can discover outdated packages and tell you if you’re relying on tools with known issues. Then, through automated remediation, Mend creates pull requests for developers with specific guidance on resolving those issues. Mend conducts static code analysis as well as package and dependency management analysis to identify weaknesses.

What Is Blockchain? How Blockchain Technology Works to Make the Internet Safer

You may have heard the word “blockchain” floating around quite a lot recently. However, you may be unsure of what it actually means. However, with companies expected to spend $20 billion per annum on blockchain technical services by the end of 2024, it’s time we all got a bit more familiar with it. Below, we will explain what blockchain is and the technology behind it so you can get a better understanding.

The Quest For Sunken Treasure: Top-Down Vs. Bottom-Up Cloud Cost Allocation

High-quality cloud cost allocation has become an existential issue for businesses. In order to get as much out of their (mounting) cloud investments as possible, business leaders need to know how much they’re spending in the cloud, what/who they’re spending it on, and whether there’s a good reason for it. In its ideal form, cost allocation answers all these questions.