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There's been a lot of chatter about this lately here, on Reddit, and on X. Since I have a background in both FinOps and O11y, this is my best vendor neutral attempt at breaking down the reasons that Datadog is so expensive. DISCLOSURE: I work for a DDOG competitor.

The battery backups (called uninterruptible power supplies) are only meant to bridge the gap between the power going out and the generator turning on, which is a few minutes. Did they say power was the issue this time? I suspect it’s actually something else (ahem network)

The author's bio "Mark Lantz is manager of the Advanced Tape Technologies at IBM Research Zurich."

LOL, ok sure man, the future of storage is definitely tape. :rolls eyes:

This is incredible. Need to go dig out the Bar-Mitzvah invitations I designed in MSpaint in 1990

Kenji is the best! Highly recommend his cookbook, The Food Lab. Several Kenji recipes are staples in our house. Kenji even convinced me that you can make a delicious quesadilla without cheese! https://www.seriouseats.com/cheese-free-sweet-potato-quesadi...

I forgot about that! Glad you came out ok in The Planet explosion, I remember that, it was insane. Fun fact: IBM now owns The Planet’s assets via Softlayer.

oh my. that reminds me of this story that I hadn't thought of in a long time, LOL: https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2012/07/09/outa...