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Cisco Is Said to Have Offered $7B-Plus for DataDog

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Re: Cisco Is Said to Have Offered $7B-Plus for DataDog

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Post by Cpoll »

nodesocket wrote: post #12

I am very keen on picking up some $DDOG shares tomorrow when it IPO'S. As part of my DevOps consultancy I recommend DataDog to nearly all my clients. They check all the boxes in one unified platform: [X] Server / cloud resource monitoring and alerting [ https://www.datadoghq.com/dashboarding/ ] [X] Logging [ https://docs.datadoghq.com/logs/ ] [X] APM (application performance) [ https://docs.datadoghq.com/tracing/ ] […

> HTTP/API endpoint checks and alerts

Do you manually configure these in the web UI? I wasn't able to find an API or repo sync for these last time I looked, and it doesn't seem feasible to manually make sets of synthetics for every environment we manage.

Re: Cisco Is Said to Have Offered $7B-Plus for DataDog

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Post by Railsify »

onion2k wrote: post #43
Swizec wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Why work at all when I can drive my Ferrari collection, all damn day. That's fun for a week, maybe even a month, then you'd get bored. Humans need purpose and we like structure. Complete freedom terrifies and unsettles us. Source: All my life I wanted nothing but to have enough cash in bank to take a year off and do whatever. When I got it ... at first I panicked, then I considered the boundless possibilities, then…

Purpose and structure doesn't have to come from a job. I took 2 years off, and then spent another 2 years working on a startup without getting paid for most of it, and it was one of the most fulfilling things I've done.

This is what I have been doing for the past 13 months, living on saving and building my dream startup... It's going ok, we are launching out first version before the end of the year, after about 6 months of delays.

Re: Cisco Is Said to Have Offered $7B-Plus for DataDog

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Post by Railsify »

Swizec wrote: post #25
Railsify wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would expect this exactly. Why work at all when I can drive my Ferrari collection, all damn day.

> Why work at all when I can drive my Ferrari collection, all damn day. That's fun for a week, maybe even a month, then you'd get bored. Humans need purpose and we like structure. Complete freedom terrifies and unsettles us. Source: All my life I wanted nothing but to have enough cash in bank to take a year off and do whatever. When I got it ... at first I panicked, then I considered the boundless possibilities, then…

I guess I was exaggerating a tad bit, you can have a Ferrari for 3k per month, after all it's just a car and your back would hurt literally driving it all day. I was think that mundane things like running to the Post Office or picking kid up from school would be a blast because all trips start and end with a roar. Of course you have to be a car person, some people would get the same feeling from riding their bicycle.

Re: Cisco Is Said to Have Offered $7B-Plus for DataDog

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Post by swasheck »

Unpopular take incoming ... but I find DataDog useless. I’m biased as I’m a DBA and comprehensive workload metrics are what I need, but the broad use of DataDog or AppDynamics or NewRelic really do data layer performance monitoring a tremendous disservice. Good luck for Cisco that they were shot down.

Re: Cisco Is Said to Have Offered $7B-Plus for DataDog

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Post by yourapostasy »

swasheck wrote: post #105

Unpopular take incoming ... but I find DataDog useless. I’m biased as I’m a DBA and comprehensive workload metrics are what I need, but the broad use of DataDog or AppDynamics or NewRelic really do data layer performance monitoring a tremendous disservice. Good luck for Cisco that they were shot down.

What do you use as a DBA? I see some DBA's turn to Toad, but I'm not a domain expert in that direction so I don't know what the go-to's are these days.

Anecdotal: one of my teammates used AppDynamics to track down that our Oracle DBA didn't enable the fix for the LOB extent allocation bug (#6376915) in our 12c database, which manifested as an application performance issue and the DBA team insisted there was nothing wrong on the Oracle layer. I'm thus interested in what DBA's use to monitor so I can better monitor the databases I rely upon myself.

Re: Cisco Is Said to Have Offered $7B-Plus for DataDog

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Post by zenlikethat »

onion2k wrote: post #41
zenlikethat wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What else are you paying $7B for if not the people? If I’m an acquiring company, I’m not optimizing for creating a very wealthy team that will leave and create another company. I want that team to work for me.

What else are you paying $7B for if not the people? Access to customers. User data. To remove a competitor from the market. Patents. Because the CEOs bonus depends on market share. To enter a new regional market. There are lots of reasons to buy a company. Aquihiring the team is just one.

Revenue for Datadog is about $200 million ... "access to customers" isn't going to cut it for a $7,000,000,000 price tag.
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