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A cryptocurrency company had a $65M bill, per Datadog’s Q1 earnings call

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Re: A cryptocurrency company had a $65M bill, per Datadog’s Q1 earnings call

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Post by Sohcahtoa82 »

legohead wrote: post #62

Datadog prices are out of this world. I assumed their front facing prices were for the lone dev, so when I reached out as a company looking to integrate multiple of their products I expected a deal, and got very little compromise. I told them up front they were going to have to cut prices by 90% for us to consider them -- no budge. And they are pretty belligerent salesman, not wanting to leave me alone. After a while…

> Datadog prices are out of this world.

I was never sure of what exactly Datadog did, so I looked at their pricing. At first, I thought "$23/month/host isn't THAT bad...", then notice that was only for one product.

If you used their full suite, those costs could REALLY add up.

Re: A cryptocurrency company had a $65M bill, per Datadog’s Q1 earnings call

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Post by oh_sigh »

tcas wrote: post #94
bunnyfoofoo wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Their sales team is a nightmare, I had to block them on personal and company email.

Just wait until they find your personal cell phone number and try to force you into scheduling a "time that works" on the calendar.

Just keep scheduling a time that works, and then don't show up.

Re: A cryptocurrency company had a $65M bill, per Datadog’s Q1 earnings call

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Post by mtlmtlmtlmtl »

oh_sigh wrote: post #112
tcas wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just wait until they find your personal cell phone number and try to force you into scheduling a "time that works" on the calendar.

Just keep scheduling a time that works, and then don't show up.

Man I bet you could write a really dumb script that automates it too.

Re: A cryptocurrency company had a $65M bill, per Datadog’s Q1 earnings call

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Post by petersellers »

rocmcd wrote: post #103
ren_engineer wrote: post #71

OpenTelemetry is going to be an existential threat to DataDog and other companies that effectively rely on vendor lock-in to exploit customers. Not sure how companies rationalize these types of services at scale when there are so many open source options to run for a fraction of the cost. You could hire 100+ engineers and still save money compared to a 65M bill https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34540419

OpenTelemetry (or OTel) is in no way an existential threat to DataDog. Primarily because OTel is simply the substrate/protocol by which data is collected from your apps/systems. DD does _a lot_ more than what OTel provides (RUM, SIEM, synthetics, on-call, dashboarding, anomaly detection, and much much more). If anything it's an existential threat to the more legacy vendors that aren't equipped to provide an OTel inge…

> OTel _does_ prevent lock-in on the agent side (making it easier to switch vendors) with open source components and consistent schemas, but OTel doesn't enable you to do anything that you couldn't do before with a specific vendor

This is exactly the reason why we are moving away from NewRelic's SDK to an OpenTelemetry SDK (even though we are still using NewRelic to ingest everything). If (more like when) we decide to switch vendors, it will be much easier to do so.

Re: A cryptocurrency company had a $65M bill, per Datadog’s Q1 earnings call

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Post by torbTurret »

nicenewtemp84 wrote: post #100
bena wrote: post #84

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Ive worked in sales for over 10 years. Incel is a weird insult for salespeople, as I've never met a group of people that sleeps around more than salespeople. I spent years selling cars even, and if you bring a gf or wife you're having trouble with to go car shopping... Odds of her later sleeping with the car salesman are not zero to put it mildly.

Nowadays, incel is synonymous with the Andrew Tate “top g”/alpha sex obsession. Backwards? Definitely, but more symbolic of the arrested development/lack of maturity than the lack of sex.

Sleeping with others’ significant others, or actively trying to/bragging about it is a perfect example. Low-class behavior that will get you props from low-class folks.

Re: A cryptocurrency company had a $65M bill, per Datadog’s Q1 earnings call

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Post by thechao »

dimatura wrote: post #104
tcas wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just wait until they find your personal cell phone number and try to force you into scheduling a "time that works" on the calendar.

Just wait until they find your wife's phone number. (OK, this wasn't datadog, but some similarly aggressive headhunting agency went from calling me to calling my wife - who is in no way affiliated with my company - to ask her if she could tell me about how they could help me in hiring, yadda yadda.)

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Re: A cryptocurrency company had a $65M bill, per Datadog’s Q1 earnings call

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Post by neilv »

dimatura wrote: post #104
tcas wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just wait until they find your personal cell phone number and try to force you into scheduling a "time that works" on the calendar.

Just wait until they find your wife's phone number. (OK, this wasn't datadog, but some similarly aggressive headhunting agency went from calling me to calling my wife - who is in no way affiliated with my company - to ask her if she could tell me about how they could help me in hiring, yadda yadda.)

I would contact the police about that.

Re: A cryptocurrency company had a $65M bill, per Datadog’s Q1 earnings call

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Post by vasco »

ren_engineer wrote: post #71

OpenTelemetry is going to be an existential threat to DataDog and other companies that effectively rely on vendor lock-in to exploit customers. Not sure how companies rationalize these types of services at scale when there are so many open source options to run for a fraction of the cost. You could hire 100+ engineers and still save money compared to a 65M bill https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34540419

Presumably these companies have higher ROI projects to do with 100 engineers than reimplementing and maintaining an in-house datadog alternative.
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