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The Datadog team deliver the annual Dash keynote. At Dash 2021, we announced new products and features that give your team even greater visibility into the health and performance of your code, databases, CI/CD pipelines, and more. Now, you can monitor network devices, get visibility into your services' golden signal metrics without touching a single line of code, and integrate third-party tools into our platform with Datadog Apps. We expanded RUM to include iOS error tracking, Session Replay, and Watchdog Insights. And we introduced Datadog Observability Pipelines, which run on your infrastructure and put you in control of your observability data, from how it’s processed to where it’s sent.

Identifying bottlenecks during times of high load is critical to building a scalable software platform. Stress testing is one way to simulate high load on a system and allows you to proactively capture potential bottlenecks before they impact customers. Once a solution is implemented to address the bottleneck, you need a way to measure success and find a new limit. See how HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) has developed a stress testing framework which heavily relies on Datadog’s custom metric capabilities in combination with some out of the box integrations to give HCP engineers a comprehensive view of their platform and how they used these insights to scale their concurrent data-plane provisioning by 300%.

When customer-impacting downtime happens, it’s crucial that responders are prepared and can resolve these issues as quickly as possible. Knowing the right tools to use, from wherever you are working from, will help to have a well-defined strategy in place to come together as a team, work the problem, and get to a solution quickly. In this roundtable discussion, PagerDuty and Datadog engineers chat about incident responses and how we use all the tools at our disposal to respond quickly and effectively.

Often when completing a migration project, you’re having your organisation straddle between two systems. You’re fighting habits and changing attitudes while also attempting to complete a high-risk operation. Every software team at one stage in their career will have to complete a migration. Whether it’s to improve scalability and performance, or transition between an on-prem to cloud solution, you’ll need a deep understanding of your current environment to create a strategy that minimises downtime for your team.

Monitoring CPU load and memory usage is common practice, but with serverless no action is required. In this video, we quickly explain that if your Cloud Run instances start hitting high CPU load, Google Cloud will automatically spin up new instances for you, and vice versa!

Kubernetes configurations are complex to manage across developers and operators. External tools like Helm, Kustomize cannot ensure environment-specific configurations and admission controllers provide a way to do this. Now, various tools have evolved over time that helps solve this problem - OPA Gatekeeper, Kyverno, Kubewarden and jsPolicy. In this talk during ContainerDays 2021, Saiyam Pathak from Civo goes through the need for a policy engine and discusses how each of the tools help along with the differences between them and where these are headed to.

Product Pricing Isn’t Hocus Pocus. . . Scott Weitzman sits down with Alex Barnes to discuss what exactly Revenue Growth Management is, how it works, and why now is the most important time to focus on consumer retention. As Scott learns, this is not just some magical system that makes prices, but rather something that allows CPG companies to understand their consumers better and help meet them at the shelves.