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Elastic Big Data Platform at Datadog

Doug Daniels Doug Daniels | VP Engineering | Datadog

At Datadog, we collect almost a trillion metric data points per day from hosts, containers, services, and customers all over the world. We have built a highly elastic, cloud-based platform to power analytics, machine learning, and statistical analysis on this data at high scale.

In this talk, we will discuss the cloud-based platform we have built and how it differs from a traditional datacenter-based analytics stack. We will walk through the decisions we have made at each layer, including leveraging S3 for data storage; isolating job families on their own ephemeral, spot-instance-powered clusters; tailoring hardware to the job family; optimizing the development cycle with git-powered deployment, and more. We'll cover the pros and cons of these decisions vs a traditional stack in detail.

We'll also discuss the tooling we have built to manage this level of dynamism and make it simple for data scientists and engineers to use. Finally, we will end with recommendations for folks getting started with their own analytics platform in the cloud: tools, frameworks, and platforms you can build upon.

Doug Daniels
Doug Daniels
VP Engineering | Datadog

Doug Daniels is the director of engineering at Datadog. Previously, he was the CTO at Mortar Data, Inc. which handles production pipeline infrastructure, deployment, and monitoring, as well as CTO at Rooftop Collective, a top-shelf data and web architecture firm. Daniels also worked as a data integration architect and software developer, where he developed data integration platforms, designed websites, and introduced agile development practices to data integration projects.

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