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How Two French Engineers In New York Built The Company That Monitors The Entire Cloud

How Two French Engineers In New York Built The Company That Monitors The Entire Cloud

Datadog CEO Olivier Pomel shares his journey, emphasizing the company's evolution from a DevOps insight to a public tech giant. He discusses the resilience required to overcome early rejections, his hands-on leadership style focused on raw customer feedback, and how Datadog is rapidly adapting to the AI revolution by prioritizing automation and faster iteration in product development and internal processes. Pomel also offers candid advice on co-founder relationships and the critical importance of moving quickly in both hiring and firing.

Has AI Finally Cracked Time Series Forecasting?

Has AI Finally Cracked Time Series Forecasting?

Ameet Talwalkar, CMU professor and Datadog's Chief Scientist, traces the journey of time series foundation models from early skepticism to their current impact. He details Datadog's Toto V1 and V2, highlighting breakthroughs in zero-shot performance, scaling, and the crucial role of data mix. The discussion extends to the vision of 'world models' for observability, integrating diverse data for self-healing software systems, and concludes with insights on open-weights models and AI's transformative effect on computer science and academic research.