Datadog Is the New Oracle

8 points by luckyou 1 year ago | 6 comments

mooreds 1 year ago |

Says the blog of a company selling "An open-source observability platform built for simplicity."

The tension of expertise and self-interest is a tough one (I live this every day). If you know enough to have a good opinion, you are probably either:

   * a hobbyist fitting learning into the edges of the day
   * an experienced person who is too busy to write up your opinions
   * someone with a vested interest, selling something

So hard as an outsider to determine who to trust and how far to trust them.

luckyou 1 year ago | |

Thank you for your comment. You might be right, but this post is written by someone who has been working in open source for 20 years, not just a product owner who dislikes a competitor. I believe his opinion is based on his experience and can be taken into consideration.

mooreds 1 year ago | | |

The OP definitely has credentials in open source but is also a co-founder of coroot. Like I said, he's got both expertise and a vested interest.

That said, the post seems pretty innocuous on a close read: Datadog is expensive, observability is important, there are some OSS competitors trying to offer a complete suite, this is all similar to what happened in databases in the early 2000s.

Hard to argue with any of that.

thebruce87m 1 year ago |

Datadog is one of the companies that somehow get a hold of your company email address and spam everyone there with email subjects like “Re: meeting next week”. Instant ick.

HelloNurse 1 year ago |

Expensive bills and open source alternatives are not enough to make anyone "the new Oracle", particularly not your competitors.

luckyou 1 year ago | |

Correct! Anyone can become the new Oracle based on their market vendor lock strategy.