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Datadog
Company blog · datadoghq.com/blog · on HN as felixgesystemsprogramming
Datadog is the company blog at datadoghq.com, writing about systems and programming. Since 2011, 268 different Hacker News readers have linked it 512 times, most often “Husky, Datadog's Third-Generation Event Store”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Rarely recommended · 0 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
Most mentions are Datadog hiring posts. The blog is linked for engineering posts on Go performance, the io_uring-based glommio library, the Husky storage system, and muting monitors during planned downtime.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Husky, Datadog's Third-Generation Event Store11 people · 13 mentions · first linked 2022-05-17
- The State of Serverless9 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2020-02-03
- Glommio, a Thread-per-Core Crate for Rust and Linux (2020)8 people · 12 mentions · first linked 2020-11-27
- Cloud-Scale Monitoring7 people · 11 mentions · first linked 2014-12-30
- 8 surprising facts about real Docker adoption7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2015-10-28
- Datadog - interactive cloud based monitoring6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2011-07-11
- Announcing next-generation APM5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2016-09-21
- Trends in real world container use5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2020-11-22
- Reducing the size of Go binaries by up to 77%5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2026-02-24
- /jobs-engineering/4 people · 22 mentions · first linked 2017-02-01
What Hacker News says?
DataDog | https://www.datadoghq.com/ -----How Do I Apply----- Send me an email with your resume at kh@datadoghq.com -----Open Positions----- AWS Infrastructure Engineer (New York, Paris, Remote) -- https://www.datadoghq.com/careers/detail/?gh_jid=462315 Data Engineer (New York, Paris) -- https://www.datadoghq.com/careers/detail/?gh_jid=86665 Data Scientist (New York, Paris) -- https://www.datadoghq.com/careers/detai…
Comment linking /careers/detail/?gh_jid=169167
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2016)”Submitted How we tracked down a Go 1.24 memory regression as a story · 191 points
HN discussionThe glommio library from DataDog was specifically built around io_uring: https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/engineering/introducing-glomm...
Comment linking /blog/engineering/introducing-glommio/
on “How io_uring and eBPF Will Revolutionize Programming in Linux”Submitted Husky, Datadog's Third-Generation Event Store as a story · 191 points
HN discussionDatadog | New York, NYC, Paris | FULL TIME | ONSITE, REMOTE Datadog builds state of the art monitoring tools. If you can make thousands of machines work as one, love grinding 10% more performance out of a function, build amazing data visualizations or just love hacking, drop us a line. https://www.datadoghq.com/jobs-engineering/
Comment linking /jobs-engineering/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2017)”Submitted Scipio: A Thread-per-Core Crate for Rust and Linux as a story · 167 points
HN discussionDatadog | Software Engineers | ONSITE (NYC, Paris) and REMOTE | Full-time At Datadog, we collect, process, and visualize trillions of data points per day in a product that's by developers for developers. We build our own tsdb, distributed tracing tools, cutting edge visualizations, and more. We move fast and are growing fast. We're mostly Go, Python, and React, on AWS, and moving to k8s. We're looking for people who…
Comment linking /jobs-engineering/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2017)”Submitted Datadog releases Incident Management, Profiler, Error Tracking, and more as a story · 167 points
HN discussionDatadog | datadog.com | New York, NY, Paris Datadog builds awesome monitoring tools. We have tons of challenges and are looking for great build to help tackle them (processing millions of data points a second, integrating with hundreds of pieces of software, sifting anomalies from live data streams, building data visualizations, etc). Come and build great tools that are by developers for developers. https://www.data…
Comment linking /careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2016)”Submitted The State of AWS Security as a story · 131 points
HN discussionDatadog | Software Engineers | ONSITE (NYC, Paris) and REMOTE | Full-time Datadog is a monitoring and tracing service for your infra and services. We collect, process, and visualize trillions of data points per day in a product that's by developers for developers. We build our own tsdb, distributed tracing tools, cutting edge visualizations, and more. We move fast and are growing fast. We're mostly Go, Python, and R…
Comment linking /jobs-engineering/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2017)”Submitted Show HN: Pup, real-time app metrics with Statsd as a story · 107 points
HN discussionDataDog | https://www.datadoghq.com/ -----How Do I Apply----- Send me an email with your resume at kh@datadoghq.com -----Open Positions----- AWS Infrastructure Engineer (New York, Paris, Remote) -- https://www.datadoghq.com/careers/detail/?gh_jid=462315 Data Engineer (New York, Paris) -- https://www.datadoghq.com/careers/detail/?gh_jid=86665 Data Scientist (New York, Paris) -- https://www.datadoghq.com/careers/detai…
Comment linking /careers/detail/?gh_jid=169167
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2016)”Submitted 8 surprising facts about real Docker adoption as a story · 48 points
HN discussionDatadog | Software Engineers | ONSITE (Boston, New York City, Paris) and REMOTE | Full-time Datadog is a monitoring and tracing service for your infrastructure and services. We build our own tsdb, distributed tracing tools, cutting edge visualizations, and more. We love shipping great experiences for customers just like us and are growing fast! We're mostly Go, Python, and React, on AWS, and moving to k8s. We're loo…
Comment linking /jobs-engineering/?gh_src=ywmco2h41
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2018)”Submitted Husky: Efficient Compaction at Datadog Scale as a story · 30 points
HN discussionDatadog | Software Engineers | ONSITE (NYC, Paris) and REMOTE | Full-time Datadog is a monitoring and tracing service for your infra and services. We collect, process, and visualize trillions of data points per day in a product that's by developers for developers. We build our own tsdb, distributed tracing tools, cutting edge visualizations, and more. We move fast and are growing fast! We're mostly Go, Python, and R…
Comment linking /jobs-engineering/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2017)”Submitted Toto: A State-of-the-Art Time Series Foundation Model by Datadog as a story · 23 points
HN discussionDatadog | Software Engineers | ONSITE (Boston, New York City, Paris) and REMOTE | Full-time Datadog is a monitoring and tracing service for your infrastructure and services. We build our own tsdb, distributed tracing tools, cutting edge visualizations, and more. We love shipping great experiences for customers just like us and are growing fast! We're mostly Go, Python, and React, on AWS, and moving to k8s. We're loo…
Comment linking /jobs-engineering/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2018)”Submitted Piecewise regression without the pain (open-source code) as a story · 22 points
HN discussionDatadog is hiring in NYC, Paris, and remote https://www.datadoghq.com/careers/ Engineering (almost 40 positions open): https://www.datadoghq.com/jobs-engineering/ Marketing: https://www.datadoghq.com/jobs-marketing/ Sales: https://www.datadoghq.com/jobs-sales/ General & admin: https://www.datadoghq.com/jobs-general-administrative/
Comment linking /jobs-general-administrative/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2017)”Submitted Announcing next-generation APM as a story · 21 points
HN discussionDatadog | Software Engineers | ONSITE (Boston, Lisbon, Madrid, NYC, Paris, Tel Aviv) | Full-time Datadog is a monitoring, tracing, logs system, and more, for your infrastructure and services. We build our own tsdb, event store [1][2], distributed tracing tools, cutting edge visualizations, and more. We love shipping great experiences for customers just like us and are growing fast! We write a lot of Go, Java, Python…
Comment linking /blog/engineering/husky-deep-dive
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2024)”Submitted How to monitor NGINX as a story · 18 points
HN discussionDatadog | Software Engineers | ONSITE (Boston, NYC, Paris) and REMOTE | Full-time Datadog is a monitoring, tracing, and logs system for your infrastructure and services. We build our own tsdb, distributed tracing tools, cutting edge visualizations, and more. We love shipping great experiences for customers just like us and are growing fast! We're mostly Go, Python, and React, on AWS, and moving to k8s. We're looking…
Comment linking /jobs-engineering/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2018)”Submitted Datadog acquires Quickwit as a story · 17 points
HN discussionDatadog | Software Engineers | ONSITE (Boston, NYC, Paris) and REMOTE | Full-time Datadog is a monitoring, tracing, and logs system for your infrastructure and services. We build our own tsdb, distributed tracing tools, cutting edge visualizations, and more. We love shipping great experiences for customers just like us and are growing fast! We write Go, Python, Java, and React, run on AWS, and are moving to k8s. We'…
Comment linking /jobs-engineering/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2018)”Submitted Building Highly Reliable Data Pipelines at Datadog as a story · 16 points
HN discussionRelevant: https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/go-performance-tales/
Comment linking /blog/go-performance-tales/
on “Program your next server in Go”Submitted Beyond Kolmogorov-Smirnov as a story · 16 points
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