I've definitely seen a lot of enterprise buyers change their mind almost on a monthly basis in terms of what they view as the primary components of the stack that they're using. So I would start saying it's extremely hard to know what's going to stick in the end. The one thing that's been the most surprising was the speed at which the open source ecosystem has been innovating and building better and better models. Nobody has quite caught up to open AI yet in terms of the frontier model, the maximum level performance you can get.
Olivier Pomel, co-founder and CEO of Datadog, the leading observability company, discusses the company’s founding story, early product sequencing, platform strategy, and acquisitions. Olivier also shares his thoughts on their more recent expansion into security, and why he’s bullish on the potential for AI in DevOps.
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Show Notes:
[00:10] - DevOps and AI Potential
[06:54] - Datadog and Generative AI
[20:40] - Datadog's Acquisition and Expansion Strategy
[31:46] - LLMs in Automation and Precision
[42:35] - Datadog's Customer Value and Growth