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It's one of the most prominent vendors in the tech space. It's pretty safe to assume people know who Datadog is on a software forum. Not always well loved, but

by seneca 4y ago

It's one of the most prominent vendors in the tech space. It's pretty safe to assume people know who Datadog is on a software forum. Not always well loved, but definitely well known.

happytoexplain 4y ago
Absolutely not. In 20 years I've heard the name twice: Once six weeks ago when they emailed me to try to get my team to use their tools (which they failed to describe to me, so I declined), and a second time just now on HN. I don't know who they are or what they do. I asked my coworkers - they didn't know either. "Everybody knows about x" where x is any proper noun in the software space is frequently a bad bet. The software world is exceedingly large, and people are familiar with chunks of it.
- seneca 4y ago
  There are always people who are out of touch with the current market (and I don't mean that condescendingly. There's not much value in knowing these things for many people in the space). That doesn't mean things they aren't aware of aren't well known. Of course not everyone knows, but a critical mass certainly does such that it's not really necessary to introduce the company every time it's discussed.
- ThePadawan 4y ago
  > Absolutely not. In 20 years I've heard the name twice: Once six weeks ago when they emailed me to try to get my team to use their tools (which they failed to describe to me, so I declined), and a second time just now on HN. I want to second this - today is the second time I heard of them. The first was a job offer on LinkedIn that also failed to describe what Datadog did. It did talk a lot about how it was enterprise scale and important, though. I declined to look further into it.
- matai_kolila 4y ago
  ...I'm really struggling to understand why you can't/won't figure out what DataDog does the same way any of us figures out what anything does; by Googling it. You asked your coworkers! That demonstrates an interest, why wouldn't you ask Google?
- kyawzazaw 4y ago
  Well, it was only founded in 2010. So it's been less than 12 years in existence. And one of the better known vendors in monitoring services.
aidenn0 4y ago
I know who they are only because I googled them while reading this thread. There are a lot of software developers who don't deploy software via the cloud, so would have zero use for "Cloud Monitoring as a service"
midislack 4y ago
Never heard of it, if you're not a webshitter there's about a 0% chance you'd ever know who or what it is.
anigbrowl 4y ago
Honestly the first time I've ever heard of them.

by seneca 4y ago

It's one of the most prominent vendors in the tech space. It's pretty safe to assume people know who Datadog is on a software forum. Not always well loved, but definitely well known.

happytoexplain 4y ago

Absolutely not. In 20 years I've heard the name twice: Once six weeks ago when they emailed me to try to get my team to use their tools (which they failed to describe to me, so I declined), and a second time just now on HN. I don't know who they are or what they do. I asked my coworkers - they didn't know either. "Everybody knows about x" where x is any proper noun in the software space is frequently a bad bet. The software world is exceedingly large, and people are familiar with chunks of it.

seneca 4y ago
There are always people who are out of touch with the current market (and I don't mean that condescendingly. There's not much value in knowing these things for many people in the space). That doesn't mean things they aren't aware of aren't well known. Of course not everyone knows, but a critical mass certainly does such that it's not really necessary to introduce the company every time it's discussed.
ThePadawan 4y ago
> Absolutely not. In 20 years I've heard the name twice: Once six weeks ago when they emailed me to try to get my team to use their tools (which they failed to describe to me, so I declined), and a second time just now on HN. I want to second this - today is the second time I heard of them. The first was a job offer on LinkedIn that also failed to describe what Datadog did. It did talk a lot about how it was enterprise scale and important, though. I declined to look further into it.
matai_kolila 4y ago
...I'm really struggling to understand why you can't/won't figure out what DataDog does the same way any of us figures out what anything does; by Googling it. You asked your coworkers! That demonstrates an interest, why wouldn't you ask Google?
kyawzazaw 4y ago
Well, it was only founded in 2010. So it's been less than 12 years in existence. And one of the better known vendors in monitoring services.

aidenn0 4y ago

I know who they are only because I googled them while reading this thread. There are a lot of software developers who don't deploy software via the cloud, so would have zero use for "Cloud Monitoring as a service"

midislack 4y ago

Never heard of it, if you're not a webshitter there's about a 0% chance you'd ever know who or what it is.

anigbrowl 4y ago

Honestly the first time I've ever heard of them.