There's been a lot of chatter about this lately here, on Reddit, and on X. Since I have a background in both FinOps and O11y, this is my best vendor neutral attempt at breaking down the reasons that Datadog is so expensive. DISCLOSURE: I work for a DDOG competitor.
The battery backups (called uninterruptible power supplies) are only meant to bridge the gap between the power going out and the generator turning on, which is a few minutes. Did they say power was the issue this time? I suspect it’s actually something else (ahem network)
Kenji is the best! Highly recommend his cookbook, The Food Lab. Several Kenji recipes are staples in our house. Kenji even convinced me that you can make a delicious quesadilla without cheese! https://www.seriouseats.com/cheese-free-sweet-potato-quesadi...
That article references the explosion at 'The Planet' in 2008, I got caught up in that, that wasn't fun at all. Fortunately we had good off-site backups.
I forgot about that! Glad you came out ok in The Planet explosion, I remember that, it was insane. Fun fact: IBM now owns The Planet’s assets via Softlayer.
By the way, we also were hit in 2003 when a transformer exploded.
This may be a hint that you don't want to colocate where I stuff my machines ;)
EV1 was pretty reliable right up to the point that it wasn't. Taught me some good lessons about multi-DC availability. Some of which were recently re-learned by the folks at OVH.
