As part of the flagship program theCUBE, John Furrier talked at the recently concluded Velocity Conference 2013 with Olivier Pomel, CEO of DataDog, about some of the hot topics in the industry.

DataDog is a Monitoring-as a-Service company, “connecting to all the tools, services, cloud providers, bringing all the data together and making it really easy for people – not only in Operations, but also in Development – to look at this data, alert on it, analyze it and collaborate.”

DevOps with Design

Metrics, Analytics, and Big Data are the hottest things in Furrier’s view, but Velocity is not an event focused on Big Data, but rather a place where Web and Dev Ops and UI professionals meet. There’s a lot of software development challenges around
DevOps with design. As other CUBE guests have said, not only we have to monitor the web, but the mobile apps as well. So monitoring is one of the hot trends here, and it’s not just monitoring the lifecycle of coding, but monitoring the system performance as well. That system is now integrated, you have DevOps with Design.

DataDog is about monitoring, analytics and collaboration. As Pomel put it, “our job is to make sure it’s super easy for everyone in Development and Operations to look at the data and to understand it.”

“The main problem is making sure everyone has the same understanding of the data,” said Pomel, and by everyone he meant Developers and people in Operations. DataDog becomes a dashboard for DevOps. Furrier asked who in the DevOps community is DataDog targeting, and whether is was a painkiller or an enabler. Pomel picked up on his joke and said that it begins with the need to solve a problem, as “everyone looks at the data and doesn’t understand what’s going on”, so it’s mainly about dealing with the “pain”.

Explaining the “enabler” part, Pomel said: “Once we deploy, we enable our customers to ship faster, to do more, to do things they didn’t know they could do, and, in bigger companies, to further their transition to Agile processing.”