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Date	Post	Topic	When
Sep 1	Making Rust observability reliable at scale with OpenTelemetry Sep 1 · Reliability and performance	Reliability and performance	3w ago
Aug 19	20× the CI traffic without getting slower: How we rebuilt Git serving at Datadog Aug 19 · Developer tools	Developer tools	5w ago
Aug 11	How we improved APM Java startup by encoding a prefix trie as a JVM constant Aug 11 · Developer tools	Developer tools	6w ago
Jul 22	Unbiased Java CPU profiling with JFR in JDK 25 Jul 22 · Developer tools	Developer tools	9w ago
Jul 1	How we measure data completeness at scale Jul 1 · Reliability and performance	Reliability and performance	3mo ago
Jun 23	How we migrated a live routing system using AI-assisted refactoring Jun 23 · Developer tools	Developer tools	3mo ago
Jun 4	When failover isn’t safe: Building high-availability PostgreSQL on Kubernetes Jun 4 · Databases	Databases	4mo ago
Jun 2	From single pull requests to full software packages: Detecting malicious code at scale Jun 2 · Reliability and performance	Reliability and performance	4mo ago
Apr 21	Steganography at scale: Embedding share URLs in Datadog widget screenshots Apr 21 · Reliability and performance	Reliability and performance	5mo ago
Apr 7	How we built a real-world evaluation platform for autonomous SRE agents at scale Apr 7 · Reliability and performance	Reliability and performance	6mo ago
Mar 23	When upserts don’t update but still write: Debugging Postgres performance at scale Mar 23 · Reliability and performance	Reliability and performance	6mo ago
Mar 9	When an AI agent came knocking: Catching malicious contributions in Datadog’s open source repos Mar 9 · AI and agents	AI and agents	7mo ago
Mar 4	Designing MCP tools for agents: Lessons from building Datadog’s MCP server Mar 4 · AI and agents	AI and agents	7mo ago
Feb 18	How we reduced the size of our Agent Go binaries by up to 77% Feb 18 · AI and agents	AI and agents	7mo ago
Jan 7	Hardening eBPF for runtime security: Lessons from Datadog Workload Protection Jan 7 · Infrastructure	Infrastructure	9mo ago
Nov 18, 2025	Scaling real-time file monitoring with eBPF: How we filtered billions of kernel events per minute Nov 18, 2025 · Infrastructure	Infrastructure	10mo ago
Nov 4, 2025	Replication redefined: How we built a low-latency, multi-tenant data replication platform Nov 4, 2025 · Databases	Databases	11mo ago
Oct 21, 2025	Detecting malicious pull requests at scale with LLMs Oct 21, 2025 · AI and agents	AI and agents	11mo ago
Oct 15, 2025	Failure is inevitable: Learning from a large outage, and building for reliability in depth at Datadog Oct 15, 2025 · Reliability and performance	Reliability and performance	11mo ago
Oct 1, 2025	Inside Husky’s query engine: Real-time access to 100 trillion events Oct 1, 2025 · Databases	Databases	12mo ago
Sep 18, 2025	From hand-tuned Go to self-optimizing code: Building BitsEvolve Sep 18, 2025 · Reliability and performance	Reliability and performance	12mo ago
Aug 12, 2025	Scaling down to speed up: How we improved efficiency of live process metrics by 100x Aug 12, 2025 · Reliability and performance	Reliability and performance	13mo ago
Aug 4, 2025	Evolving our real-time timeseries storage again: Built in Rust for performance at scale Aug 4, 2025 · Reliability and performance	Reliability and performance	14mo ago
Jul 17, 2025	How Go 1.24’s Swiss Tables saved us hundreds of gigabytes Jul 17, 2025 · Reliability and performance	Reliability and performance	14mo ago
Jul 17, 2025	How we tracked down a Go 1.24 memory regression across hundreds of pods Jul 17, 2025 · Reliability and performance	Reliability and performance	14mo ago

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