With thousands of companies using Datadog to track their infrastructure, we can see software trends emerging in real time. Today we're excited to share what we can see about true Docker adoption—no hype, just the facts. (more…)

A while back, things used to be easy. A personal computer or server comprised of hardware components bundled with an operating system installed on a hard drive and that was pretty much it. And then the cloud happened. Things got slightly more interestin... (more…)

If you’re building a Docker image that’s based on Conda, the resulting images can be huge. For example, later I will show how a simple image with just Python 3.8 and NumPy can be over 950MB! Large images waste bandwidth, disk, time, and CPU: how do you ma... (more…)

A few weeks ago we were alerted that Docker Swarm was using over 8GB of RAM. Our investigation led us to discover an unexpected factor that determines its memory usage. After a bit of graphing and math, we were able to locate the code behind this unexpect... (more…)

A few days ago we ran into the need to set up a new VPN (Virtual Private Network) server for our company, a method of remotely connecting a computer to a network over the Internet. This is commonly used for roadwarrior employees accessing the office netwo...