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AWS Compute Optimizer

— 2020-2021 —
Provides intelligent cloud resource optimization recommendations based on workload profiles and utilization history.

Datadog Service Catalog

— 2022-present —
A central hub that connects observability data and tribal knowledge to unlock developer productivity and streamline incident response. 

// MY ROLE

I was hired to work on the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) product at Datadog. Initially building a feature that brings in crucial operation context like the current on-call engineers and emergency runbooks to real-time application, I expanded the project into a standalone, platform-wide offering. I bought the product from hypothesis, initial prototypes, customer validation, GTM, and continuous integrations that makes it an integral part of the Datadog experience. 

// MY ROLE

I was hired to work on the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) product at Datadog. Initially building a feature that brings in crucial operation context like the current on-call engineers and emergency runbooks to real-time application, I expanded the project into a standalone, platform-wide offering. I bought the product from hypothesis, initial prototypes, customer validation, GTM, and continuous integrations that makes it an integral part of the Datadog experience. 

// PRODUCT

Service catalogs are a key component of your organization’s internal development resources. They provide platform administrators, service owners, DevOps personnel, and other stakeholders with a “one-stop shop” for insights about how teams are running their services. By extensively documenting and centralizing knowledge about your services, a service catalog can help you implement fine-grained access control, audit service health, find observability gaps, and plan upgrades—without running into snags where team members can’t access the information they need and don’t know who to call.

https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/service-ownership-best-practices-datadog/

https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/service-catalog-schema-v3/

// EVOLUTION

Initially, the goal is to simply connect critical operation details to the real-time observability data. Over time, the platform evolved into a connective tissue for a great number of products. 

The product also generated a great deal of community interest. Mike Stemle contributed a GitHub Action ‘Datadog Service Catalog Metadata Provider’

 https://github.com/marketplace/actions/datadog-service-catalog-metadata-provider)

to expand the metadata ingestion mechanism. He talks more about why he made such contribution in a blog post here (https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/github-actions-service-catalog/

// CONTACT ME

Brooke Chen

NYC

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