Video and slides synchronized, mp3 and slide download available at URL http://bit.ly/2l2Rr6L. Doug Daniels discusses the cloud-based platform they have built at DataDog and how it differs from a traditional datacenter-based analytics stack. He walks through the decisions they have made at each layer, covers the pros and cons of these decisions and discusses the tooling they have built. Filmed at qconsf.com. Doug Daniels is a Director of Engineering at Datadog, where he works on high-scale data systems for monitoring, data science, and analytics. Prior to joining Datadog, he was CTO at Mortar Data and an architect and developer at Wireless Generation, where he designed data systems to serve more than 4 million students in 49 states.