New Trends in Serverless

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DESCRIPTION: Stephen Pinkerton (@spnktn, Product Manager @datadoghq) talks about the latest trends that Datadog has observed from monitoring serverless applications in the public cloud, adoption rates, as well as how serverless is deployed along with containers. 

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• Datadog's State of Serverless Report
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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show; Tell us about your background, as you’ve worked for a number of interesting companies prior to Datadog. 

Topic 2 - Datadog recently released a report about trends in serverless usage. Before we dive into some of the highlights and insights, tell us about the scope of the report. 

• Are you able to tell anything about the types of companies being monitored? (industries, size of company, etc.)

Topic 3 - Highlights from the State of Serverless report

• The majority of functions are still fairly small, and don’t run very long (small memory footprint). 
• Node.js and Python are the leading languages/frameworks being used (almost 90%)
• Nearly half of EC2 users have adopted Lambda
• Early adopters of Containers (ECS) have adopted Lambda - 80%+
• Discuss which event-driven data sources are the most frequently used

Topic 4 - As you’re analyzing this usage data, what are some of the things you’re thinking about as a Product Manager for functionality that you can provide to help better monitor these rapidly changing environments?

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