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How we built a real-world evaluation platform for autonomous SRE agents at scale

How we built a real-world evaluation platform for autonomous SRE agents at scale

Find out how we built a scalable evaluation platform for Datadog's Bits AI SRE agent that replays real incidents, detects regressions, and measures agent performance across production scenarios.

When upserts don't update but still write: Debugging Postgres performance at scale

When upserts don't update but still write: Debugging Postgres performance at scale

When a high-volume upsert doubled disk writes, Datadog engineers traced the issue to Postgres WAL behavior and rewrote the query to eliminate hidden costs.

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When an AI agent came knocking: Catching malicious contributions in Datadog’s open source repos

When an AI agent came knocking: Catching malicious contributions in Datadog’s open source repos

Learn how Datadog detected and resolved issues from hackerbot-claw, an AI-powered automated attack campaign.

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How we built a real-world evaluation platform for autonomous SRE agents at scale

How we built a real-world evaluation platform for autonomous SRE agents at scale

When upserts don't update but still write: Debugging Postgres performance at scale

When upserts don't update but still write: Debugging Postgres performance at scale

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When an AI agent came knocking: Catching malicious contributions in Datadog’s open source repos

When an AI agent came knocking: Catching malicious contributions in Datadog’s open source repos

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Designing MCP tools for agents: Lessons from building Datadog's MCP server

Designing MCP tools for agents: Lessons from building Datadog's MCP server

How we reduced the size of our Agent Go binaries by up to 77%

How we reduced the size of our Agent Go binaries by up to 77%

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Hardening eBPF for runtime security: Lessons from Datadog Workload Protection

Hardening eBPF for runtime security: Lessons from Datadog Workload Protection

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Scaling real-time file monitoring with eBPF: How we filtered billions of kernel events per minute

Scaling real-time file monitoring with eBPF: How we filtered billions of kernel events per minute

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Replication redefined: How we built a low-latency, multi-tenant data replication platform

Replication redefined: How we built a low-latency, multi-tenant data replication platform

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