Datadog’s $65M Bill and Why Developers Should Care

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An unspecified financial services firm was faced with the bill, which did not reoccur, according to https://www.linkedin.com/in/olivierpomel/, co-founder, CEO and Director at DataDog. Mark Ronald Murphy, an executive director and financial analyst with JPMorgan Chase’s research division, crunched the numbers and revealed that the upfront bill would have been about $65 million. https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-obstler-15a495/, chief financial officer at DataDog, said the company changed the billing frequency.

“We will get that bill at a smaller size than was billed last year in a more of a chunked up billing way.” He added that since becoming public, DataDog has pointed out when they have an unusual bill and that the problem isn’t common.

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