> There are some important million-person apps, but most of them just destroy civil society, melt our brains, and arrange chauffeurs for individual cheeseburgers.
All the cool technical stuff aside - this, for me, was the standout line of the article
> Two things, however, were consistently true throughout our usage. First, our Datadog bills were steep, roughly 2-3x of what we would otherwise expect to pay for equivalent telemetry storage and retention. Second, despite the richness of the platform, we rarely used Datadog for anything beyond being a reliable system of record for logs, metrics, and traces. We were paying for workflows we almost never touched.
This paragraph from the article makes it clear otherwise.