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From hand-tuned Go to self-optimizing code: Building BitsEvolve

From hand-tuned Go to self-optimizing code: Building BitsEvolve

Learn how we turned hot-path optimizations into a system for continuous, AI-assisted performance improvements and saved thousands of cores in the process.

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Scaling down to speed up: How we improved efficiency of live process metrics by 100x

Scaling down to speed up: How we improved efficiency of live process metrics by 100x

We re-architected the real-time data pipeline for Datadog’s Processes and Containers views—cutting traffic by 100x and infrastructure use by 98%. This post explores the system challenges, architectural changes, and their impact.

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Evolving our real-time timeseries storage again: Built in Rust for performance at scale

Evolving our real-time timeseries storage again: Built in Rust for performance at scale

Discover how we reengineered our metrics storage engine for massive scale with Rust, a shard-per-core model, and real-time performance.

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From hand-tuned Go to self-optimizing code: Building BitsEvolve

From hand-tuned Go to self-optimizing code: Building BitsEvolve

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Scaling down to speed up: How we improved efficiency of live process metrics by 100x

Scaling down to speed up: How we improved efficiency of live process metrics by 100x

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Evolving our real-time timeseries storage again: Built in Rust for performance at scale

Evolving our real-time timeseries storage again: Built in Rust for performance at scale

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How we tracked down a Go 1.24 memory regression across hundreds of pods

How we tracked down a Go 1.24 memory regression across hundreds of pods

How Go 1.24's Swiss Tables saved us hundreds of gigabytes

How Go 1.24's Swiss Tables saved us hundreds of gigabytes

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How we built a real-time, client-side noise suppression library without server dependencies

How we built a real-time, client-side noise suppression library without server dependencies

How we built reliable log delivery to thousands of unpredictable endpoints

How we built reliable log delivery to thousands of unpredictable endpoints

How we scaled fast, reliable configuration distribution to thousands of workload containers

How we scaled fast, reliable configuration distribution to thousands of workload containers

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