Keynote

Datadog has always been driven by a broader vision of helping teams understand and operate complex systems. In this session, you’ll hear from Yanbing Li, Chief Product Officer, and Shri Subramanian, Group Product Manager, as they share the latest updates across the Datadog product suite and discuss how that vision continues to shape the platform’s evolution and support the next generation of AI-driven applications.

Join us for a first look at how Datadog enables teams to innovate with speed and confidence in highly regulated markets through AI-powered observability and security. Explore expanded agentic capabilities and new security and compliance features designed to help organizations ship safely and scale distributed systems globally.

When stakeholders push for faster growth (new markets, new features, newly modernized stack) your engineering model has to change too. At FitnessPassport, the shift from offshore waterfall delivery to an in-house team meant rebuilding not just services, but confidence: legacy systems with weak logging and little visibility made it hard to know whether changes were working and impossible to spot issues before users did. In this talk, Director of Engineering Rob Mitchell will share how FitnessPassport adopted Datadog and used structured logs, metrics, and traces to tighten feedback loops. The team also leaned on Real User Monitoring (RUM) to see customer journeys and connect performance regressions to specific releases and services. You’ll see how correlating signals from backend services through frontend user experience can quickly take you from “something feels off” to actionable answers. You’ll leave with a practical playbook for modernizing a mixed legacy/service architecture while using observability to move from “react and explain” to “detect and fix” before anyone else can even notice.

When a small platform team owns a wide, interconnected system, the hardest problem is not outages. It is the quiet stress of uncertainty. Who owns this service? Is it safe to change? What will break if I deploy? At MECCA, the Platform Enablement team supports 12 domains across 15 systems, many inherited, business critical, and tightly coupled to vendor software. Through close collaboration between this team and MECCA’s Cloud & Platform team, observability best practices have been embedded across the entire stack and have turned uncertainty into confidence.

In this talk, we share how Datadog helped turn that uncertainty into confidence through a self-documenting software catalog, proactive monitoring, and end-to-end visibility. You will see how a newly formed team was able to contribute safely to large codebases, spot issues earlier, and make changes with fewer high-impact incidents. Attendees will leave with practical ways to use observability to reduce cognitive load, clarify ownership, and help teams move faster without fear as their platforms grow.