The Datadog team attended notable sessions at Velocity and DevOpsDays, two prominent WebOps/DevOps events in Silicon Valley. At Velocity, Brendan Gregg presented "Stop the Guessing: Performance Methodologies for Production Systems," emphasizing the importance of clear communication, shared expectations, and a three-pronged approach to performance monitoring: workload characterization, USE (Utilization, Saturation, Errors), and thread-state analysis. Adam Lazur from Facebook discussed their billion-user load balancer architecture, which utilizes dynamic DNS configuration with Cartographer, a continuous provisioning engine. Additionally, J. Paul Reede shared lessons learned from the US national airspace system, highlighting the need for clear communication and avoiding blind faith in automation to address complexity. The Datadog team is looking forward to presenting at Velocity later this year in New York and continuing to sponsor DevOpsDays worldwide.