I wonder how much that no-expense-spared, money-is-no-object attitude to buying SaaS impacts an engineers ability to make sensible decisions around infra and architecture. Coinbase might have been fine blowing 65 mil but take that approach to a new startup and you could trivially eat up a significant amount of runway with it.
I won’t single out Datadog on this because the exact same thing happens with cloud spend, and it’s very literally burning money.
I won’t single out Datadog on this because the exact same thing happens with cloud spend, and it’s very literally burning money.