As a B2B (business-to-business) cloud software provider, Datadog Inc (NASDAQ: DDOG) may not be a household name to non-developers and IT engineers. However, it definitely caught my attention. The monitoring and analytics platform for developers, IT operations, and business users is one of the fastest-growing software companies and has some of the best-in-class metrics to boot. Despite less than a year as a public company, Datadog’s share price is already double from its first trading day in September 2019. In this article, I share my thoughts on Datadog. A huge market opportunity Companies that house their data in the cloud can end up with a complex web of data and information that is difficult to monitor. This is where Datadog’s platform can help. It provides monitoring services across public cloud, private cloud, on-premise, and multi-cloud hybrid environments. Datadog estimates that the IT Operations Management market will represent a US$37 billion market opportunity in 2023, with the company’s services addressing US$35 billion of that....