"The mainframe lasted for a while, but as IT got decentralized, the physical machine became the fundamental unit that people used, in order to think about their infrastructure and their architecture — having the host as the center of the universe," says Alexis Lê-Quôc, CTO and Co-Founder of Datadog, during this conversation with Alex Williams and co-host Donnie Berkholz of RedMonk about monitoring distributed architecture.

Alexis continues, "You wouldn't think in terms of, 'they're just apps that run somewhere, and someone's taking care of the ether in which they run.' It's really, 'it's the machine — it's there — I can see it,' or, 'it's in the data center next door.' I clearly map an application to a machine to the point where, when I say 'the database,' I mean 'the application' but I also mean 'the machine that runs the database.'"

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