🛣️👋 ON TOUR - HELLO ZURICH: DASH26 Recap | Deep-dive: memory profiling
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This is Datadog User Group ON TOUR: for the first time, we'll be presenting an event in Switzerland, proudly hosted by TWINT.
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All talks will be presented in English, to ensure that as many people as possible can participate and engage at this event.
If you want to attend, please RSVP to secure your spot - this will make organizing easier. Thank you so much ♥️
Location: Beethowenstrasse 48, 8002 Zurich, Switzerland
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🏠 18:00 - Arrival: Networking, Drinks & Snacks (30 min.)
Grab yourself snacks & drinks and say hello to everybody else!
📅 18:30 - Datadog DASH '26 Recap
🎙️Speaker: Tobias Oka, Enterprise Sales Engineer @ Datadog / Marcel Drechsler, Product Owner @ andsafe
This years annual DASH conference from Datadog was almost all about two things: Datadog for AI and AI for Datadog. Expect a comprehensive hour full of the most exciting announcements including demos, where we will also cover topics outside of AI.
☕ 19:30 - Break (15 min.)
📅 19:45 - Where Did My Memory Go? Bringing Native Memory Profiling to OpenTelemetry (30 min.)
🎙️Speaker: Scott Gerring, Senior Technical Advocate @ Datadog
Modern profiling has moved beyond occasional CPU snapshots toward continuously showing how applications use resources. Memory can still be a major blind spot: profilers for languages such as Python or Java often cannot see memory used inside the native libraries they call, while languages without built-in profilers may offer no detail at all. In this talk, we’ll show how, in collaboration with the OpenTelemetry community, we are working on extending the OpenTelemetry eBPF profiler to reveal which code paths are responsible for native memory usage. We’ll follow a memory event through the profiler into Datadog, explore how this information can help diagnose unexplained memory growth, and dive into the engineering challenges of collecting it with low enough overhead for continuous use.
🥗 20:15 - Drinks, Food & Networking
Enjoy refreshments while networking with community peers!
👋 21:00 - Goodbye, see you next time!
