Datadog's free trial is really limited although i am a fan of Datadog. Probably because i use Datadog at work. On the other hand Datadog is really expensive for a side project.
Newrelic's free plan is nice. Didn't know about Grafana cloud. Looks really generous.
I recall having a twitter discussion with him a few years ago where the thread was about NL being a single PHP file and he was anti-framework with the stance that their added complexity didn't outweigh the benefits they provided. No idea if things have changed since then, but I don't think CS is his background.
Really interesting article. This actually seems like a really smart move but only in short term. In the long term, they will definitely suffer because the employees will take poor decisions in order to complete in the cut throat environment and high turn over. Perfect example of this approach is GE. They started implementing something like this in 90s and in 2000 it was one of the most valued companies. By late 2000s GE was completely ruined. It is not even a Fortune 500 anymore.
I just leave this link here. Quip is one of my favorite offline-first cross-platform app. They use leveldb (realm is also based on leveldb) on the client and use mysql on the server. Protocol buffers are used for communication although thats just a communication method.
