Today was my last day working at DataDog. Despite me having built and launched a pretty useful service within our department, the leadership decided to set it aside and built its next iteration with different people and different technologies. I resisted for a while :-), but wasn't really trying to save it at any cost: after all, nothing you do at work really belongs to you, so it's up to the company to decide what they want.
That left me with nothing (big) to do, and starting anything new would've meant spending another 3 years building something from scratch without any real prospects or promises. So I left.
Regarding what's next, I don't know yet. I have a few interesting ideas, some of them really big and scary, so I'll take some time to recharge and set my mind straight. In the meantime I may try to finish the remaining 20% of my old pet project.
Comments: 4
Thanks for DataDog. It is awesome.
…doesn't really belong to you…?
Yes. A company is paying you to do something for it. You don't get to take it home :-) Sure you get a line on your resume and may be some new skills, but it's ultimately up to the company to do whatever it wants with the product it hired you to make. I think it's not healthy to develop emotional personal attachment to such projects. You can still be proud of the work you've done. (Which I am!)
When the project in our hand but the controller in the other side, what we can do? built our own. Basically, we do already have a dream project, every of us. Btw, now i'm using one of your, hightlights js, really awesome, fast load and useful. Combine it with NodeJs.