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Engineering

VPC: Behind The Scenes

November 19, 202414 min read
Product updates

DigitalOcean Expands New York Footprint: NYC2 Data Center Reopens to New Customers

November 13, 20242 min read
Product updates

Introducing Scalable Storage for DigitalOcean’s Managed MongoDB

November 12, 20245 min read
Product updates

DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS) Networking, Reimagined

Bikram Gupta, Ingo Gottwald, Piyush Srivastava, Braden Bassingthwaite, Udhay Ravindran

November 12, 20245 min read

News

Introducing the DigitalOcean Netlify Extension

Product / Data

October 3, 20242 min read

Join us at Deploy, DigitalOcean’s virtual conference

May 28, 20242 min read

Driving Inclusive Entrepreneurship with DO Impact

Admas Kanyagia

February 12, 20244 min read

Turbocharge Your Business with a Black Friday Cyber Monday Deal from Cloudways

DigitalOcean

November 21, 20234 min read

Paperspace Joins DigitalOcean to Expand AI Capabilities

Yancey Spruill

July 6, 20233 min read

DigitalOcean launches Partner Directory

DigitalOcean

May 22, 20232 min read

DigitalOcean expands backup capabilities with acquisition of SnapShooter

Gabe Monroy

January 11, 20233 min read

DigitalOcean featured on Tomorrow's World Today

DigitalOcean

November 14, 20221 min read

Introducing Partner Pod, DigitalOcean’s new partner program

Jeff Siefert

October 25, 20222 min read

Product updates

Announcing 1-Click Models powered by Hugging Face on DigitalOcean

October 23, 20242 min read

DigitalOcean Spaces Object Storage Now in Toronto

October 15, 20242 min read

DigitalOcean GPU Droplets, scalable computing power on demand

October 1, 20243 min read

Introducing Global Load Balancer: Optimize Your Global HTTP Traffic with Simplicity and Scale

Sr. Product Manager II

September 18, 20243 min read

Protect your data with Daily Backups

September 17, 20243 min read

GPUs and beyond: DigitalOcean’s roadmap for AI platforms and applications

Bratin Saha, Chief Product & Technology Officer

September 16, 20246 min read

Backup your DigitalOcean Kubernetes Data in One Click

Product

September 12, 20242 min read

Nvidia H100 now available on DigitalOcean Kubernetes (EA)

August 30, 20243 min read

Announcing DigitalOcean Spaces Object Storage: Now Available in London

August 29, 20242 min read

Cloud education

Top 10 Reasons to Choose DigitalOcean’s Managed Kafka Solution

Faye Hutsell

April 23, 20244 min read

Accelerate Your Business with DigitalOcean App Platform

April 1, 20245 min read

Access the New Cloud Buying Criteria Proposed by IDC for 2024

Faye Hutsell

March 27, 20243 min read

How ISVs and startups scale on DigitalOcean Kubernetes: Best Practices Part II - Observability

March 21, 202413 min read

How ISVs and startups scale on DigitalOcean Kubernetes: Best practices for DOKS adoption

February 26, 202410 min read

Partnering with DigitalOcean: Unleashing Growth Opportunities for ISVs

Fer Oliveira

December 19, 20235 min read

The Evolving Needs of Cloud Buyers and Vendor Selection

Dave McCarthy

December 12, 20234 min read

Top Ten Reasons Why Small and Medium-Sized Businesses Should Adopt DigitalOcean As Their Cloud Provider

Faye Hutsell

November 1, 20236 min read

Maximizing savings and security: Why tech startups should opt for ACH payments for cloud services

Ivan Tarin

July 26, 20232 min read

Engineering

How startups scale on DigitalOcean Kubernetes: Best Practices Part VI - Security

Engineer

October 8, 202412 min read

Introducing new GitHub Actions for App Platform

September 26, 20248 min read

How SMBs and startups scale on DigitalOcean Kubernetes: Best Practices Part V - Disaster Recovery

August 14, 20247 min read

How to Migrate Production Code to a Monorepo

August 13, 202411 min read

Simplifying Distributed App Complexity with App Platform’s Log Forwarding and OpenSearch

Senior Software Engineer

August 8, 20243 min read

Enhancing Search Capabilities with K-NN Vector Search in OpenSearch

July 31, 20245 min read

Deploying your Microservices Architecture App in App Platform using Managed Kafka

July 2, 20243 min read

How SMBs and startups scale on DigitalOcean Kubernetes: Best Practices Part IV - Scalability

June 6, 202411 min read

How SMBs and startups scale on DigitalOcean Kubernetes: Best Practices Part III - Reliability

May 24, 202416 min read

Partner News

DigitalOcean and ProxySQL LLC Collaborate to Bring PROXY Protocol Support to ProxySQL

Sr. Database Engineer II

October 10, 20243 min read

DigitalOcean Monthly Partnership Roundup August and September, 2024

October 4, 20242 min read

July 2024 Partnership Roundup

July 30, 20242 min read

June 2024 Partnership Roundup

June 28, 20242 min read

Jumpstart your growth with DigitalOcean’s ISV partner offer

Aaqib Gadit, CRO, DigitalOcean

June 24, 20242 min read

Migrate from Azure Media Services with Ant Media Server’s Marketplace App

June 11, 20242 min read

DigitalOcean and PureDome partner to deliver improved security against cyberattacks

June 10, 20242 min read

Elevate your e-commerce platforms with DigitalOcean and On Tap

May 20, 20242 min read

DigitalOcean partners with Tabnine to bring the power of AI-enabled software development to startups and developers globally

Fer Oliveira

February 15, 20243 min read

Community

Hacktoberfest 2024: How to Participate

October 11, 20244 min read

Join us this Hacktoberfest

October 2, 20244 min read

Hacktoberfest 2024: Celebrate All Things Open Source!

September 3, 20243 min read

A look back at the second official year of DO Impact

Admas Kanyagia

February 9, 20244 min read

Accelerate your ISV journey with DigitalOcean's powerful cloud platform in 2024

Aaqib Gadit

January 22, 20243 min read

Hacktoberfest Post-Event Survey Results

Phoebe Quincy

January 17, 20245 min read

The 10th anniversary of Hacktoberfest is a wrap!

Phoebe Quincy

November 15, 20235 min read

Try the DigitalOcean API directly from our documentation

Dan Brian

November 9, 20232 min read

How to participate in Hacktoberfest

Phoebe Quincy

September 27, 20238 min read

Trust & Security

How DigitalOcean Uses Semgrep to Fortify Security: A Highlight From Our Toolset

Product Security Engineer

October 7, 20242 min read

Contextual Vulnerability Management With Security Risk As Debt

August 12, 202413 min read

Regresshion vulnerability: Recommended actions and steps we've taken

July 2, 20247 min read

DigitalOcean and HIPAA: Enabling Healthcare Innovation on our Platform

Manager, Trust and Governance

July 1, 20242 min read

Announcing the Public Launch of DigitalOcean’s Paid Bug Bounty Program

Senior Manager, Product Security

April 5, 20244 min read

Fine-Grained RBAC For GitHub Action Workflows With GitHub OIDC and HashiCorp Vault

Senior Manager, Product Security

February 3, 202328 min read

Enabling Engineering Teams Through Developer-First Secrets Management

Senior Manager, Product Security

January 26, 20238 min read

Securing your DigitalOcean account

DigitalOcean

January 10, 20233 min read

Impact to DigitalOcean customers resulting from Mailchimp security incident

Tyler Healy

August 15, 20224 min read

Culture

2022 demonstrated the strength of small businesses

Yancey Spruill

December 29, 20223 min read

A day in the life with DigitalOcean's Customer Success Managers

DigitalOcean

December 19, 20223 min read

Get to know: Senior Technical Writer II Alex Garnett

DigitalOcean

November 8, 20224 min read

Intern Insights: Serverless Functions

Shivani Kumar

September 20, 20224 min read

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging Report 2022

Yancey Spruill

September 13, 20222 min read

A summer with the Kubernetes team

August 30, 20224 min read

A Q&A with DigitalOcean's summer interns

DigitalOcean

July 27, 20225 min read

A conversation with DigitalOcean’s Afro Sharks Employee Resource Group leaders

DigitalOcean

June 16, 20224 min read

A conversation with Rainbow DOlphins ERG leaders

DigitalOcean

June 1, 20226 min read