{"componentChunkName":"component---src-templates-blog-list-jsx","path":"/blog/27/","result":{"data":{"prismic":{"allFeaturedblogs":{"edges":[{"node":{"featured_blogs_enabled":true,"heading":[{"type":"paragraph","text":"Featured posts","spans":[]}],"featured_blog_1":{"__typename":"PRISMIC_Blog","_linkType":"Link.document","blog_header_image":{"dimensions":{"width":790,"height":395},"alt":null,"copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/6d8d81b1-971a-4313-b033-b4e125cb14a0_MondoDB-blog-header-790x395.PNG?auto=compress,format"},"blog_headline":[{"type":"heading1","text":"Introducing DigitalOcean Managed MongoDB – a fully managed, database as a service for modern apps","spans":[]}],"blog_post_date":"2021-06-29","blog_post_content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":"MongoDB is one of the most popular databases, and it’s ideal for apps that evolve rapidly and need to handle huge volumes of data and traffic. It offers advantages like flexible document schemas, code-native data access, change-friendly design, and easy horizontal scale-out.","spans":[{"start":22,"end":44,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://db-engines.com/en/ranking","target":"_blank"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"However, building and maintaining MongoDB clusters from the ground up can be a huge undertaking. Developers often complain that they have to spend their valuable time and resources on database management. Well, we’ve been listening and have some great news: accessing and managing MongoDB on DigitalOcean just got a lot simpler!","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We are excited to announce that DigitalOcean Managed MongoDB is now in General Availability. Managed MongoDB is a fully managed, database as a service (DBaaS) offering from DigitalOcean, built in partnership with and certified by MongoDB Inc. It provides you all the technical capabilities that make MongoDB so beloved in the developer community. Together we have ensured that you will get access to all the latest releases of the MongoDB document database as they become available.","spans":[{"start":32,"end":91,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/products/managed-databases-mongodb/"}},{"start":230,"end":241,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.mongodb.com/","target":"_blank"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Managed MongoDB simplifies the MongoDB administration. Developers of all skill levels, even those who do not have prior experience in databases, can spin up MongoDB clusters in just a few minutes. We handle the provisioning, managing, scaling, updates, backups, and security of your MongoDB clusters, allowing you to offload the complex, time consuming –yet critical – database administration tasks to us. This empowers you to focus on what really matters: building awesome apps.","spans":[]},{"type":"embed","oembed":{"height":113,"width":200,"embed_url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvHQSV7jnKA","type":"video","version":"1.0","title":"Create a MongoDB Database on DigitalOcean","author_name":"DigitalOcean","author_url":"https://www.youtube.com/c/Digitalocean","provider_name":"YouTube","provider_url":"https://www.youtube.com/","cache_age":null,"thumbnail_url":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/NvHQSV7jnKA/hqdefault.jpg","thumbnail_width":480,"thumbnail_height":360,"html":"<iframe width=\"200\" height=\"113\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/NvHQSV7jnKA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen></iframe>"}},{"type":"heading2","text":"Benefits of Managed MongoDB","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Easy set up and maintenance: We create the database clusters for you. Simply choose the cluster configuration (e.g., memory, disk size, number of nodes, etc.), and the data center in which you want to host the database. Follow a few simple steps and your database cluster will be up and running in a matter of minutes. You can spin up clusters using the cloud control panel, CLI, or API.\n\n","spans":[{"start":0,"end":28,"type":"strong"}]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Automatic daily backups with point in time recovery: Data is one of the most important assets of an app, so it’s critical to backup your database. We take backups of your entire clusters automatically on a daily basis, for free. We also provide a point in time recovery for 7 days, that way if things go wrong due to human error, machine error, or some combination of both, you can easily restore the database as it was at any point in the previous 7 days. \n\n","spans":[{"start":0,"end":52,"type":"strong"}]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Automatic updates and access to latest MongoDB releases: You get access to MongoDB 4.4. This is the latest release of MongoDB and comes packed with numerous enhancements like hedged reads, rust, and swift drivers. Since we have developed Managed MongoDB in partnership with MongoDB Inc, you will always get access to new releases as they become available. With Managed MongoDB, the updates happen automatically. Just select a date and time for the updates and we take care of the rest. This makes it easy to stay up to date with MongoDB releases without disrupting your business.\n\n","spans":[{"start":0,"end":56,"type":"strong"},{"start":148,"end":169,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.mongodb.com/new","target":"_blank"}}]},{"type":"list-item","text":"High availability with automated failover: If your database goes down, it can take down the entire app, leading to bad customer experiences. With Managed MongoDB, you can easily minimize the downtime for your database and make it highly available with standby nodes. Standby nodes add redundancy, so if for example the primary node fails, the standby node is immediately promoted to primary and begins serving requests while we provision a replacement standby node in the background.\n\n","spans":[{"start":0,"end":42,"type":"strong"}]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Scale up easily to handle traffic spikes: As your app gains traction and the usage grows, it’s important to have a database that can keep up with the increased demand. With Managed MongoDB, you can easily scale up the size of database nodes when needed.\n\n","spans":[{"start":0,"end":41,"type":"strong"}]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Secure by default: Since data is critical, it also needs to be secure. We encrypt data at rest with LUKS and in transit with SSL. When you create a new cluster, it’s placed in a VPC network by default that provides a more secure connection between resources. You can also restrict access to your nodes to prevent brute-force password and denial-of-service attacks.","spans":[{"start":0,"end":18,"type":"strong"},{"start":178,"end":189,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/networking/vpc/"}}]},{"type":"heading2","text":"The need for Managed Databases","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"DigitalOcean’s mission is to simplify cloud computing so developers, startups, and SMBs can spend more time building software that changes the world. While databases are a critical component to any application, building, maintaining, and scaling them can be complex and time consuming. For developers that are building apps for their business, database administration is often not a core focus area. But it’s quite common to find developers that write the code and then also roll up their sleeves to maintain databases. Such users would rather offload the tedious database administration and focus their limited time and energy on building and enhancing their apps. ","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"With this in mind, we introduced Managed Databases a couple of years ago and are excited to add Managed MongoDB to our portfolio. With this release, DigitalOcean Managed Databases now supports the following engines:","spans":[{"start":33,"end":50,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/products/managed-databases/"}}]},{"type":"image","url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/87745cc1-1c5f-4463-b104-104b7fc30dc7_managed-databases-logos.png?auto=compress,format","alt":null,"copyright":null,"dimensions":{"width":849,"height":104}},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Managed MongoDB launch comes on the heels of DigitalOcean App Platform, a modern, reimagined PaaS (Platform as a Service) that we released a few months ago. App Platform makes it very easy to build, deploy, and scale apps and static sites. You can deploy code by simply pointing to your GitHub and GitLab repos, and App Platform will do all the heavy lifting of managing infrastructure, app runtimes, and dependencies. App Platform, along with Managed Databases, helps fulfill DigitalOcean’s mission by empowering developers, startups, and SMBs to focus more on their apps, and less on the underlying infrastructure and databases.","spans":[{"start":45,"end":70,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform/"}}]},{"type":"heading2","text":"How Managed MongoDB works","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"DigitalOcean provides you with various compute options to build your apps like:","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Droplets: On-demand, Linux virtual machines suitable for production business applications and personal passion projects.","spans":[{"start":0,"end":8,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/products/droplets/"}}]},{"type":"list-item","text":"DigitalOcean Kubernetes: Managed Kubernetes with automatic scaling, upgrades, and a free control plane.","spans":[{"start":0,"end":23,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/products/kubernetes/"}}]},{"type":"list-item","text":"DigitalOcean App Platform: A fully managed Platform as a Service.","spans":[{"start":0,"end":25,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"No matter which compute option you choose to build your apps, you can easily add Managed MongoDB to it. In addition to this, Managed MongoDB also integrates with the Node.js 1-Click App from DigitalOcean Marketplace making it a lot easier to build Node.js apps.","spans":[{"start":166,"end":215,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://marketplace.digitalocean.com/apps/nodejs"}}]},{"type":"heading2","text":"Simple, predictable pricing","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Just like all DigitalOcean products, Managed MongoDB provides simple, predictable pricing that allows you to control costs and prevent any surprise bills. You can spin up a database cluster for just $15/month, or a highly available three-node replica set for $45/month. Click here for more information.","spans":[{"start":270,"end":301,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/#managed-databases"}}]},{"type":"heading2","text":"Regional availability","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Managed MongoDB is currently available in the following regions:","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"NYC3 (New York, USA)","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"FRA1 (Frankfurt, Germany)","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"AMS3 (Amsterdam, Netherlands)","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We will be making Managed Mongo available in other regions soon. Please check out the release notes for most up to date information on regional availability.","spans":[{"start":86,"end":99,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/release-notes/"}}]},{"type":"heading2","text":"Join us at deploy, DigitalOcean’s virtual user conference","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Today we have deploy, DigitalOcean’s signature user conference, which focuses on celebrating, educating, and connecting awesome builders from all over the world.","spans":[{"start":14,"end":20,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://deploy.digitalocean.com/home"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Check out the keynote session from DigitalOcean's CEO, Yancey Spruill, in which he talks about where we're headed as a company and shares some exciting product updates. His keynote will be followed by sessions from community members, engineers, customers, and other experts that are building technologies and businesses powered by the cloud. With live Q&A and an active Discord server, there’s ample opportunity to engage and learn something new. Click here to attend the deploy conference.","spans":[{"start":14,"end":69,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://deploy.digitalocean.com/agenda/session/552806"}},{"start":347,"end":384,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"http://do.co/deploy-discord"}},{"start":461,"end":489,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"http://do.co/deploy"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We are also launching a hackathon for DigitalOcean Managed MongoDB. Learn how you can participate, submit an app and get a t-shirt.","spans":[{"start":24,"end":66,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/mongodb-hackathon"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We hope you will give Managed MongoDB a try. Here are some sample datasets and sample apps that you can use to kick the tires. Check out the docs and let us know what you think!","spans":[{"start":22,"end":43,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://cloud.digitalocean.com/databases/new?engine=mongodb"}},{"start":59,"end":90,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://github.com/do-community/mongodb-resources","target":"_blank"}},{"start":141,"end":145,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/databases/mongodb/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"If you’d like to have a conversation about using DigitalOcean and Managed MongoDB in your business, please feel free to contact our sales team.","spans":[{"start":120,"end":142,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/company/contact/sales/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Happy coding!","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"André Bearfield","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Director of Product Management","spans":[]}],"tags":[{"tag1":{"__typename":"PRISMIC_Tag","tag":"Product Updates","_linkType":"Link.document","_meta":{"uid":"product-updates"}}}],"author":{"__typename":"PRISMIC_Author","author_name":"André Bearfield","author_image":{"dimensions":{"width":553,"height":547},"alt":"André Bearfield","copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/fdc7c85186f0a850b04083e1d4306bd1c19772e8_andre-bearfield.png?auto=compress,format"},"_meta":{"uid":"andre-bearfield"}},"_meta":{"uid":"introducing-digitalocean-managed-mongodb"}},"featured_blog_2":{"__typename":"PRISMIC_Blog","_linkType":"Link.document","blog_header_image":{"dimensions":{"width":790,"height":400},"alt":"Droplet Console","copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/710499ae-78cc-4179-afc1-15793637b200_DODX3727-790x400-logo-2.jpg?auto=compress,format"},"blog_headline":[{"type":"heading1","text":"Securely connect to Droplets with SSH key pairs using a new Droplet Console","spans":[]}],"blog_post_date":"2021-08-10","blog_post_content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":"The famous author Ken Blanchard once said, “Feedback is the breakfast of champions.\" This is something we truly believe at DigitalOcean, and we always strive to enhance our products based on customer feedback.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"With this goal in mind, we are excited to introduce a new Droplet Console that will make it much easier to connect to your Droplets securely. 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At a high level, SSH works by creating cryptographic key pairs consisting of a public and private key, which are computer generated and stored separately to ensure their security. ","spans":[{"start":80,"end":117,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://cybernews.com/best-password-managers/most-common-passwords/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"SSH has become the default encryption protocol for many industries, but it was difficult to use SSH keys with DigitalOcean’s current Recovery (VNC) console, which is why we developed our new Droplet Console. The new Droplet Console is backed by an agent that security supervises the key pair, while also providing one-click SSH access to our users. You can see the full list of features below.","spans":[]},{"type":"heading2","text":"The new Droplet Console: More time saving, less time wasting ","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The new Droplet Console is for everyone who is looking to build fast, secure apps and avoid hassles with SSH access & usability issues.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"In addition to easier SSH access, the new Droplet Console comes with:","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Copy/paste text: Instead of typing lengthy key pairs and text manually, you can use copy/paste to save time. ","spans":[{"start":0,"end":17,"type":"strong"}]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Multi-color support: Multi-color support makes the console more useful and intuitive, and breaks the conventional standard appearance which is black text on a white background. ","spans":[{"start":0,"end":41,"type":"strong"}]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Multi-language support: DigitalOcean’s new Droplet Console supports multiple languages, meaning you can now type and view any content in any language that is supported by UTF-8","spans":[{"start":0,"end":24,"type":"strong"}]},{"type":"list-item","text":"OS/images supported: Linux distributions (Ubuntu(16.04 - 20.04), Fedora (32 & 33), Debian (9), CentOS (7.6 & 8.3), CentOS 8 Stream, Rocky Linux and Marketplace images.","spans":[{"start":0,"end":20,"type":"strong"},{"start":148,"end":159,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://marketplace.digitalocean.com/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The new Droplet Console is available by default on any new Droplets you spin up. 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","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Writing the code, testing, deployment, monitoring the usage in production, and ensuring that your apps are able to handle the additional demand when customer base and usage grows are all essential and time-consuming tasks.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Additionally, being able to test multiple ideas, pivot, and double down on the ideas that actually work is critical in early stages of SaaS development. Once growth comes, it is equally important to scale up without compromising on performance or reliability. 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The last thing SaaS teams want is surprising and indecipherable bills from your cloud provider. Unfortunately, smaller businesses often experience unpredictable costs with cloud providers who are busy serving only the large enterprises.","spans":[]},{"type":"heading2","text":"DigitalOcean provides a simple, cost effective solution for SaaS builders","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Fortunately, at DigitalOcean we have a laser focus on small software development teams, who are trying to build the next generation of applications. Today, DigitalOcean customers are already building SaaS applications which serve all kinds of customers.","spans":[{"start":191,"end":217,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/solutions/saas/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We believe SaaS builders should focus on building apps that power their business, and not spend their valuable time on managing infrastructure. 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We feel like we know infrastructure and can handle most of the configuration and management. What we needed from a cloud was not bells and whistles but efficiency and reliability. DigitalOcean provides us a platform to build our apps and then gets out of the way. Just how we like it.” - Achyuth Krishna, Director of Engineering of Whatfix","spans":[{"start":0,"end":7,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://whatfix.com/blog/driving-the-future-now-were-excited-to-announce-our-90-million-series-d-funding/"}},{"start":287,"end":648,"type":"em"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We understand that scaling while maintaining reliability of applications and profitability of business is important, so we provide robust solutions which minimize downtime.","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Centra is a SaaS-based e-commerce platform for global direct-to-consumer and wholesale e-commerce brands. 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We are in the process of hiring  more engineers, evangelists, community managers, and technical writers to continue to improve our service and expand our knowledge-base.","spans":[{"start":321,"end":327,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/company/careers/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Over the next year, the community will undergo a design and functionality overhaul that will change the way developers interact online.  With your help, we hope to add a social component to compliment the technical aspect of the community, allowing users to contribute via tutorial, question, answer, comment, etc.  The community will house a revamped tutorials section, a robust Q & A section, DigitalOcean Projects (integrations), upvoting capabilities, and most importantly user profiles. 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Instead of adopting an existing project we decided to build it ourselves. It was the only way we saw to create a unique experience that customers would love.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We are building services today that will make developers lives easier tomorrow. With thousands of servers spread across the entire world, scale is at the heart of DigitalOcean's engineering challenges.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"With this funding, aside from purchasing a boat-load of servers and networking gear, we are growing our engineering team.","spans":[{"start":104,"end":120,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/company/careers/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Great engineers reside in every city across the world and we're hiring remotely.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Whether you live in San Francisco, Amsterdam, or Australia, we'd love to chat about your passion for making developers lives easier and building large distributed systems.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"## Thanks To The Community","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We have been humbled by the support of our community.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We continue to be amazed everyday by the awesome work you do. 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New users throughout Southeast Asia and nearby regions in Australia and India will have better connectivity and a greater overall experience.","spans":[]},{"type":"image","url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/1730bc40d41a80ed7793de2aae24fec51680c74b_2.png?auto=compress,format","alt":"region selection","copyright":null,"dimensions":{"width":710,"height":368}},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Our decision to open a new datacenter here was a no-brainer. According to the Global Developer Population and Demographic Study published by Evans Data Corporation, Southeast Asia will be a leader in growth over the next few years. 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Finding New York a bit abrasive, he prefers his home office, where just last week he replied to over 1,800 customer tickets (he typically aims for 30-40 per hour). We sat down with Josh to discuss troubleshooting, Linux tattoos, and why he's got the best job in the world.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Where are you from?","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"I am from the great state of Ohio!","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Where do you currently live?","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"I am living in San Antonio, Texas. I joined the Air Force when I was 18 to see the world and found myself there. When I got out I had a few job offers, so I decided to set up shop and haven't looked back.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"How did you become involved with computer programming / troubleshooting?","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Troubleshooting started very early in my life. I began hiding cookies in my browser from my parents who were catching on to what I'd be doing on the internets [laughs].  Actually my interest, in a less technical sense, probably dates back to when I started wrestling and doing jiu jitsu. With those activities you're dealing with body mechanics as opposed to mechanics on a server, but you learn that everything impacts something – from setting up to take downs to even passing guard. I think that really is the foundation of how I troubleshoot efficiently: if someone says their server or site is down, it becomes muscle memory in terms of what to look for and what configurations to keep in mind.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Later, Linux and Python became somewhat of an addiction. Like some shady fellow came up to me and was like \"have you tried some of this Linux?\" and I've never stopped using it. I think about it all the time; I use it to solve problems and simplify my day. I was lucky to have friends who were very knowledgable and helped spark my interest.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Describe your typical day?","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Coffee as soon as I wake up, maybe I check my email. Then most of my day is spent slamming on tickets.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Once the workday is over it's a toss up: I love doing yard work, and I love destroying my four year old in one-on-one basketball on his 5 foot hoop (I am better than Lebron James in his eyes and intend to keep it that way). After that, my wife and I usually put the kids to bed around 9 and have a movie set to fall asleep.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"How do you approach customer support [How does \"Love\" factor in]?","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The way I approach customer support is my own kind of style. I'm of the belief that as a support specialist, I do not need access to our customers' virtual servers in order to resolve an issue – there are always context clues I can use to my advantage. I want to dominate the issue and have that customer completely wow'd (if you're reading this and I haven't done that for you, open a ticket and I will see what I can do).  I think that if you leave a customer breathless, positive word of mouth can be the best kind of marketing for your company. That's the love factor: treating each customer like their issue is your issue. Their site is down, my site is down; Their server is not pinging, my server is not pinging. I have to fix this NOW.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"You're busy helping users all day. Any time for your own projects?","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"On the weekend, I enjoy writing Python scripts that make it possible for my wife – who isn't very familiar with computers / Linux – to perform tasks such as a mass server deploy or resizing a droplet via the api. That lets me know the code is well written and user friendly. I'm also working on a few automation things of my own.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"What's the most exciting part of your job?","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"For me, it's the diversity of issues I get to see. It's like being an artist waking up to a blank canvas, and having the gratification of finishing a different painting every day. I couldn't ask for a better job.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"What's the most gratifying ticket you personally resolved?","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"There have definitely been a few times where I've fixed an unbootable filesystem... next thing my wife sees is me coming out of my office screaming \"HECK YES I FIXED IT!\"","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"What's the biggest project you've ever helped setup?","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Technical: I've set up quite a few clusters in my day. If you listen to me, your website will never go down.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Non-technicaI: I used to coach a high school wrestling team in San Antonio. We had a few placers in a state championship within two years.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"How is working remote?","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Horrible! 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Any others we should know about?","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"I have the Ballmer Peak, the Debian Logo, a fork bomb, and a Linux Tux.","spans":[]},{"type":"image","url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/55b2bab48edd3cce8e114a8e43ae55d12394c81c_linux_tattoo.jpg?auto=compress,format","alt":"linux","copyright":null,"dimensions":{"width":648,"height":409}},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Is there a subreddit you frequently visit?","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"My favorite subreddit is /r/showerbeer.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"You've previously worked for other cloud providers. What made you want to work for DigitalOcean?","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"When I applied here, I was coming from a gig where I used to wake up and couldn't wait to login. I'm grateful I was able to find that enthusiasm again at DigitalOcean. When it comes to your job, it has to be something you're passionate about and absolutely love doing day in and day out. You have one life, you should like what you spend your time doing. It may sound strange, but I wake up and get excited to see my ticket queue in the morning. It's something that I thoroughly enjoy and have a passion for – knowing I get to be a part of something great.","spans":[]}],"blog_post_date":"2014-02-05","tags":[{"tag1":{"tag":"Community","_linkType":"Link.document","_meta":{"uid":"community"}}}],"_meta":{"uid":"inside-digitalocean-warhammer"}}},{"node":{"author":{"_linkType":"Link.document","author_name":"DigitalOcean","author_image":{"dimensions":{"width":600,"height":600},"alt":"Sammy avatar","copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/a10e3c2eb15b74ee43f872be3044313423b1c9a9_sammy_avatar.png?auto=compress,format"},"_meta":{"uid":"digitalocean"}},"blog_header_image":{"dimensions":{"width":750,"height":400},"alt":"ubc sailboat","copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/8f31eb9c-5ebe-459f-aa12-2fc8a3a14fce_header.png?auto=compress,format"},"blog_headline":[{"type":"heading1","text":"February's TopDrop: UBC SailBot","spans":[]}],"blog_post_content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":"February's #TopDrop features UBC SailBot – a student team dedicated to designing and building a robotic sailboat [SailBot] to compete in the Microtransat Challenge – that will attempt to set a world record by crossing the Atlantic Ocean.","spans":[{"start":29,"end":40,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"http://ubcsailbot.org/"}},{"start":141,"end":163,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"http://www.microtransat.org/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Winning last year's SailBot 2013 International Robotic Sailing Regatta with a perfect score, the team's motivation is neither class credit nor financial gain; simply put, UBC Sailbot is passionate about complex programming, advanced electronics, and sailing. Their inolvement with robotic sailing has become an important part of their engineering education, and is a large contributor to their knowledge of engineering principles, naval architecture, mechatronics, and teamwork.","spans":[{"start":20,"end":70,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"http://sailbot.org/"}}]},{"type":"image","url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/12fa3bb0caecb54244bfbd0a08d4c8d2c767e3ca_cross_2.png?auto=compress,format","alt":"regatta","copyright":null,"dimensions":{"width":975,"height":532}},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The team consists of over 40 students at the University of British Columbia. With support from industry mentor and yacht designer Don Martin, these students design, manufacture, test, and race high-performance robotic sailboats. Over the past three years, the UBC team has had impressive results in the annual International SailBot Championships: 2nd in 2011, 1st in 2012, and most recently in 2013 where team again captured 1st place – this time with a perfect score of 50 / 50.","spans":[{"start":130,"end":140,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"http://sailboatdata.com/view_designer.asp?designer_id=178"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"To put things in perspective: the US Navy placed 2nd that year.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The UBC SailBot team has certainly proven their ability to take on the best teams in the world. So what made these first class engineers migrate to DigitalOcean? According to team member Josh Andrews,","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"\"Our requirements for hosted computing power changed drastically this year. We went from only needing a blog, to needing a reliable place that could drive all of our various testing and public facing needs. When looking into different ideas for how to do this, DigitalOcean quickly rose to the top of the stack in terms of both speed and price. We also love SSDs!\"","spans":[]},{"type":"image","url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/a7da8f6e375802df26f34a11607b7e4d9979072e_sailbot.jpg?auto=compress,format","alt":"sailboat","copyright":null,"dimensions":{"width":3008,"height":2000}},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The team will utilize a DigitalOcean droplet for tracking, blogging, project management, and testing. Their present aspiration is to cross the Atlantic autonomously, from Newfoundland to Ireland. When the boat starts its journey, its main point of contact will be with the droplet: information such as location and current telemetry data will be sent over satellite to the VPS, and all data will be displayed on the team's tracking page.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"They will also use the droplet extensively during testing, and when in range of GSM the team will use those networks instead of satellite to send information to the debug page also hosted on the VPS. This information consists of more granular data than sent over satellite, including the current state of the boat and sensors as well as the information sent from the algorithms running the control logic.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Follow UBC SailBot on Twitter [@UBCSailbots] and cheer them on as they cross the ocean!","spans":[{"start":31,"end":43,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://twitter.com/ubcsailbots"}}]},{"type":"image","url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/80002d0fcd507c83d7e677362d0ad1622e7538de_cross_1.jpg?auto=compress,format","alt":"cross the ocean","copyright":null,"dimensions":{"width":960,"height":250}},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Submit your project using the hashtag #TopDrop on Twitter, Facebook, or Google+.","spans":[{"start":50,"end":57,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://twitter.com/digitalocean"}},{"start":59,"end":67,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.facebook.com/DigitalOceanCloudHosting"}},{"start":72,"end":79,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://plus.google.com/117083621748239590241/posts"}}]}],"blog_post_date":"2014-02-02","tags":[{"tag1":{"tag":"Community","_linkType":"Link.document","_meta":{"uid":"community"}}}],"_meta":{"uid":"february-s-topdrop-ubc-sailbot"}}},{"node":{"author":{"_linkType":"Link.document","author_name":"DigitalOcean","author_image":{"dimensions":{"width":600,"height":600},"alt":"Sammy avatar","copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/a10e3c2eb15b74ee43f872be3044313423b1c9a9_sammy_avatar.png?auto=compress,format"},"_meta":{"uid":"digitalocean"}},"blog_header_image":{"dimensions":{"width":750,"height":392},"alt":"hacktech","copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/36da2561-9871-481d-a9b6-ea679bbc9911_01222014hacktech_blog.png?auto=compress,format"},"blog_headline":[{"type":"heading1","text":"Hacking Beachside in Santa Monica","spans":[]}],"blog_post_content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":"DigitalOcean will be sponsoring this year's HackTech in sunny California! We're getting anxious just thinking about the insanely cool hacks, the warm weather, and of course – the ocean.","spans":[{"start":44,"end":52,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"http://www.hacktech.io/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The event is essentially a winter weekend getaway for the world's most dedicated college devs looking to hack their way to a working prototype. These talented programmers will work with teams to solve problems and develop concepts – notable examples of \"hacks\" are GroupMe as well as the Facebook Like button and Chat feature.","spans":[{"start":265,"end":272,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://groupme.com/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We love hackathons because it represents our philosophy that technology is trending toward bottom-up adoption and highlights the importance of developers. At HackTech, students are empowered to build whatever they want, from websites to apps (and even hardware!), the only real limitation being the time constraint of the event.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"After time runs out, teams demo what they've built and compete for prizes. That said, even those who do not complete their projects will experience an unparalleled networking event, with some of the smartest people one could hope to collaborate with. 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We are lucky enough to learn about our community members and what they're working on every day – here's your chance to get an exclusive, personal look inside the DigitalOcean.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Featured in our first employee spotlight is Brooke McKim, engineer at DigitalOcean since April 2013. Born outside of Philly and living in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, we sat down and talked about programming languages, open-source projects, and what it's like to be the coolest guy in the office.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"When did you first become interested in development?","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"My first programming class was in high school – I honestly didn't like it very much. Then I took some more classes in college, but I was more focused on system administration and IT security. The first major step in programming was for my final project senior year – I took on the role of doing the web application.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"What's the most interesting project you're currently working on?","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Right now it's very interesting to work on DigitalOcean's scale and its growth to this point. We're sort of re-evaluating everything we've done in the past, bringing it up to date to work with all the new users in our community.","spans":[{"start":43,"end":63,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/blog_posts/thank-you-so-much-for-making-2013-a-huge-success"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Do you have any advice for aspiring developers?","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"It would probably be don't assume that all other developers know everything just because they've been doing it a long time. And don't beat up on yourself just because you don't know something. 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Most of the time I try and stay away from programming language debates though – they can be really silly.","spans":[{"start":25,"end":29,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Do you have any favorite open source projects?","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"I'm a big fan of open source projects that are just rock solid and work really well. It's kind of hard to achieve sometimes in the open source community, because you have a lot of different people working on the same project. Nginx comes to mind, which is an incredible web server. Rails is also a great open source project, although not quite as stable.","spans":[{"start":226,"end":231,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"http://wiki.nginx.org/Main"}},{"start":282,"end":287,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"http://rubyonrails.org/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Are there any trends you think to follow?","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Certainly the JavaScript community is trending at the moment. The node community is growing too, but I'm more interested in the people building the front end JavaScript frameworks that are making some amazing websites. They're giving new experiences that we've never had on the web before. I was recently at a conference where a presenter talked about Bustle.com, which is a women's information and news site. You load the page and there's pictures to click that instantly load articles. They were using Ember.js and the technology was really cool.","spans":[{"start":352,"end":362,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"http://www.bustle.com/"}},{"start":504,"end":512,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"http://emberjs.com/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Do you have any outside hobbies?","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"I'm pretty into music. 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Speaking at the event will be the \"best of the best in Angular\", including one of our featured developers Brian Ford, who currently works on Angular.js for Google.","spans":[{"start":0,"end":7,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"http://ng-conf.org/"}},{"start":214,"end":233,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/blog_posts/20-developers-to-follow-in-2014"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The conference will be hosted in gorgeous Salt Lake City, more specifically at the Little America Hotel located downtown; if you're feeling adventerous you can also attend the Sundance Film Festival, experience Salt Lake's blossoming art scene, or hit the slopes at a world class ski resort and really make a trip out of it.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We're proud to be sponsoring this event, not only because of the quality of the speakers, but also for the opportunity to network with other developers and join the conversation of the future.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"And who knows, our very own Chief Evangelist @jedgar may even have a party. 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We chose these talented individuals because they make staying in touch, enjoying content, and experiencing the internet a much easier and pleasurable experience. And not only do they write great code, but we found their social presence helpful for those looking for general tips and tricks, advice on myriad languages, and updates about what's coming to the web in the future. While we cannot highlight every developer we admire, we're confident the ones listed below (in no particular order) are some of the most gifted and inspirational.","spans":[]},{"type":"heading3","text":"Jen Meyers","spans":[]},{"type":"image","url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/9cdf8b39d9209602921b726cc7234b20e44689be_jenmyers.png?auto=compress,format","alt":null,"copyright":null,"dimensions":{"width":200,"height":200}},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Jen Myers is a web designer/developer and part of the instructor team at Dev Bootcamp in Chicago. 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