{"componentChunkName":"component---src-templates-author-jsx","path":"/blog/author/andre-bearfield/","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 plan to move a lot of our apps to DigitalOcean App Platform and other fully managed products.” - Roman Svichar, CTO of Vidazoo","spans":[{"start":0,"end":7,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://vidazoo.com/"}},{"start":187,"end":583,"type":"em"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We believe in meeting customers where they are. If they already have an understanding of cloud infrastructure technologies, they should be able to leverage that knowledge and get started with our products without any further ramp up.","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Whatfix is an enterprise SaaS provider that offers a digital adoption platform to businesses. The company helps enterprises gain the full value of their investments in enterprise applications by providing real-time, interactive, and contextual guidance to users of those applications. \n\n“What we really love about the DigitalOcean platform is the ease of use. 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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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. 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PostgreSQL is arguably the world’s most advanced open source relational database, and it has been the bedrock of numerous applications for the past few decades. It became even more powerful with the release of PostgreSQL 12, which includes enhancements like improvements to query performance – particularly over larger data sets – and overall space utilization. Other new capabilities of version 12 include SQL/JSON path expression support, optimizations for how common table expression (WITH) queries are executed, and generated columns. ","spans":[{"start":32,"end":63,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/products/managed-databases-postgresql/"}},{"start":290,"end":314,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1976/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"In addition to DigitalOcean Managed Databases now supporting PostgreSQL 12, we are releasing the capability for in-place major version upgrades that allows you to easily upgrade from one major version to another (e.g. PostgreSQL v11 to PostgreSQL v12). This way you could test and validate the compatibility of existing database service on the new version before committing to the upgrade. The upgrade process is seamless and it eliminates the need to manually move data between services. 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This allows you to focus on building and enhancing your apps – not on maintaining your databases. With the above mentioned release, our current support matrix for engines and versions looks like the following:","spans":[{"start":45,"end":114,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/blog/just-how-managed-are-digitaloceans-managed-databases"}},{"start":79,"end":90,"type":"em"}]},{"type":"image","url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/2a758419-9554-4717-9ff8-76a726c84842_DBaaS+matrix.png?auto=compress,format","alt":null,"copyright":null,"dimensions":{"width":504,"height":202}},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We hope you upgrade your databases to PostgreSQL 12 and take advantage of all the enhancements and new capabilities that version 12 has to offer. Additionally, upgrading to PostgreSQL 12 from previous versions is free, so all the more reason to pull the ‘upgrade’ trigger. 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This plus their predictable pricing and awesome support made our choice of cloud vendor an easy one.– Raphael Costa, CTO @ Eficiência Fiscal","spans":[{"start":0,"end":290,"type":"em"},{"start":290,"end":330,"type":"strong"}]},{"type":"image","url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/af068ff8c0edbff3177ae2790d942b562908cd56_image5.png?auto=compress,format","alt":null,"copyright":null,"dimensions":{"width":151,"height":49}},{"type":"heading2","text":"Ensure fast performance with global data distribution","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"To help ensure fast application performance, we always recommend that you locate your Droplets and your data close to your users.","spans":[]},{"type":"heading5","text":"Managed Databases are Generally Available in eight locations","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"With today’s launch, you can now create Managed Databases for PostgreSQL in all of our data center regions: New York, Amsterdam, San Francisco, Singapore, London, Frankfurt, Toronto, and Bangalore.","spans":[{"start":76,"end":106,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/platform/availability-matrix/"}}]},{"type":"preformatted","text":"DigitalOcean Managed Databases gave us an out-of-the-box PostgreSQL cluster with a few clicks. Our customers noticed a huge performance change of our application and our DevOps team got a better way to manage the database.– Fernando Ruiz, Lead Developer, OpenWebinars.net","spans":[{"start":0,"end":222,"type":"em"},{"start":222,"end":271,"type":"strong"}]},{"type":"image","url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/692931d7ec9e7e9a92925c4e0a3b192751b3b54c_image10.png?auto=compress,format","alt":null,"copyright":null,"dimensions":{"width":390,"height":60}},{"type":"heading5","text":"Spaces Object Storage is now available in Frankfurt","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Additionally, Spaces, our object storage with a built-in CDN, is now available in Frankfurt, as well as San Francisco, Amsterdam, and Singapore.","spans":[{"start":14,"end":60,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://blog.digitalocean.com/spaces-now-includes-cdn/"}}]},{"type":"preformatted","text":"Content Ignite now uses nearly all of DigitalOcean’s product offerings, but the object storage provided by DigitalOcean Spaces and the ease of use of the DigitalOcean API are two qualities that our team has come to value in particular.– Lee Groombridge, CEO, Content Ignite","spans":[{"start":0,"end":235,"type":"em"},{"start":235,"end":273,"type":"strong"}]},{"type":"image","url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/365140bf826f3d0a2a7d9f01aefe67fa8e40d30c_image3.png?auto=compress,format","alt":null,"copyright":null,"dimensions":{"width":300,"height":72}},{"type":"heading2","text":"Much more to come","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Today is a significant milestone on a much longer journey to build out a broad set of services for storing and retrieving data. Our next priority for Managed Databases is to support the ability to run your databases in a Private Network, allowing users to isolate communication at the account or team level. Additionally, we’re hard at work to support additional database engines, such as MySQL and Redis.","spans":[{"start":221,"end":236,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/networking/private-networking/overview/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"But if PostgreSQL is your relational database du jour, we would love for you try our Managed Databases for PostgreSQL. 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Over the last few years, we’ve been building features to help – providing Droplets with generous SSD storage and adding Block Storage as another flexible option for you to maintain stateful applications. These features have enabled you to build your entire application stack, including your own databases, on our platform.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"However, you’re probably aware that building and maintaining your own database cluster can be cumbersome and can take away time from solving your business problems or application logic. That’s why our community has been asking for more automation and management of databases in order to focus on what's important: writing code.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Well, today we are excited to bring you Managed Databases by DigitalOcean, our own fully managed and feature rich database service. Starting with support for PostgreSQL, Managed Databases enables developers of all skill levels to quickly and easily spin up a high-performance database cluster that is worry-free and scalable. Best of all, you don’t need to know anything about the Linux operating system or specific DevOps maintenance tasks.","spans":[{"start":40,"end":57,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/products/managed-databases"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Managed Databases takes care of the common challenges that many businesses and developers face when building a database cluster from the ground up:","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Identifying the optimal database infrastructure footprint","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Scaling infrastructure as business and data requirements grow","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Designing and managing highly available infrastructure and failover processes","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Implementing a complete and reliable backup and recovery strategy","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Forecasting and maintaining operational infrastructure costs","spans":[]},{"type":"heading3","text":"How it Works","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Managed Databases provides a stable endpoint that developers can throw data into and request data from, so you don’t have to think about the intricacies of database administration.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We’re leading with PostgreSQL 10 and 11, which has more than 30 years of active community development. This makes it the most advanced SQL-compliant object-relational database on the market. Since it’s built on top of our core compute platform and uses local SSD storage, it’s lightning fast. In addition to our simple database dashboard, you can manage your database clusters programmatically with the DigitalOcean API.","spans":[{"start":403,"end":419,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://developers.digitalocean.com/documentation/v2/#databases"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"You can configure your database to be accessed from anywhere in the world, but, as you probably guessed, you will get higher performance if your data is near your application server. Therefore, we’ve enabled the service in all of our available regions, although some data center exceptions do exist.","spans":[{"start":267,"end":289,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/platform/availability-matrix/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"You’ll enjoy simple, predictable pricing that allows you to control your costs. Spin up a database node starting from $15 per month or high availability cluster from $50 per month. Backups are included for free with your service to keep things simple. Ingress bandwidth is always free, and egress fees ($0.01/GB per month) will be waived for 2019.","spans":[{"start":13,"end":40,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/#anchor--Databases"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Check out a demo of Managed Databases in action!","spans":[]},{"type":"heading3","text":"The Benefits of Managed Databases","spans":[]},{"type":"heading4","text":"Worry-free database maintenance","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"A significant advantage to Managed Databases is saving time – lots of time. Quickly deploy a database, and we’ll handle the rest. Never worry again about security patches to the OS or database engine – once a new version or patch is available, simply click a button to enable it.","spans":[]},{"type":"heading4","text":"Highly secure and optimized for performance","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"All data is encrypted at rest and in transit. Use the Cloud Firewall to restrict connections to your database. Your database runs on enterprise-class VM hardware with local SSD storage, giving you lightning-fast performance.","spans":[]},{"type":"heading4","text":"Easy scalability","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The “right size” for your infrastructure is a moving target. With Managed Databases, you can scale up at anytime with virtually no impact to your application. You have flexibility, so you can spin up read-only nodes to scale read operations or remove compute overhead from reporting requirements.","spans":[]},{"type":"heading4","text":"Automatic failovers","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Sleep easy, knowing that if an issue occurs with your primary node, traffic will automatically get routed to your standby nodes. We recommend selecting a high-availability option to minimize the impact in case of a failure.","spans":[]},{"type":"heading4","text":"Simple and reliable backup and recovery solution","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Backups are handled automatically and included to you at no additional fee. Full backups are taken everyday and write-ahead-logs are maintained to allow you to restore to any point-in-time during the retention period.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"[Related: Check out our Resource Center for resources and guides on Managed Databases]","spans":[{"start":0,"end":86,"type":"strong"},{"start":0,"end":86,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/resources/managed-databases/"}}]},{"type":"heading3","text":"What’s Next","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We hope you are as excited as we are about this release! Our engineering team is working hard to bring you even more functionality for your databases in 2019.  We plan to have additional engines such as Redis and MySQL, private networking with enhanced VPC, metrics, and alerting through Insights.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"If you are planning to attend Postgres Conference in New York City March 18–22, be sure to stop by and chat with me and the other members of the Product team. We’d love to meet you.","spans":[{"start":30,"end":49,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://postgresconf.org/conferences/2019"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Ready to create a database? Try Managed Databases now.","spans":[{"start":0,"end":54,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"http://cloud.digitalocean.com/databases"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Happy Coding,","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"André Bearfield","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Sr. Product Manager","spans":[]}],"blog_post_date":"2019-02-14","tags":[{"tag1":{"tag":"Product Updates","_linkType":"Link.document","_meta":{"uid":"product-updates"}}}],"_meta":{"uid":"announcing-managed-databases-for-postgresql"}}}]}}}