{"componentChunkName":"component---src-templates-author-jsx","path":"/blog/author/digitalocean/3/","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":""}},{"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. 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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. 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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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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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You’re welcome to spin some Droplets up right now, and try out the new Droplet Console – why wait?","spans":[{"start":72,"end":103,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://cloud.digitalocean.com/droplets/new"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Happy coding!","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Harsh Banwait, Senior Product Manager","spans":[]}],"tags":[{"tag1":{"__typename":"PRISMIC_Tag","tag":"Product Updates","_linkType":"Link.document","_meta":{"uid":"product-updates"}}}],"author":{"__typename":"PRISMIC_Author","author_name":"Harsh Banwait","author_image":{"dimensions":{"width":600,"height":399},"alt":null,"copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/e83ff690-b20c-4d88-a2b6-57e562558cd6_download.png?auto=compress,format"},"_meta":{"uid":"harsh-banwait"}},"_meta":{"uid":"new-droplet-console-ssh-support"}},"featured_blog_3":{"__typename":"PRISMIC_Blog","_linkType":"Link.document","blog_header_image":{"dimensions":{"width":790,"height":400},"alt":null,"copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/588e28d3-d41e-480b-937b-8c3b19201f6e_DODX3568-790x400-Blog.jpg?auto=compress,format"},"blog_headline":[{"type":"heading1","text":"How to scale your SaaS product without breaking the bank","spans":[]}],"blog_post_date":"2021-06-22","blog_post_content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":"These days, if you are in the business of software, chances are you are delivering or plan to deliver your services using a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model. 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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. Centra provides a powerful e-commerce backend that lets brands build pixel-perfect, custom designed, online flagship stores. \n\n“How do we enable our customers to create differentiated online experiences? How do we ensure their e-commerce apps stay up and running at all times? How do we scale on-demand when traffic grows or new customers come in? These are the questions that we ask ourselves every day. Thankfully, we have a partner in DigitalOcean that provides just the platform to answer those questions enabling us to guarantee 99.9% uptime for our clients.” - Martin Jensen, CEO of Centra","spans":[{"start":0,"end":6,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://centra.com/"}},{"start":233,"end":673,"type":"em"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"These are just a few examples of SaaS businesses finding success on DigitalOcean. We are constantly amazed by the creativity and innovation that software builders are utilizing our platform for. If you are interested in learning more about product updates, technical deep-dives and best practices for building SaaS products and businesses, please contact us to learn how we can help you get started. ","spans":[{"start":340,"end":357,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/migrate/?utmmedium=blog","target":"_blank"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Come build with DigitalOcean!","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Looking to migrate your SaaS to DigitalOcean? 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Most notably, the header contains a procedure identifier (e.g,. \"start domain\"), the type of request (e.g., `call` or `reply`), and a unique serial number used to correlate RPC calls with their respective responses. The payload following the header is XDR encoded providing an architecture-agnostic method for describing strict data types.","spans":[{"start":271,"end":299,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://libvirt.org/internals/rpc.html"}},{"start":646,"end":649,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4506"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"go-libvirt is a Go package which provides a pure Go interface to libvirt. go-libvirt can be used in conjunction with go-qemu to manage VMs by proxying communication through the libvirt daemon.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"go-libvirt exploits the availability of the RPC protocol to communicate with libvirt without the need for cgo and C bindings. While using the libvirt's C bindings would be easier up front, we try to avoid cgo when possible. Dave Cheney has written an excellent blog post which mirrors many of our own findings. A pure Go library simplifies our build pipelines, reduces dependency headaches, and keeps cross-compilation simple.","spans":[{"start":261,"end":270,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://dave.cheney.net/2016/01/18/cgo-is-not-go"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"By circumventing the C library, we need to keep a close eye on changes in new libvirt releases; libvirt developers may modify the RPC protocol at any time, potentially breaking go-libvirt. 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Yes, yes it does. And now you can confirm this with a simple click of your mouse.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Today, we're introducing our new acoustic monitoring feature called CloudSound. CloudSound brings the ambient, meditative sounds of datacenters to the DO control panel. Users can now spin up Droplets to the calming hum of their servers running in the background.","spans":[{"start":68,"end":78,"type":"strong"}]},{"type":"image","url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/84c92bcfaf81a8501db71547a03faa3125e6c906_listen.png?auto=compress,format","alt":null,"copyright":null,"dimensions":{"width":1052,"height":486}},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We understand that the move from bare metal to the cloud can cause some anxiety. In the past, you knew your server was working because you could hear it working. Now? Only a deafening silence. 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DigitalOcean is currently hiring people to work in our datacenters; experience CloudSound all the time!","spans":[{"start":69,"end":101,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/company/careers/"}}]}],"blog_post_date":"2016-03-31","tags":[{"tag1":{"tag":"Community","_linkType":"Link.document","_meta":{"uid":"community"}}}],"_meta":{"uid":"introducing-cloudsound"}}},{"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":null,"blog_headline":[{"type":"heading1","text":"Update on the March 24, 2016 DNS Outage","spans":[]}],"blog_post_content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":"Yesterday, DigitalOcean's DNS infrastructure was unavailable for two hours and four minutes. During this time we were only able to respond to a small fraction of the DNS requests sent to ns1, ns2, and ns3.digitalocean.com. We know how much you rely on DigitalOcean, and we take the availability and reliability of our services very seriously. We would like to apologize and share more details about our DNS system in general, this specific attack, and what we are doing to make our systems more resilient from here on.","spans":[{"start":166,"end":169,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System"}}]},{"type":"heading2","text":"Some background","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The resolvers which compose our authoritative DNS infrastructure are fronted by a well-known DDoS mitigation company. The service they offer uses anycast to move traffic from clients all across the world to DigitalOcean's nearest datacenter. We then have authoritative resolvers in all of our facilities to process and respond to DNS queries. One of the most significant advantages to this approach is it allows for simple load distribution across our global footprint and makes it easy to add more resolvers to deal with increased capacity needs.","spans":[{"start":146,"end":153,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anycast"}}]},{"type":"heading2","text":"The incident","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"At 2:34 pm UTC (10:34 am EDT) on March 24, 2016, we began to receive alerts from our monitoring system that all the resolvers were failing to respond to DNS queries. As we investigated the issue, we noticed that the resolvers were receiving orders of magnitude more queries than normal. Although there was significantly more capacity available than is required during typical peak operation, it was still not enough to answer this unusually large quantity of inbound queries. We started to take a closer look at the queries which were being sent to the resolvers in an attempt to differentiate normal traffic from that of a bad actor. The traffic patterns and source IP addresses matched what we would expect — just at much larger volumes than normal. You can see uncached (the yellow line) and cached traffic (the green line) below.","spans":[]},{"type":"image","url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/7021c1cd69e69f37e271338c8536ca9dba0c7f5d_image01.png?auto=compress,format","alt":null,"copyright":null,"dimensions":{"width":1886,"height":1190}},{"type":"paragraph","text":"At this point, our DDoS mitigation provider was engaged. All of our DNS traffic flows through their network, which has numerous protections in place to both identify and mitigate attacks. However, neither of us were able to find anything abnormal about this traffic beyond its volume at that point.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Our DNS daemon was configured to empty the queue of unanswered queries at a certain threshold to ensure the daemon would be able to answer future inbound queries. This inadvertently caused cache invalidation. We rolled out a new configuration that solved this issue, but the caches failed to repopulate. Although the system can withstand all the resolvers losing their query caches under normal conditions, the vastly increased number of queries made it impossible for the resolvers to rebuild their cache. This all took place while the resolvers were already under abnormally high load, causing them further stress.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"At this point, we further engaged with our DDoS mitigation provider to help identify the source and types of traffic and recognized a higher-than-normal percentage of queries for PTR records. We began blocking them to allow us to respond to other queries. They were also able to reduce the number of queries reaching our resolvers by blocking some autonomous system numbers (ASNs) from which the most significant volumes of traffic were originating. Finally, we increased the TTL for cached DNS records, which is the length of time for which the edge caches responses before allowing new queries to hit the origin resolvers. As we looked through the traffic to find patterns, it became clear that the attacker knew a large number of domains managed with our DNS infrastructure. All of our public subnets are available via ARIN, which means it's possible to find domains which are hosted on our service, infer they are using our DNS, and then send large volumes of legitimate-looking queries. Although the ASN blocking certainly prevented some legitimate DNS lookups from being answered, it almost immediately allowed the system to begin answering most queries.","spans":[{"start":348,"end":373,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_system_(Internet)"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The service began responding to queries with normal latencies starting at 4:40 pm UTC (12:40 pm EDT). Caches began to repopulate and query volume returned to normal levels. At 5:30 pm UTC (1:30 pm EDT), the vast majority of traffic ingressing to our resolvers was clean. In the first graph below, it's possible to see the dramatic increase in query cache hit rate as the service begins to recover.","spans":[]},{"type":"image","url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/8eef2a4c1fdb6a094823ab50b19765cb7c6a7fa9_image02.png?auto=compress,format","alt":null,"copyright":null,"dimensions":{"width":1094,"height":472}},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The graph below shows SERVFAILs in green, 50th percentile latencies between the edge and our resolvers in blue, and 90th percentile latencies in yellow.","spans":[]},{"type":"image","url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/b0db6aabe0d8ae40a9fbc08c1c11a98f935390de_image03.png?auto=compress,format","alt":null,"copyright":null,"dimensions":{"width":1764,"height":236}},{"type":"paragraph","text":"At 7:22 pm UTC (3:22 pm EDT), the majority of the filtering was removed.","spans":[]},{"type":"heading2","text":"Future measures","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"There are a number of pieces of infrastructure we are reviewing and improving. Most notably, we will be building better means of moving DNS traffic around within our infrastructure. One of the things which caused this incident to span two hours was the lack of control we had over the traffic which was reaching our network. Although we'll continue to work with the DDoS mitigation provider, we will also be improving our own DNS network by creating means to internally move, rate limit, and shape traffic in order to continue to respond to most requests even while under attack. We already have robust tooling in place for mitigating attacks on the Droplet network and will extend that to support DNS as well.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We will be decoupling the provisioning of additional capacity from the DDoS mitigation provider entirely. External communications with our DDoS mitigation provider meant that we had a fairly constant back-and-forth during the incident, making it harder for us to test mitigation techniques on our own. They transparently send through requests to the resolvers, which means our ability to provision more resolver capacity is dependent upon the provider's speed of response. This caused adding additional nodes to the pool to take much longer than is ideal, which subsequently slowed our return to normal operation. We're planning to change how we present our network to the proxies run by our DDoS mitigation provider to make dynamically changing the capacity of the pool easier.","spans":[]},{"type":"heading2","text":"In Conclusion","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"First and foremost, we know that our service is critical in the success of your projects and businesses. All of us at DigitalOcean would like to apologize for the impact of this outage. We will continue to analyze this incident, hone our internal communications, and take steps to improve the reliability and resilience of the systems which power DigitalOcean.","spans":[]}],"blog_post_date":"2016-03-23","tags":[{"tag1":{"tag":"News","_linkType":"Link.document","_meta":{"uid":"news"}}}],"_meta":{"uid":"update-on-the-march-24-2016-dns-outage"}}},{"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":784,"height":418},"alt":"DO is coming to india","copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/fe06d0c8-d583-42c6-8b4c-2a3643f04681_hero.jpg?auto=compress,format"},"blog_headline":[{"type":"heading1","text":"Announcing the Home of our Next Data Center: Bangalore, India","spans":[]}],"blog_post_content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":"Tomorrow morning, India Standard Time, our COO Karl will announce our newest data center region at SURGE conference in Bangalore, India's central tech hub and the place where we plan to power up our next facility this summer.","spans":[{"start":99,"end":104,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://surgeconf.com/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Developers throughout India and the neighboring regions have been with us since the very beginning of DigitalOcean and as early as June 2013 have been urging us to come to India. We are proud to already have amazing Indian startups like KartRocket, NoBroker.in, and Flipkart among our customers today. For two years in a row, we have sponsored GopherConIndia and have had the pleasure to meet Indian developers there.","spans":[{"start":164,"end":177,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digitalocean/suggestions/4135044-india-datacenter"}},{"start":237,"end":247,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.kartrocket.com/"}},{"start":249,"end":260,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"http://nobroker.in/"}},{"start":266,"end":274,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"http://www.flipkart.com/"}},{"start":344,"end":358,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://twitter.com/digitalocean/status/701038995845713920"}}]},{"type":"image","url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/367db1a410786cd84c448e76f9681e1491ff45e6_gophercon.jpg?auto=compress,format","alt":"GopherConIndia","copyright":null,"dimensions":{"width":563,"height":422}},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Look at what we spotted at GopherConIndia just last week – a Hacktoberfest 2015 T-shirt! And it wasn't the only one.","spans":[{"start":0,"end":116,"type":"em"},{"start":27,"end":41,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"http://www.gophercon.in/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We are inspired by the entrepreneurial energy and the incredible pace of innovation here. The number of software developers throughout India will grow to over 5 million by the year 2018. Last year there were thousands of startups throughout India, and the number is projected to triple by 2020!","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"By opening a new data center in the region, we're hoping to further facilitate innovation and collaboration for developer teams. The data center will be equipped with our most up-to-date hardware and network architecture, and it will be among the first to have access to our newest products coming out this year.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We are truly excited to be coming to India, and look forward to hearing feedback on how we can best serve the community. If you are at SURGE, make sure to drop by our developers' lounge. If not, reach out to us in the comments or on Twitter any time. And remember to subscribe to the request on UserVoice in order to get updated when the data center launches!","spans":[{"start":233,"end":240,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://twitter.com/digitalocean"}},{"start":280,"end":304,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digitalocean/suggestions/4135044-india-datacenter"}}]}],"blog_post_date":"2016-02-21","tags":[{"tag1":{"tag":"News","_linkType":"Link.document","_meta":{"uid":"news"}}}],"_meta":{"uid":"announcing-the-home-of-our-next-datacenter"}}},{"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":420},"alt":"city skyline with sunset and text 'Introducing TOR1'","copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/780c928cbe5e8daa734e4b316f4b9a25c025a593_tor1_blog.png?auto=compress,format"},"blog_headline":[{"type":"heading1","text":"Introducing Our New Canadian Datacenter: TOR1","spans":[]}],"blog_post_content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":"Today, we're excited to announce the launch of our first Canadian datacenter in beautiful Toronto!","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"It's hard to deny that the Canadian startup ecosystem has been booming. There are nearly half a million software developers throughout Canada, and we at DigitalOcean have always felt lots of love from the Canadian developer community. Today we're excited to send some love back their way as we proudly open the doors to our Canadian datacenter, TOR1. Universe, a platform for people to discover and create events based in Toronto, is already a DigitalOcean customer. We are excited to help them expand their business in Canada.","spans":[{"start":351,"end":359,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.universe.com/home"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"This was a highly requested location. Each hypervisor comes equipped with 40GbE networking and the latest model of SSDs.","spans":[{"start":11,"end":36,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digitalocean/suggestions/3554083-canadian-datacenter"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Because all of these Droplets will be physically in Canada, if your business needs to keep data in the Great White North, you'll now be able to do that. DigitalOcean is committed to upholding the highest standards in privacy and security, and TOR1 enables us to extend those protections to our customers' customers.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"To celebrate the TOR1 launch with our friends in Canada, we'll be hosting events throughout October. Save the dates for your cities: Toronto (Oct 13-15), Vancouver (Oct 20-22), and Montreal (Oct 28 - 29). The official event details will be added to this post soon.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Head over to the Droplet create page or use the API to spin up a maple-flavored Droplet in TOR1 today!","spans":[{"start":17,"end":36,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://cloud.digitalocean.com/droplets/new"}},{"start":40,"end":51,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://developers.digitalocean.com/documentation/v2/#create-a-new-droplet"}}]}],"blog_post_date":"2015-09-22","tags":[{"tag1":{"tag":"News","_linkType":"Link.document","_meta":{"uid":"news"}}}],"_meta":{"uid":"introducing-our-new-canadian-datacenter-tor1"}}},{"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":784,"height":418},"alt":"Sunset over ocean with fish jumping over the text 'Thank you!' illustration","copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/ead0daf7acfebeee9c21c3c8759797106654db2a_thank_you.jpg?auto=compress,format"},"blog_headline":[{"type":"heading1","text":"Series B Funding: Writing a New Chapter in the DigitalOcean Story","spans":[]}],"blog_post_content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":"For over three years, we've been driven by the desire to empower developers and make cloud infrastructure simple. To date, over 500,000 developers have deployed more than 6 million Droplets on DigitalOcean and as the infrastructure needs of our developer community have continued to evolve, we have aspired to as well.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Today, we're excited to announce that we've closed a Series B funding round worth $83 million, led by Access Industries with participation from Andreessen Horowitz. This funding represents our continued commitment to helping developers thrive and to help scaling startups grow on our infrastructure.","spans":[]},{"type":"heading3","text":"Scaling","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We've experienced many of the growing pains that come with turning into a scalable business. In 2011, our five founders wanted to create a simple infrastructure experience that developers would love to use. In 2012, TechStars accepted us into their Boulder class; we set up shop in Colorado that summer and graduated the program with our first 400 customers.","spans":[]},{"type":"image","url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/8285e1a0c09ab58da49745359130542415501aac_the_beginning.jpg?auto=compress,format","alt":"TechStars","copyright":null,"dimensions":{"width":564,"height":396}},{"type":"paragraph","text":"TechStars 2012","spans":[{"start":0,"end":14,"type":"em"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The early DigitalOcean adopters had only two choices of datacenter regions (New York and Amsterdam) on a cloud that was maintained and operated on just a few servers.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Since then, a lot has changed. We've raised a seed round and Series A which we used to build out servers in six locations (New York, London, Singapore, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, and San Francisco), added features like user data, IPv6, private networking, team account management, and updated our Community platform. Our hardware footprint expanded, the complexity of our system deepened, and the technological challenges we faced grew. A cloud that once ran on six servers now is powered by over ten thousand.","spans":[{"start":292,"end":301,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/community"}}]},{"type":"heading3","text":"Growing Together","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Since our outset, we have loved to see the variety of amazing work hosted on DigitalOcean, from single-server hacks created overnight at hackathons to innovative applications which serve millions of happy users.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"As developers and entrepreneurs ourselves, we've seen how quickly a company can grow. That same single-server app, gone viral on Hacker News, can transition from a personal project to a full-fledged business. We want to make that transition effortless and raised this Series B to continue supporting individual developers further on in their journey.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"How? The $83 million is going directly into growing our team and expanding our product offerings with networking and storage features. When we started, we felt the pain points of developers who had to contend with questions on how to spin up a single server rather than being able to focus on their applications. We solved this by providing developers with a simple and intuitive control panel. Now, by learning from our own company's growth, we're focused on addressing developers' challenges as they grow; spinning up a server should be simple, but so should creating a production environment to handle load at any scale.","spans":[{"start":44,"end":60,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/company/careers/"}}]},{"type":"heading3","text":"Thank You!","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We are extraordinarily indebted to the amazing people who have personally made all of this possible.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Thank you to the DigitalOcean family for building and supporting this cloud with your signature love, creativity, passion, and hard work!","spans":[{"start":17,"end":36,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/company/about/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Thank you to our investors, IA Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, and Access Industries for believing in our vision.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Last but certainly not least, we would like to thank you, our community! Thank you for growing with us and for challenging us to be better every day. We wouldn't be here without you.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Here's to writing this new chapter together!","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"DigitalOcean HQ 2015","spans":[{"start":0,"end":20,"type":"em"}]},{"type":"image","url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/0470fe0347edc7a6a3342eb5940af5300b213e5b_the_team.jpg?auto=compress,format","alt":"DigitalOcean HQ","copyright":null,"dimensions":{"width":2000,"height":1333}}],"blog_post_date":"2015-07-07","tags":[{"tag1":{"tag":"News","_linkType":"Link.document","_meta":{"uid":"news"}}}],"_meta":{"uid":"series-b-funding-writing-a-new-chapter-in-the-digitalocean-story"}}},{"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":784,"height":418},"alt":"stack javascript.com","copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/3cdeeb9a-1675-4b14-bd12-1c3cfd01c8b1_guest-post-javascript-com.jpg?auto=compress,format"},"blog_headline":[{"type":"heading1","text":"Guest Post: Behind the Stack of JavaScript.com","spans":[]}],"blog_post_content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":"This morning at Code School we released JavaScript.com, a free community resource that serves two purposes: to provide a starting point to learn JavaScript, and to keep JavaScript developers up to date with the latest news, frameworks, and libraries.","spans":[{"start":16,"end":27,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.codeschool.com/"}},{"start":40,"end":54,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"http://javascript.com"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Since the purpose of JavaScript.com is to teach everyone about web development, I couldn't resist this opportunity to spread a little knowledge about the site's deployment process. In this article, I thought I'd give a peek behind the curtain to show you the stack we're using and why we're hosting with DigitalOcean.","spans":[]},{"type":"heading2","text":"How Does JavaScript.com Work?","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"JavaScript.com is developed in JavaScript, of course. We chose Node.js for its speed, ease of use, and community support. But that's not telling the whole story.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We don't want every web request to make it all the way to our application servers, since that would strain them unnecessarily. So, before any web request makes it to the application, it passes through several layers that help offload and balance the traffic between multiple servers.","spans":[]},{"type":"heading2","text":"Content Delivery & Caching","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The first destination on your request's journey is CloudFlare. We've been experimenting with CloudFlare for some time at Code School, as both a security and extra caching layer. If CloudFlare sees a request for a static page that's been generated recently, it will return that page from one of its data centers rather than asking our application servers to regenerate the page. The sort of page and asset caching CloudFlare provides works extremely well with a read-heavy site like JavaScript.com. After all, the best kind of cached request never even hits your server.","spans":[]},{"type":"heading2","text":"Load Balancing","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"After CloudFlare, any uncached request will go through one of two load balancers running HAProxy. These load balancers allow us to quickly add new application servers to the mix as the load increases. A lone HAProxy process can service many millions of requests per day, so we run only two of them: one to serve requests from the Internet, and one on standby, ready to take over if the hot server fails. This is called a \"hot standby\" configuration.","spans":[]},{"type":"heading2","text":"Application Servers","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Finally, HAProxy routes the request down to our NGINX and Phusion Passenger stack. NGINX is a web server that handles static requests (like images), while Phusion Passenger manages our Node processes and dynamic requests (like the comments page) from within NGINX. We really enjoy Passenger on the DevOps side of things since it makes Node process management dead simple.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"All of these application servers are designed to run independently from one another. So, we can fire up as many as we need of each type to handle whatever traffic we see on JavaScript.com.","spans":[]},{"type":"heading2","text":"Database Servers","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"In order to save all those stories and comments, JavaScript.com uses the PostgreSQL database. It is an extremely quick and reliable piece of software that we use across Code School for a variety of applications.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The database always gets its own server, along with a spare, should the main server ever go down. As a bonus, a PostgreSQL hot spare can be used by the JavaScript.com application as a read-only database should the main server fall under too much load.","spans":[]},{"type":"heading2","text":"One Command to Deploy Them All","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"JavaScript.com is made up of a minimum of six servers: two load balancers, two application servers, and two database servers. Since we want to be able to scale out at a moment's notice, we need a way to spin up new servers quickly and automatically. Enter SaltStack and DigitalOcean.","spans":[]},{"type":"image","url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/4413289e7896aff6e20f3f97813062020413c3cf_stack-of-javascript-com.png?auto=compress,format","alt":"Javascript.com","copyright":null,"dimensions":{"width":745,"height":460}},{"type":"paragraph","text":"SaltStack is a configuration management system for servers that lets us configure the following:","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Deploy a new DigitalOcean server","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Configure the server to run JavaScript.com","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Grant access to the database servers","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Add the new server to the load balancer so it can start handling requests","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"It finishes this provisioning process for a new server in just a few minutes. Our process for code deployments is exactly the same, since SaltStack knows how to ship new code to existing servers as well.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"In order to scale out horizontally, we needed a provider that not only spins up servers very quickly, but can also do so programmatically. DigitalOcean works very well on both fronts, and in multiple locations around the world. If we end up with more traffic than expected, more capacity is just a salt-cloud command away.","spans":[]},{"type":"heading2","text":"Conclusion","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"To create a website that's ready to handle a great deal of traffic, you need a detailed plan. Not only do you need a caching layer, but you must also be able to spin up new servers quickly as more uncacheable requests flow in. The first step in this process is separating your stack into layers so that each can scale independently. The second is making use of tools like HAProxy, SaltStack, and DigitalOcean to bring it all together.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Now that you've read about JavaScript.com's stack, go try it — and feel free to promote your own stack, framework, or library on our community news page.","spans":[{"start":27,"end":41,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"http://javascript.com"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"by Thomas Meeks","spans":[{"start":3,"end":15,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://twitter.com/codeschool"}}]}],"blog_post_date":"2015-06-15","tags":[{"tag1":{"tag":"Community","_linkType":"Link.document","_meta":{"uid":"community"}}}],"_meta":{"uid":"guest-post-behind-the-stack-of-javascript-com"}}},{"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":null,"blog_headline":[{"type":"heading1","text":"Update on CVE-2015-3456, aka the VENOM Security Vulnerability","spans":[]}],"blog_post_content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":"Earlier today, CVE-2015-3456, a security vulnerability also known as VENOM was publicly announced. This bug in KVM/QEMU, our virtualization environment, could potentially exploit a VM's virtual floppy driver as described in detail here and here. DigitalOcean has conducted a thorough audit of our platform and taken steps to mitigate the issue.","spans":[{"start":231,"end":235,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://access.redhat.com/articles/1444903"}},{"start":240,"end":244,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2608-1/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"On hypervisors running the latest version of our cloud, the QEMU process is confined by a mandatory access control profile which would prevent a would-be attacker from accessing the host system or other Droplets. We are rolling out updates across all of our infrastructure to ensure the latest QEMU security patches are applied on each server. In addition, we have implemented a number of other security and monitoring features in order to provide early warning of attempts to exploit similar vulnerabilities.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"In order to complete the process of applying the security patches, a small number of our hypervisors will require a reboot. Our team is currently working to schedule this in the least disruptive manner possible. We will keep you posted on our progress.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"If you have any additional questions, please reach out to our support team:","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"https://cloud.digitalocean.com/support","spans":[{"start":0,"end":38,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://cloud.digitalocean.com/support"}}]}],"blog_post_date":"2015-05-12","tags":[{"tag1":{"tag":"Engineering","_linkType":"Link.document","_meta":{"uid":"engineering"}}}],"_meta":{"uid":"update-on-cve-2015-3456"}}}]}}}