{"componentChunkName":"component---src-templates-tag-jsx","path":"/blog/tag/news/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":"<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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A combination of internet-based delivery, subscription-based pricing, and low-friction product experiences have made SaaS solutions valuable tools for their users, and an excellent vehicle for software builders looking to distribute their products.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"These factors have made SaaS solutions ubiquitous; SaaS is the largest segment in the public cloud market, and is used to provide functionality ranging from personal finance apps for consumers, to productivity software for businesses, and even tools and services for software developers themselves to compose their applications and simplify their workflows. It is also not uncommon to find micro-SaaS applications being built for specific industries such as retail, job functions such as accounting or marketing, or tasks such as event management. 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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. That is exactly what we have been able to enable through our intuitive products that are built for scale and reliability.","spans":[{"start":205,"end":223,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/products/"}}]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Vidazoo is an advertising technology company specializing in video streaming and serving. It serves video ads to thousands of websites and handles close to 10 billion requests per day. \n\n“We are as much a data company as an adtech company. Our business relies on speedy and accurate data processing at massive scale. DigitalOcean provides us the perfect set of tools to operate our SaaS business profitably, while not making us feel the need to become full time system administrators. 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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Today, I am very excited to announce that Mark Templeton will be joining us as DigitalOcean’s new CEO.","spans":[{"start":20,"end":38,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://blog.digitalocean.com/onwardandupwardtogether/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We were looking for a leader who could scale our operations, evolve our go-to-market strategy, and help us reach our audacious vision of becoming every developer’s cloud platform of choice when deploying software. After spending time with Mark, I knew that he was the perfect fit for us.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"From 2001 to 2015, he served as president and CEO of Citrix Systems. While at Citrix, Mark helped grow the business from $15 million in revenue with one product, one customer segment, and one go-to-market path to a global industry leader with more than 100 million users and annual revenue of over $3 billion. He joined the company prior to its initial public offering and served in a leadership capacity throughout his 20-plus years with the organization. Under his leadership, Citrix earned multiple “best places to work” awards and Mark himself was honored with several awards including a coveted spot on Glassdoor’s Highest Rated CEOs list in 2013.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"When I asked him what he saw in DigitalOcean, he replied that he was inspired by our unique position in the market and focus on delivering simplicity at scale. He went on to talk about our incredible team, happy customers, and what perfect timing it was to make an enormous impact on the industry. He compared the opportunity to his early days at Citrix — when the company had a singular focus on offering the best remote access technology in the world. That focus was the seed of the Citrix vision of a virtual workplace, inspired by the deep belief that work was not a place.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Mark believes we have an incredible opportunity to serve tens of millions of developers and the digital-first businesses they go on to create. He shares our focus on simplicity and supports our efforts to ensure our cloud is an enabler for a future that accelerates software development and inspires innovation among our customers. Mark will help DigitalOcean operate and scale to a whole new level while doubling down on our strategy to be the world’s simplest cloud experience.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We are so fortunate to gain a leader with Mark’s experience, talent, and vision. DigitalOcean is at an inflection point and we’ve laid the groundwork together for this rocket ship to soar. We now have a $200 million run rate and a community that is more than 3.5 million developers strong. As we enter into our next chapter, I am confident Mark is the right leader to inspire and scale our team, accelerate our business, and most importantly, uphold our commitment to our customers and the developer community at large.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Please join us in welcoming Mark on what promises to be an exciting journey!","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Ben Uretsky","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Co-Founder, DigitalOcean","spans":[]}],"blog_post_date":"2018-06-20","tags":[{"tag1":{"tag":"News","_linkType":"Link.document","_meta":{"uid":"news"}}}],"_meta":{"uid":"the-next-wave-digitaloceans-new-ceo"}}},{"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":"GDPR lock and EU stars illustration","copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/e14514bbef8658da8b50cfae97309915a8d368fc_gdpr_blog.png?auto=compress,format"},"blog_headline":[{"type":"heading1","text":"GDPR is Here, and We've Got You Covered","spans":[]}],"blog_post_content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":"Today, the new European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) goes into effect. 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We also do not believe that we will need to reboot our entire fleet of hypervisors, as was necessary to mitigate impact from the initial Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities. However, there is a remote potential for exploit and we are working with Intel to validate microcode to patch for the vulnerabilities. We are accelerating the fix, but applying these updates takes coordination and time.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Our security and engineering teams are monitoring our hypervisors and following this issue closely. We remain in communication with our contacts at Intel regarding any new developments. The security of our users’ data is one of our highest priorities, and we are ready to take action if and when appropriate. 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This February we asked 5,993 participants about their thoughts on hot topics like artificial intelligence and machine learning, new ways of working with codebases and services like continuous integration and delivery, and important issues like the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the FCC’s decision on net neutrality.","spans":[{"start":333,"end":374,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/20/wtf-is-gdpr/"}},{"start":383,"end":415,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.wired.com/story/after-fcc-vote-net-neutrality-fight-moves-to-courts-congress/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Among our findings this quarter:","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Developers in the US are strongly against the repeal of net neutrality with 83% saying they believe the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) made the wrong decision. 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The United Kingdom saw the most engagement at 70%.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"DigitalOcean Currents is published quarterly, highlighting the latest trends among developers.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"If you would like to be among the first to receive Currents each quarter, sign up here. You’ll receive the latest report once it is released, share your ideas on what topics we should cover, and participate in our next survey.","spans":[{"start":74,"end":86,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"http://do.co/getcurrents"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Read more about these and other findings in the full report. 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We are rapidly approaching $200M in annual recurring revenue and are looking forward to celebrating our 6th anniversary next month. The key to our success is our disruptive offering — a cloud computing platform that is engineered with simplicity at the core — and our vibrant, growing developer community. We see a substantial and growing market need, and believe that DigitalOcean is perfectly positioned to lead this category in the years ahead.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"While we have enjoyed great success since I co-founded the company in 2012, I believe we have barely scratched the surface. I’ve been reflecting on our next phase of growth and what it will take to reach our full potential, and it’s become clear to me that now is the right time to identify my successor as CEO of DigitalOcean.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"I recognize where my strengths lie and where others will have more experience to give. With all of the exciting opportunities in front of us, including the possibility of an IPO — a long-term goal we have frequently discussed internally — I feel a new seasoned executive will be best to guide the company through the next chapter of our journey. We have engaged a leading search firm to help us find a great leader. One that will be inspirational, able to scale our operations beyond 1,000 people, evolve our go-to-market strategy, and help us reach our audacious vision. Someone who can build a global brand that could potentially help us become a publicly-traded company with the simplest cloud platform for developers to run applications of any size.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Once we’ve identified this person, I’ll be taking on a new role as Chairman of the Board, which will allow me to support our company vision and strategy while working closely with the new CEO.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"When Moisey, Mitch, Alec, Jeff, and I started the company in 2012, we left our families and friends in New York to join the Techstars program in Colorado. We slept on bunk beds and worked relentlessly pretty much every day until midnight. Finding product-market fit didn’t happen overnight and it took months of iterating and refining our product offering. We had 400 users when we graduated from the Techstars program, and while we knew we had developed something special, trying to raise venture capital at that time was a real uphill battle. We heard many “no’s” from investors along the way, but believed in our long-term vision.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"After returning to a small office in New York City, we launched the first SSD virtual machine service with unprecedented price-to-performance on January 15th, 2013. We instantly went from signing up a couple of new users per day to more than 100. I vividly remember sitting at our kitchen table with the co-founding team, having to manually install SSDs into our servers to keep up with the demand. It’s been a humbling journey to say the least, and I could not have imagined the growth, success, and scale we would achieve only five years later. DigitalOcean has accomplished so many incredible things over the years and I know that our product, people, and operations have never been stronger.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Aug 9, 2012 - Mitch, Alec, Moisey, me and Jeff walking on stage for Techstars demo day","spans":[]},{"type":"image","url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/935995c0c9d0359ffca3dccb6b5395f0bb745e7b_image.png?auto=compress,format","alt":null,"copyright":null,"dimensions":{"width":960,"height":960}},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We have raised $123M from some of the world’s leading VCs that share our belief that the developer will lead the continuing technology revolution. Today, we have a team of 400-plus employees around the world with growing offices in New York, Cambridge, Mass., and Bangalore. Our user base has grown with us and last year we crossed one million users from almost every country in the world. Over the last few years, our product went from a single offering, Droplet, to a complete cloud platform. We are extremely proud to be one of the largest and fastest-growing cloud providers in the world.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"I’ve always said that putting the business first and doing what is right for DigitalOcean is my highest priority. I’m making this decision knowing that DigitalOcean’s best days are still to come. We have never been in a better position to begin this transition. We have a great leadership team in place, the business has very strong momentum, and we are a clear leader in our industry. I’m confident that our new CEO will be able to rapidly build on this strong foundation.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"No matter who our next leader is, one thing that definitely won’t change is our unwavering commitment to delivering the industry’s simplest cloud computing platform, while building one of the world’s largest developer communities. All of the core elements that have contributed to our success — the powerful simplicity of the product, the dedication and talent of the team, and the passionate community of developers that we serve — will remain the same.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"I am tremendously excited about DigitalOcean’s future and the milestones ahead. I want to thank everyone who has helped turn our dream and passion into reality. The skills I have learned and friendships I have made while helping to build this company will last me a lifetime, for which I will be forever grateful and I couldn’t be more excited for the journey ahead.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Onward and upward together,","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Ben Uretsky","spans":[]}],"blog_post_date":"2018-02-22","tags":[{"tag1":{"tag":"News","_linkType":"Link.document","_meta":{"uid":"news"}}}],"_meta":{"uid":"onwardandupwardtogether"}}},{"node":{"author":{"_linkType":"Link.document","author_name":"Ben Schaechter","author_image":{"dimensions":{"width":250,"height":250},"alt":"Ben Schaechter","copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/27dfbed4bc6fa68e0e2818d9c0f6065c21505b36_d9e56499ba79cfdd200bb4a6220f15f1.png?auto=compress,format"},"_meta":{"uid":"ben_schaechter"}},"blog_header_image":{"dimensions":{"width":1568,"height":836},"alt":"stack illustration","copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/8f3cf146215e893ee72cafadd73a1b3d716555a9_kickingoffnewyear-dropletspricing-blog2-1.png?auto=compress,format"},"blog_headline":[{"type":"heading1","text":"Kicking Off the New Year with New Droplet Plans","spans":[]}],"blog_post_content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":"July 10, 2018 UPDATE: In order to provide a transition period, 1st Generation Droplet plans will continue to be available via the API using the legacy size slugs. We will provide additional notice before their removal.","spans":[{"start":0,"end":20,"type":"strong"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"May 31, 2018 UPDATE: We’ve updated our plans. Get the latest details here.","spans":[{"start":0,"end":19,"type":"strong"},{"start":46,"end":73,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/choosing-the-right-droplet-for-your-application"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Last week, we shared our 2018 roadmap preview and today, we’re excited to announce the first of many new updates for developers: new Droplet plans. We know that price-to-performance is an important consideration when choosing where to host your application, whether it be a small side project or a large business. That is why we’re upgrading resources across our plans and introducing new plans to give you even more flexibility to choose the right Droplet for your application.","spans":[{"start":25,"end":45,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://blog.digitalocean.com/2018-whats-shipping-next-on-digitalocean/"}},{"start":129,"end":146,"type":"strong"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We have updates to share across all three classes of Droplet plans: Standard, High CPU, and High Memory Droplets. These updates are available immediately through the Cloud Control Panel and API in the majority of our datacenters. Here are the full details of the updated plans:","spans":[]},{"type":"heading3","text":"Standard Droplets","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Standard Droplet plans have always offered a healthy balance of CPU, memory, and SSD storage to get blogs, web applications, and databases off the ground. With today’s changes, we have 14 brand new Standard Plans to ensure that these applications can grow and scale as your projects grow.","spans":[{"start":198,"end":212,"type":"strong"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"These updated plans are listed below, with some before and after looks at how resources have changed at various monthly price points:","spans":[]},{"type":"image","url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/079b6092317abf87d915f2652666c0e6c6b1cb28_standard-plans-table.png?auto=compress,format","alt":"Standard Plans Table","copyright":null,"dimensions":{"width":1288,"height":1600}},{"type":"paragraph","text":"These updated Standard Droplets offer more resources for either the same or a lower price than our previous generation.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We’ve also introduced three flexible plans, all priced at $15 with varying sets of CPU and memory combinations to give you resource flexibility without worrying about price.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Finally, all original “first generation” Standard Droplet Plans are still available via the API. This will ensure any applications you host that are hard-coded for those plans aren’t negatively impacted. We intend to fully deprecate those plans on July 1, 2018 and will send more updates throughout the year. [See: July 10, 2018 update.]","spans":[]},{"type":"heading3","text":"Optimized Droplets","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"High CPU Plans were released just six months ago and we’re excited to make our first upgrades to these plans which are great for CI/CD, batch processing, and other compute-intensive workloads. We’re also renaming High CPU Droplets  “Optimized Droplets”. These Droplets are powered by dedicated resources from best-in-class Broadwell and Skylake CPUs, but now come with additional memory and local SSD disk for the same price. In the future, we’ll be looking to boost performance not only for CPU but also for memory and disk performance. The updates are shown below:","spans":[{"start":0,"end":14,"type":"strong"}]},{"type":"image","url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/4a0df1a28108a24d03b996924f9a70ecc86f5b54_performance-plans-table-2.png?auto=compress,format","alt":"Optimized Droplet Plan Pricing Table","copyright":null,"dimensions":{"width":1500,"height":780}},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Competitively, these plans line up well with similar offerings from other providers in the market. Below you can see that DigitalOcean’s Optimized Droplets are priced competitively from a price-to-performance perspective:","spans":[]},{"type":"image","url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/5f80950ac9a17571bbc1a0a695f8a438ec5f1ec5_performance-plans-table-2--2-.png?auto=compress,format","alt":"Performance Plans Comparison Table","copyright":null,"dimensions":{"width":1500,"height":932}},{"type":"paragraph","text":"High Memory Plans are being deprecated as a result of the upgrades made to Standard Plans, which come with ample amounts of RAM and SSD storage at competitive price points. The API will support High Memory Droplets created until July 1, 2018, but we recommend transitioning over to the new Standard Droplet Plans before then. (If you have an active High Memory Droplet, it will simply continue to be charged at the same rate for the duration that it remains active.)","spans":[{"start":0,"end":17,"type":"strong"}]},{"type":"heading3","text":"Coming Soon: Per-Second Billing","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We’re working hard at making continuous improvements to our billing system in order to align with changes in customer Droplet usage behavior. We’re happy to share that starting later this year, Droplets will be billed by the second instead of by the hour. This means that you’ll only be charged for exactly the amount of time you use your instance to the second. We understand it is important for customers scaling instances up and down regularly to have the best rate available and we’re happy to get this update shipped for you. Keep an eye out for a future announcement specifically on billing improvements.","spans":[]},{"type":"heading3","text":"Looking Ahead","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We understand that price-to-performance ratios are of utmost consideration when you’re choosing a hosting provider and we’re committed to being a price-to-performance leader in the market. As we continue to find ways to optimize our infrastructure we plan on passing those benefits on to you, our customers.","spans":[]},{"type":"heading3","text":"Additional Information & Helpful Links","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"DigitalOcean Pricing Plans","spans":[{"start":0,"end":26,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/"}}]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Frequently Asked Questions for New Pricing Plans","spans":[{"start":0,"end":48,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/new-droplet-plans-frequently-asked-questions"}}]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Choosing the Right Droplet for Your Application","spans":[{"start":0,"end":47,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/choosing-the-right-droplet-for-your-application"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Ben Schaechter","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Senior Product Manager, Droplet","spans":[]}],"blog_post_date":"2018-01-16","tags":[{"tag1":{"tag":"Product Updates","_linkType":"Link.document","_meta":{"uid":"product-updates"}}},{"tag1":{"tag":"News","_linkType":"Link.document","_meta":{"uid":"news"}}}],"_meta":{"uid":"new-droplet-plans"}}},{"node":{"author":{"_linkType":"Link.document","author_name":"Shiven Ramji","author_image":{"dimensions":{"width":170,"height":170},"alt":"Shiven Ramji","copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/79c5726c75adb45644613d2371026b1bb789a415_shiven_ramji-090ac31e.png?auto=compress,format"},"_meta":{"uid":"shiven_ramji"}},"blog_header_image":{"dimensions":{"width":1000,"height":533},"alt":"rocket illustration","copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/137efc25534148473a8476ffdd9870e59e3f2c1e_endofyearblogpost2017_blog_pat.png?auto=compress,format"},"blog_headline":[{"type":"heading1","text":"2018: What's Shipping Next on DigitalOcean","spans":[]}],"blog_post_content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":"Before we kick off the year with a preview of all the things we plan to bring to our customers in 2018, let’s take a moment to review all that we accomplished in the last twelve months. 2017 was an exciting build year for DigitalOcean teams. I started about a year ago as the Head of Product and the journey to date has been nothing short of amazing. In 2017, we shipped more products and features than ever before. We introduced Load Balancers, Monitoring and Alerts, Cloud Firewalls and Spaces. We extended the availability of Block Storage to Singapore (SGP1), Toronto (TOR1), Bangalore (BLR1), London (LON1), and New York (NYC3). In the summer, we introduced High CPU Droplets that deliver the best price to performance for production applications in the market. We also announced upgrades to our network, connecting all of our datacenters to create a DigitalOcean network backbone that is scalable, reliable, and performant. Above all, we welcomed our 1,000,000th user to the platform.","spans":[{"start":430,"end":444,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://blog.digitalocean.com/load-balancers-simplifying-high-availability/"}},{"start":446,"end":467,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://blog.digitalocean.com/introducing-monitoring/"}},{"start":469,"end":484,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://blog.digitalocean.com/cloud-firewalls-secure-droplets-by-default/"}},{"start":489,"end":495,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://blog.digitalocean.com/introducing-spaces-object-storage/"}},{"start":663,"end":680,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://blog.digitalocean.com/introducing-high-cpu-droplets/"}},{"start":785,"end":808,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://blog.digitalocean.com/whats-new-with-the-digitalocean-network/"}},{"start":944,"end":973,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://blog.digitalocean.com/1-million-users/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"All of the significant products mentioned above and the hundreds of features we launched are the direct result of our teams listening to feedback from our developer community. We are incredibly grateful that they continue to support us and elevate us to new heights and milestones. It is your love and feedback that drives the 400+ \"sharks\" (our employees) to come to work every day and deliver the products and services you rely on to keep your applications running in the cloud. (If you want to be a part of this amazing journey, join us—we’re hiring!)","spans":[{"start":540,"end":553,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/company/careers/"}}]},{"type":"image","url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/6af5efe48815c9b03294e65587435b13b15ec010_2017-yearinreview-inforgraphic-2.png?auto=compress,format","alt":"2017 Achievements Infographic","copyright":null,"dimensions":{"width":600,"height":1595}},{"type":"heading3","text":"2018 Product Horizon","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The Product team’s mission in 2018 is to make it simple for businesses to scale their applications in production. 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We are currently doing discovery work on Machine Learning and you can share your insights by completing this survey.","spans":[{"start":435,"end":480,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://digitalocean.getfeedback.com/r/XRqcG6Ni/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Another frequently requested feature from our customers is the ability to allow custom images on your Droplets. We are exploring ways to enable this, and you can help us by providing your input here.","spans":[{"start":173,"end":198,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://digitalocean.getfeedback.com/r/xSMuugBK"}}]},{"type":"heading4","text":"Deployment with Containers","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We have a lot of customers who use the Docker 1-click application on our platform to run and manually operate their containerized applications. We have received many requests from you to make this simple, similar to all of the products and services that we already offer. We also believe that we can do a lot more to take away the operational complexity of managing containers and have plans to support the easy deployment and management of applications using Containers to our platform. You can sign up for early access here.","spans":[{"start":39,"end":65,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/products/one-click-apps/docker/"}},{"start":508,"end":525,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://digitalocean.getfeedback.com/r/aX2TfSDM"}}]},{"type":"heading4","text":"Security and Privacy by Design","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Developers shouldn’t need to be security experts in order to have a safe application running, and we want to help make their applications and networks secure by design. We will be introducing virtual network capabilities (commonly known as Virtual Private Cloud or VPC) that will allow you to launch and operate your cloud resources in a logically isolated environment. Our goal is to make these new capabilities available to our customers with minimal interruption while building a scalable, resilient network architecture for our datacenters. We will also look to add additional security updates with our VPC releases to Cloud Firewalls and Load Balancers.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"In May, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will replace the existing EU Data Protection Directive. Our teams are working hard to make all of our services compliant by then and will share relevant updates to our Data Processing Agreement when ready. We will also share relevant updates and tools as appropriate to help our customers also be compliant with the new regulations.","spans":[{"start":12,"end":46,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/security/gdpr/"}}]},{"type":"heading4","text":"Spaces in More Regions with More Features","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We will be expanding Spaces to SFO2 and SGP1 and tuning our service to increase performance and reliability. In addition to that, we plan to add new features throughout the year such as object versioning, bucket policies (for granular permissions) and lifecycle deletion. We will soon be previewing the static sites feature with select customers and giving everyone the ability to view their bandwidth usage.","spans":[]},{"type":"heading4","text":"Developer Experience","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"At DigitalOcean, we care deeply about improving your developer experience. We want to continue to rapidly add new capabilities while holding the bar high for the simplicity and ease of use you have come to love and expect from us. To that end, we will be introducing a new Control Panel experience in Q1 specifically designed to help you more easily manage all of the infrastructure needed to run your applications. Get early access to the new experience by completing this quick survey, and we'll send an invitation when it's available.","spans":[{"start":458,"end":486,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://digitalocean.getfeedback.com/r/6oH0ELJm/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We also recognize that the developer experience extends further than the Control Panel. Success means providing you with the interfaces and information you need to quickly and easily create, operate, and scale your infrastructure, applications, and teams. In 2018, we are focused on decreasing friction during onboarding, improving the API experience, extending the capabilities of our Monitoring service, and making our documentation and tutorials even easier to access. All with an eye toward helping you focus on what matters the most: your applications.","spans":[]},{"type":"heading4","text":"Marketplace","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The Open Source Software ecosystem has led to an explosion in tool choices for developers making their workflows ever more difficult. We, as members and supporters of the Open Source Software model, believe that we can bring the community together, remove friction for developers, and create a sustainable model for monetization for Open Source tools and services. There is a large community of partners in the ecosystem who keep reaching out to us to enable them on our platform and make them available to our developer community.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"This year, we are exploring ways we can enable partners to provide their tools and services through our platform so that our customers can quickly discover, install, integrate, and operate them with their application atop of the core platform we have built. To help us navigate this complex ecosystem and do this well, we recently hired Nick Wade from Atlassian. Nick brings a wealth of knowledge from his experience building and running the Atlassian Marketplace business. We’d love to hear from you (developers and partners alike) on your specific needs, and you can do so by answering a few questions here.","spans":[{"start":337,"end":346,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.linkedin.com/in/wadenick/"}},{"start":578,"end":608,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://digitalocean.getfeedback.com/r/gcG7fxiX"}}]},{"type":"heading3","text":"Give Us Your Feedback","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The themes above are just a preview of what we are thinking about this year. It is not an exhaustive list of updates and features we plan to release. I hope you are just as excited about these as we are!","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Let's keep the dialogue going. Do you have ideas about what we should do next? Share your thoughts with us in the comments below.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Happy Coding,","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"💙 Shiv,\nVP, Product","spans":[]}],"blog_post_date":"2018-01-07","tags":[{"tag1":{"tag":"News","_linkType":"Link.document","_meta":{"uid":"news"}}}],"_meta":{"uid":"2018-whats-shipping-next-on-digitalocean"}}},{"node":{"author":{"_linkType":"Link.document","author_name":"Josh Feinblum","author_image":{"dimensions":{"width":170,"height":170},"alt":"Josh Feinblum","copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/c4c133b1c9fcb9c2688f1feeb95690fbe53b2e6b_41049-0-4.jpg?auto=compress,format"},"_meta":{"uid":"josh_feinblum"}},"blog_header_image":null,"blog_headline":[{"type":"heading1","text":"A Message About Intel Security Findings","spans":[]}],"blog_post_content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":"Update Tuesday, April 17th, 2018:","spans":[{"start":0,"end":33,"type":"em"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Today we’re excited to share that we have completed the reboot process in our NYC2 datacenter, wrapping up our Spectre and Meltdown mitigation efforts. Rebooting activity across our fleet of 12 datacenters is now complete!","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"If you experience any issues with a Droplet that was rebooted during these mitigation efforts, please refer to this Community article we posted to help you troubleshoot.","spans":[{"start":116,"end":133,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/having-application-issues-after-spectre-meltdown-reboots"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We appreciate your patience and understanding throughout the duration of this necessary maintenance.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Update Thursday, April 12, 2018:","spans":[{"start":0,"end":32,"type":"em"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We’re happy to share that today we have successfully completed reboot activity for all customer hypervisors in our AMS2 datacenter.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We anticipate completing the reboot process in our NYC2 datacenter early next week. Users can expect email notifications about the maintenance window for their impacted Droplets at least 24 hours ahead of the scheduled reboots.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The completion of reboots in our NYC2 datacenter will also mark the completion of reboots for our entire fleet, and we will share an update here as soon as this on-going maintenance is finished.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Update Tuesday, April 3, 2018:","spans":[{"start":0,"end":30,"type":"em"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We’re happy to share that today we have successfully completed reboot activity for all customer hypervisors in our SFO1 datacenter.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Next week, we are continuing reboots, with maintenance in our AMS2 and NYC2 regions. The reboot process for our entire fleet will continue over the coming weeks. Users can expect email notifications about the maintenance window for their impacted Droplets at least 24 hours ahead of the scheduled reboots.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We will continue to share progress updates here and alert our users to the completion of reboots in each of our regions as information becomes available.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Update Wednesday, March 28, 2018:","spans":[{"start":0,"end":33,"type":"em"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We’re happy to share that today we have successfully completed reboot activity for all customer hypervisors in our SGP1 and FRA1 datacenters.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We are continuing reboots in our SFO1 region, and we expect that maintenance to be completed early next week. The reboot process for our entire fleet will continue over the coming weeks. Users can expect email notifications about the maintenance window for their impacted Droplets at least 24 hours ahead of the scheduled reboots.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We will continue to share progress updates here and alert our users to the completion of reboots in each of our regions as information becomes available.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Update Friday, March 23, 2018:","spans":[{"start":0,"end":30,"type":"em"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We’re happy to share that today we have successfully completed reboot activity for all customer hypervisors in our LON1 datacenter.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Reboots in SGP1 are well underway, and next week we will also conduct them in the FRA1 and SFO1 datacenters. 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Users can expect email notifications about the maintenance window for their impacted Droplets at least 24 hours ahead of the scheduled reboots.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We will continue to share progress updates here to alert our users to the completion of reboots in each of our regions, or if new information becomes available as we work through our rebooting schedule.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Update Thursday, March 1, 2018:","spans":[{"start":0,"end":31,"type":"em"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Last week, we began rebooting Droplets in our SFO2 and BLR1 datacenters. We’re happy to share that today we successfully completed reboot activity for all customer hypervisors in the SFO2 and BLR1 datacenters. This week, we also started and finished rebooting activity in TOR1, and we are continuing to reboot Droplets in our NYC3 datacenter.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The reboot process for our entire fleet will continue over the coming weeks. 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We anticipate activity lasting for two days in BLR1 (Tuesday 2/20 and Wednesday 2/21) and three business days in SFO2 (Wednesday 2/21 through Monday, 02/26). We will continue the reboot process for our entire fleet over the coming weeks. Users can expect email notifications about the maintenance window for their impacted Droplets at least 24 hours ahead of the scheduled rebooting.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Moving forward, we will share progress updates here to alert our users to the completion of reboots in each of our regions, or if new information becomes available as we work through our rebooting schedule.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Update Friday, February 9, 2018:","spans":[{"start":0,"end":31,"type":"em"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"This week we began rebooting Droplets in our NYC1 datacenter. The maintenance is going well and we will continue the reboot process for our entire fleet over the coming weeks. Users can expect email notifications about the maintenance window for their impacted Droplets at least 24 hours ahead of the scheduled rebooting.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"While these rebooting efforts are necessary to apply the patches that mitigate the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities within DigitalOcean’s infrastructure, users should also apply patches in their Droplets to achieve complete protection. To ensure your Droplets are as secure as possible, we recommend that you follow this tutorial to protect against the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities. 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We will be starting reboots in the NYC1 region and have notified all customers who will be affected on Monday and Tuesday by email. We will continue to notify affected customers at least 24 hours in advance as we reboot their physical machines and the Droplets on them. These reboots are necessary in order to apply the patches that mitigate the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities within DigitalOcean’s infrastructure.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"In some cases, patching inside Droplets may be more critical than others. We encourage users to determine the best course of action and strongly recommend you follow the steps outlined in this article to improve your security and ensure your Droplet is running an updated kernel. 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Our Ubuntu 16.04 1-Click images have been refreshed to include the latest patches and updates.","spans":[{"start":0,"end":37,"type":"strong"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Spectre distribution updates to date: At this time only Ubuntu and CentOS have released kernel updates to address Spectre Variant 1 and they have been included in our CentOS 6 & 7 base images. Both kernels include Spectre Variant 2 fixes, however, they are not enabled on our Cloud Platform at this time.","spans":[{"start":0,"end":36,"type":"strong"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We will work as hard as possible to minimize disruption during these reboots. 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During the course of this maintenance, we will reboot physical machines and the Droplets on them.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"In some cases patching inside Droplets may be more critical than others. We encourage users to determine the best course of action and we strongly recommend you follow the steps outlined in this article to improve your security and ensure your Droplet is running an updated kernel.  We also recommend taking a backup or snapshot of critical data before making changes to a production system.","spans":[{"start":190,"end":202,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-protect-your-server-against-the-meltdown-and-spectre-vulnerabilities"}},{"start":310,"end":328,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/digitalocean-backups-and-snapshots-explained"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"If your distribution is not included in the list of patched versions listed in our January 19th update, we highly recommend you move your data to a new Droplet running a version that is receiving security updates.  To simplify the act of patching, we have recently updated Droplets to utilize a GrubLoader. On certain legacy Droplets, this may cause issues if the kernel is not upgraded.","spans":[{"start":295,"end":305,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-update-a-digitalocean-server-s-kernel"}},{"start":378,"end":386,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-protect-your-server-against-the-meltdown-and-spectre-vulnerabilities"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We will be starting reboots in NYC1 as early as Wednesday, January 31st and we will be communicating with customers in the following ways:","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Email notifications, including a list of affected Droplets, will be sent to all affected customers at least 24 hours ahead of scheduled maintenance windows.","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"We will be using our status page to communicate about any reboot-related incidents.","spans":[{"start":21,"end":32,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://status.digitalocean.com/"}}]},{"type":"list-item","text":"We will continue to share updates on this blog as we have them.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Update Friday, January 19, 2018:","spans":[{"start":0,"end":31,"type":"em"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Over the past week, our engineering team has identified and begun formal testing on a set of kernel patches that begin to mitigate all three variants. We are validating this candidate kernel with all of our major subsystems and starting to plan and test this initial round of fixes to deploy across our fleet.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We anticipate a robust testing phase over the next week to ensure these changes will not negatively impact our customers, continuing our approach of taking careful, well-informed steps towards long term resolution, rather than a string of one-off mitigation efforts.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We plan to provide our next update on Friday, January 26th. If we determine that we are able to initiate reboots sooner, we will provide an update here and e-mail affected customers directly with at least 24 hours advance notice.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"In the meantime, we encourage you to ensure your servers are as secure as possible. For more information about protecting your Droplets, you can reference this tutorial.","spans":[{"start":155,"end":168,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-protect-your-server-against-the-meltdown-and-spectre-vulnerabilities"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Meltdown distribution updates to date: CentOS 6 & 7, RancherOS, CoreOS, Debian 7, 8 & 9, Fedora 27 Atomic, Ubuntu 14.04, 16.04 & 17.10 base images have been updated. Fedora 26 & 27 have updates available, but users will have to manually update as Fedora does not have updated Cloud Images. Our Ubuntu 16.04 1-Click images have been refreshed to include the latest patches and updates.","spans":[{"start":0,"end":37,"type":"strong"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Spectre distribution updates to date: At this time only CentOS 6 and CentOS 7 have released kernel updates to address Spectre Variant 1 and have been included in our our CentOS 6 & 7 base images.","spans":[{"start":0,"end":36,"type":"strong"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Update Friday, January 12, 2018:","spans":[{"start":0,"end":31,"type":"em"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Our engineering team continues to procure and test patches as they become available and we have a significant amount of resources dedicated to this task. While numerous patches have been rolled out for Meltdown, mitigations for Spectre are still sparse and raw. Unfortunately, many distributions have not been able to roll out a full set of patches to address all 3 variants of the exploits. We will continue preliminary testing through the week of January 15th. These tests will have no customer impact, and will be focused on getting machines up and running in these new environments.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Intel released a microcode update this week, unfortunately the update was determined to cause stability issues for other Intel customers, and has since been pulled back. DigitalOcean did not apply this microcode to our fleet, and we are awaiting the release of new a microcode. Once we have the final microcode in hand, we will begin performance/regression testing to validate the update in our environment.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"As we have previously mentioned, fleet wide reboots will take place following successful testing and validation. We will communicate the reboot schedule to customers in advance of any action. In the meantime, we expect to share another update here on Friday 1/19. For more information about protecting your Droplets, you can reference this tutorial.","spans":[{"start":335,"end":348,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-protect-your-server-against-the-meltdown-and-spectre-vulnerabilities"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Meltdown distribution updates to date: CentOS 6 & 7, RancherOS, CoreOS, Debian 7, 8 & 9, Fedora 27 Atomic, Ubuntu 14.04, 16.04 & 17.10 base images have been updated. Fedora 26 & 27 have updates available, but users will have to manually update as Fedora does not have updated Cloud Images.","spans":[{"start":0,"end":38,"type":"strong"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Update Tuesday, January 9, 2018:","spans":[{"start":0,"end":31,"type":"em"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"As the ongoing security vulnerability developments evolve there are still many unknowns. Like many other cloud service providers we are participating in Linux kernel working groups, coordinating with Intel and other hardware vendors, and doing our own exhaustive research. The goal is to protect the security of our users' data and provide a long term solution instead of offering a cascade of short term fixes. That said, here is our approach based on what we know today.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"As mitigations for vulnerabilities are released, our engineering team is diligently and methodically testing each one to ensure that our customers have stability and performance when the patches are applied. We will continue this testing process for all new patches. It is difficult to estimate the timeframe we’ll need to create, debug and test them, as new patches are being rolled out sporadically, but we anticipate that the testing phase will last for at least another week. We plan to share another update this Friday, January 12th. As mentioned in our last post, we will alert customers in advance of any reboots that need to take place.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"In the meantime, we encourage you to track the patches being released on your distributions and we’ve compiled a list of distribution patches released thus far, which we will update as they become available. It’s important to note that updated distributions do have various fixes, but none have remediations for all three vulnerabilities. In order to help our users protect themselves as the patches become available, we have changed all Droplets to utilize our Grubloader kernel, ensuring that Droplet kernels can be upgraded by the user, without DigitalOcean involvement.","spans":[{"start":462,"end":479,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-update-a-digitalocean-server-s-kernel"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Meltdown distribution updates to date:\nCentOS 7, RancherOS, CoreOS, Debian 9, Fedora 27 Atomic","spans":[{"start":0,"end":38,"type":"strong"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We’ve also authored this tutorial to help you apply patches. This, too, will be updated as more information and patch releases become available.","spans":[{"start":25,"end":33,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-protect-your-server-against-the-meltdown-and-spectre-vulnerabilities"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Update Friday, January 5, 2018:","spans":[{"start":0,"end":30,"type":"em"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Our engineering team continues to remain in close coordination with Intel, Canonical, and our other vendors. We are currently awaiting patches that, once applied, should mitigate the security vulnerabilities. We expect to have those patches on Tuesday, January 9th, and will begin formal testing as soon as they are received.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"In the interim, as patches become available on the Linux kernel list and microcode updates become available from Intel and other vendors, we are doing ad-hoc testing to understand potential performance implications and evaluate stability concerns so we can execute our mitigation as smoothly as possible.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The scope of work is extensive; everything from the kernel to compilers and emulation systems must be patched and tested. We will be devoting all of our available engineering resources to this effort, but the set of changes is so significant that we cannot yet estimate the time frame needed to complete validation. The security of our customers and the reliability of our services are important to us and it is critical that we take the time to validate before we roll out changes.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We expect to post another update on Tuesday, January 9th, once we have received the patches and testing is underway. We will share updates here sooner if additional information becomes available. We appreciate your patience!","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Update Thursday, January 4, 2018:","spans":[{"start":0,"end":32,"type":"em"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Our engineering team continues to coordinate closely with Intel to determine the exact scope and impact of the Meltdown and Spectre security vulnerabilities. It is our current understanding that DigitalOcean is not vulnerable to the Meltdown (Variant 3) exploit because of our usage of KVM virtualization. However, we will still be taking the necessary steps to protect our customers from the impact of the Spectre (Variants 1 and 2) exploits.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We will be obtaining the patches necessary to mitigate the vulnerabilities and once our engineering team has validated them, we will be rebooting our entire fleet of Droplets. DigitalOcean users will also need to upgrade their own kernels, and we will be working closely with them to ensure that this process goes as smoothly as possible. Every customer will receive advanced notification before we initiate the reboots.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Original post Wednesday, January 3, 2018:","spans":[{"start":0,"end":40,"type":"em"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Earlier this week, we became aware of a potential security flaw impacting Intel hardware used by DigitalOcean and many other cloud service providers. Since learning of this issue, we have been actively investigating and tracking Linux kernel activity and our development team has been working diligently to obtain as much information as possible from Intel. Unfortunately, the strict embargo placed by Intel has significantly limited our ability to establish a comprehensive understanding of the potential impact.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Based on our investigation and the information we have received thus far, we believe that it may be necessary to reboot impacted customer Droplets. If reboots are determined to be the correct course of action for DigitalOcean users, we will schedule the urgent maintenance and notify impacted customers in advance.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We are continuing to monitor this situation and work with Intel to obtain more details. We’ll share updates in this blog post as additional information becomes available to us.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"You can read Intel’s initial statement here.","spans":[{"start":39,"end":43,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://newsroom.intel.com/news/intel-responds-to-security-research-findings/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Josh Feinblum leads security and compliance for DigitalOcean and serves as Chief Security Officer. Prior to DigitalOcean, he was the head of security at Rapid7 and started several security programs across hyper-growth, technology-oriented healthcare companies. He is deeply involved in the security community and has more than 14 years of experience managing security teams, overseeing major clients at large managed service providers, and starting privacy and security related programs across commercial and federal financial service firms.","spans":[{"start":0,"end":541,"type":"em"}]}],"blog_post_date":"2018-01-03","tags":[{"tag1":{"tag":"News","_linkType":"Link.document","_meta":{"uid":"news"}}},{"tag1":{"tag":"Trust & Security","_linkType":"Link.document","_meta":{"uid":"trust-security"}}}],"_meta":{"uid":"a-message-about-intel-security-findings"}}},{"node":{"author":{"_linkType":"Link.document","author_name":"Ryan Quinn","author_image":{"dimensions":{"width":240,"height":240},"alt":"Ryan Quinn","copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/f9ea432b5990fac0de17b009eb0c7b3f2dc6885b_pasted-image-at-2017_09_15-10_25-am.png?auto=compress,format"},"_meta":{"uid":"ryan_quinn"}},"blog_header_image":{"dimensions":{"width":784,"height":418},"alt":"waves illustration with the word currents","copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/46f6503e2a60d5a17286285d3596eef8db19d91f_currets_blog_header--1-.png?auto=compress,format"},"blog_headline":[{"type":"heading1","text":"DigitalOcean Currents: December 2017","spans":[]}],"blog_post_content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":"In September we shared the results of the first DigitalOcean Currents survey and now we’re back with some fresh data and key insights for the coming year.  Technology moves quickly, so by sharing our latest findings each quarter we hope to provide some insight on what is important to developers and what trends are taking hold in the industry.","spans":[{"start":42,"end":76,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://blog.digitalocean.com/currents-developer-report/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Among other findings we learned that:","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Linux continues to dominate the server ecosystem. 89 percent of respondents report it as their preferred server operating system.","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Almost half of our respondents (46 percent) reported they would be likely to look for a new job in 2018.","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Among those job seekers work environment and culture was the most important factor when choosing a new employer.","spans":[]},{"type":"heading4","text":"Methodology","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"In November we reached out to our followers on social media, subscribers to Infrastructure as a Newsletter, and the members of several technology-focused Reddit communities. We asked what was important to them, what challenges they faced in 2017, and what they are looking forward to in the year to come.  We offered each participant a $5 gift card to our online store for their participation.  We expected the results to reflect the view of our developer community and did not ask directly about any services we provide or about cloud hosts in general.","spans":[{"start":76,"end":106,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/community/newsletter"}}]},{"type":"heading3","text":"AI & Machine Learning Will Continue To Be Hot Topics in 2018","spans":[]},{"type":"image","url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/db1cd08160b9dc219032a6d41ec78e9f543286f6_pasted-image-0.png?auto=compress,format","alt":null,"copyright":null,"dimensions":{"width":784,"height":418}},{"type":"paragraph","text":"AI/ML is already an incredibly hot topic among developers with new applications, for these new technologies appear almost daily. We found that while only 17% had worked with these technologies in 2017, 73% of those who had yet to dive into these areas were planning to learn more about AI/ML in 2018.  Anticipating this interest, DigitalOcean has started creating new content to help developers to learn about AI/ML along with a Machine Learning one-click application image to allow them to try out these tools quickly.","spans":[{"start":364,"end":415,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tags/machine-learning?type=tutorials"}},{"start":429,"end":473,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/products/one-click-apps/machine-learning/"}}]},{"type":"heading3","text":"Many Don’t Believe They Can Benefit From Continuous Integration","spans":[]},{"type":"image","url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/6a348ecd86d015473041b8d461175cfa87f2b6f0_pasted-image-0-2.png?auto=compress,format","alt":null,"copyright":null,"dimensions":{"width":784,"height":418}},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Over the last couple of years, automation in the form of continuous integration and development has become very popular because of its ability to create a seamless DevOps process, from writing code to deploying it to production. 42% of our respondents report using these workflows already. Of those that are not already using CI/CD, 46% do not believe that these methods are needed for their workflow and 38% have plans to implement CI/CD in the future.","spans":[]},{"type":"heading3","text":"Let's Encrypt is Dominating the SSL Certificate Market","spans":[]},{"type":"image","url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/f07f80956f228daa355a9dfb4859e17889da8270_pasted-image-0-3.png?auto=compress,format","alt":null,"copyright":null,"dimensions":{"width":784,"height":418}},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Since launching in 2016, Let's Encrypt, which provides free SSL certificates, has become tremendously popular with a massive 67% of our respondents reporting that it was their provider of choice.  The next most popular provider was Comodo at 8%.","spans":[{"start":25,"end":38,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tags/let-s-encrypt?type=tutorials"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"In order to bring you the most recent information, DigitalOcean Currents will be shared every quarter, highlighting the latest trends among developers.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"If you would like to be among the first to receive Currents each quarter, sign up here. You’ll receive the latest report each time it is released, can share your ideas on what topics we should cover, and can choose to be among those asked to share your views and experiences in our next survey.","spans":[{"start":74,"end":86,"type":"strong"},{"start":74,"end":86,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"http://do.co/getcurrents"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Read more about these and other findings in the full report. Download the full currents report here.","spans":[{"start":61,"end":100,"type":"strong"},{"start":61,"end":100,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://do.co/currents-report"}}]}],"blog_post_date":"2017-12-19","tags":[{"tag1":{"tag":"News","_linkType":"Link.document","_meta":{"uid":"news"}}}],"_meta":{"uid":"currents-dec-2017"}}},{"node":{"author":{"_linkType":"Link.document","author_name":"Ryan Quinn","author_image":{"dimensions":{"width":240,"height":240},"alt":"Ryan Quinn","copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/f9ea432b5990fac0de17b009eb0c7b3f2dc6885b_pasted-image-at-2017_09_15-10_25-am.png?auto=compress,format"},"_meta":{"uid":"ryan_quinn"}},"blog_header_image":{"dimensions":{"width":784,"height":418},"alt":"waves illustration with the word currents","copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/46f6503e2a60d5a17286285d3596eef8db19d91f_currets_blog_header--1-.png?auto=compress,format"},"blog_headline":[{"type":"heading1","text":"Announcing DigitalOcean Currents: A Quarterly Report on Developer Cloud Trends","spans":[]}],"blog_post_content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":"The landscape developers work in is ever-changing. Keeping up means following numerous press sources, blogs, and social media sites and joining the communities they are involved in. We decided that the best way to truly understand how developers work and how the tools we build help them was to ask—so we did!","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"DigitalOcean Currents is our inaugural quarterly report where we will share insights into how developers work and how they are affected by the latest tech industry trends. To get the data for this report, we reached out to developers through social media and our newsletter, our community, social news aggregators like Reddit, and more. We collected opinions from more than 1,000 developers across the world and company sectors.","spans":[{"start":0,"end":21,"type":"strong"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Among the many insights we gained from the survey, we found that developers rely on online documentation and tutorials more than any other method of learning about new technologies. Will this continuing trend mean developers have a wider or narrower base of knowledge (as bite sized pieces of technical content displace lengthy books)?","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Despite the tech industry’s important focus on maintaining a good work-life balance, only 12% of the developers we surveyed reported that they put the keyboard away at home; many opt to use their free time to write code for work or for personal projects.  While developers are often passionate about their work, this result indicates that developers may be more likely to face burnout even when working for employers who make work-life balance a focus.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Here are other key findings from the first report:","spans":[]},{"type":"heading2","text":"Helpful Companies and Projects Make Developers Successful","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"52% of respondents said their preferred way of learning about new technologies is through online tutorials, and 28% said official documentation is their preferred way of learning. This appears to indicate that companies who invest in great documentation see a payoff in developer loyalty.","spans":[]},{"type":"image","url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/5a50857b7d92dcf5e2c4c09160381677acff6cb0_operating-system.png?auto=compress,format","alt":"Operating-system-stats","copyright":null,"dimensions":{"width":784,"height":418}},{"type":"heading2","text":"Linux Marketshare is More Than Meets the Eye","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"While recent market share numbers show Linux rising to just over 3% of the desktop market, this number may be misleading. Instead of simply asking our respondents which desktop they used, we asked which operating system environment they spent most of their time using. 39% of respondents reported spending more time in a Linux environment than elsewhere, outpacing both macOS (36%) and Windows (23%).","spans":[]},{"type":"heading2","text":"PHP and MySQL Still Reign Supreme","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Despite all the buzz about the latest and greatest languages and frameworks, PHP remains the most popular language among our respondents with MySQL as the most popular database. Meanwhile, Nginx far outpaced Apache as the preferred web server.","spans":[]},{"type":"image","url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/70bf3e3d3943fd64d058957e1863201c2bd7a7f2_lock-in-fears.png?auto=compress,format","alt":"Lock-in fears graph","copyright":null,"dimensions":{"width":784,"height":418}},{"type":"heading2","text":"Vendor Lock-in Does Not Scare Developers","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"With the rise of SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS over legacy hosting platforms, vendor lock-in could be a concern. But with modern APIs and interoperability either directly or indirectly available through multi-vendor libraries, 77% of our respondents said that they’ve never decided not to use a cloud service for fear of being locked into that vendor’s ecosystem.","spans":[]},{"type":"heading2","text":"Moving to Hybrid and Multi-cloud Isn’t a Given","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"According to Gartner, 90% of organizations will adopt hybrid infrastructure management by 2020, but the majority of survey respondents said they aren’t planning to use simultaneous cloud services in the next year; only 15% said they would consider their current strategy a hybrid cloud strategy. Just 10% of respondents said they would consider their current strategy multi-cloud, and 70% said they have no plans to implement a multi-cloud strategy in the next year.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The full DigitalOcean Currents (September 2017) report can be found here.","spans":[{"start":0,"end":73,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://assets.digitalocean.com/currents-report/DigitalOcean-Currents-Q3-2017.pdf"}},{"start":0,"end":73,"type":"strong"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The tech industry moves fast and the cutting edge moves even faster. In order to bring you the most recent information, DigitalOcean Currents will be shared every quarter, highlighting the latest trends among developers.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"If you would like to be among the first to receive Currents each quarter, sign up here. You’ll receive the latest report each time it is released and will be among those asked to share your views and experiences.","spans":[{"start":74,"end":86,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"http://do.co/getcurrents"}}]}],"blog_post_date":"2017-09-25","tags":[{"tag1":{"tag":"News","_linkType":"Link.document","_meta":{"uid":"news"}}}],"_meta":{"uid":"currents-developer-report"}}},{"node":{"author":{"_linkType":"Link.document","author_name":"Ben Uretsky","author_image":{"dimensions":{"width":197,"height":197},"alt":"Ben Uretsky","copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/9c33dc1465bf14e543a18d402452f77970d3b4c1_aaeaaqaaaaaaaa3gaaaajdbmyjgxnzvjlti2zwutnddlzi04mgyxltlhyjfhotnlytgzna.jpg?auto=compress,format"},"_meta":{"uid":"ben_uretsky"}},"blog_header_image":{"dimensions":{"width":784,"height":418},"alt":"banner flags with the words Net Neutrality illustration","copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/d9acdba6807edab1dee707e8da1fda9f642bb47e_net_neutrality_blog.png?auto=compress,format"},"blog_headline":[{"type":"heading1","text":"Net Neutrality: Why the Internet Must Remain Open and Accessible","spans":[]}],"blog_post_content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":"DigitalOcean is proud to be taking part in today’s Day of Action to Save Net Neutrality. Access to an open internet is crucial to allowing companies like DigitalOcean and the thousands of businesses we power to exist. This is not something we can take for granted. Efforts to roll back the protections provided by net neutrality rules will stifle innovation and create an uneven playing field for smaller companies competing with entrenched players.","spans":[{"start":51,"end":87,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.battleforthenet.com/july12/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"I want to share the letter that I sent to our representatives in the Senate and encourage you to join us in speaking up while there's still time.","spans":[]},{"type":"preformatted","text":"DigitalOcean Inc. supports the Federal Communication Commission’s Open Internet Order and the principles of network neutrality that it upholds. As an infrastructure provider serving over  one million registered users, we support our customers’ rights to fair, equal, and open networks access as outlined in the Order. We have not experienced, nor do we anticipate experiencing,  any negative impact on broadband investment or service as a result of the Order.We strongly oppose the Commission’s recent proposal to dismantle the 2015 Open Internet Order. As evidenced by the federal judiciary over the past two decades in Comcast Corp. v. FCC and other cases, the Commission cannot enforce unbiased and neutral Internet access without the Title II classification of broadband providers as telecommunications providers. Therefore, we ask you to codify Title II reclassification into law. It is the only way to uphold network neutrality principles.As a direct competitor to the largest technology infrastructure providers in the nation, we are concerned that the Commission’s recent Notice for Proposed Rulemaking (WC Docket No. 17-108) will create an anti-competitive market environment because the costs of unfair networking practices will be forced onto infrastructure providers such as ourselves. Furthermore, many of our customers are individuals or small edge providers for whom changes to current network neutrality policies would significantly raise barriers to entry in various markets. Without legal protections against network blocking, throttling, unreasonable interference, and paid prioritization, it will be more difficult for us and for our customers to innovate, compete, and support the free flow of information.By protecting network neutrality, we hope that the 115th Congress can promote investment in New York, eliminate business uncertainty with regards to FCC rulemaking, support competition in the broadband market, and encourage small businesses to innovate. We look forward to working with you on passing legislation related to this issue.Signed,Ben Uretsky,\n  CEO, DigitalOcean Inc.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"If you’re in the US, join us and stand up for your right to an open and accessible internet by submitting your own letter to the FCC today.","spans":[{"start":95,"end":132,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.battleforthenet.com"}}]}],"blog_post_date":"2017-07-11","tags":[{"tag1":{"tag":"News","_linkType":"Link.document","_meta":{"uid":"news"}}}],"_meta":{"uid":"net-neutrality-letter"}}}]}}}