The DigitalOcean Blog

Dive into DigitalOcean product updates, company news, and educational content on how developers and startups can leverage the cloud.

What's new and what's next at DigitalOcean: Managed Kafka, more Droplet choices, GPUs for AI/ML apps, and more

September 26, 2023

You've got unique business needs. We've got powerful solutions to meet them. Chat with us to get started.Contact sales

DigitalOcean‘s Picks

product updates

Introducing DigitalOcean Premium General Purpose Droplets

September 28, 20233 min read
product updates

Introducing DigitalOcean Managed Kafka

September 26, 20234 min read
community

Celebrating ten years of Hacktoberfest!

August 7, 20234 min read
product updates

Introducing Spaces Object Storage in Bangalore, India

July 10, 20233 min read
cloud education

AWS or DigitalOcean - Which cloud platform is the best fit for you?

December 8, 202210 min read

News

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

November 21, 20234 min read

Paperspace Joins DigitalOcean to Expand AI Capabilities

July 6, 20233 min read

DigitalOcean launches Partner Directory

May 22, 20232 min read

DigitalOcean expands backup capabilities with acquisition of SnapShooter

January 11, 20233 min read

DigitalOcean Featured on Tomorrow’s World Today, As Seen On Discovery Channel

November 14, 20221 min read

Introducing Partner Pod, DigitalOcean’s new partner program

October 25, 20222 min read

DigitalOcean named to Newsweek’s 2022 Most Loved Workplaces List

October 14, 20222 min read

Cloudways to join DigitalOcean 

August 23, 20222 min read

JournalDev joins DigitalOcean

July 14, 20222 min read

Product updates

The massive global expansion of DigitalOcean Spaces Built-in CDN brings seamless connectivity

December 18, 20233 min read

Startups and SMBs finding success with DigitalOcean Managed Kafka

November 7, 20233 min read

Protect your Droplet data from accidental data loss with independent backup deletion dates

October 23, 20232 min read

Introducing Scalable Storage for PostgreSQL and MySQL Managed Databases

October 2, 20234 min read

Introducing DigitalOcean Premium General Purpose Droplets

September 28, 20233 min read

What's new and what's next at DigitalOcean: Managed Kafka, more Droplet choices, GPUs for AI/ML apps, and more

September 26, 20237 min read

Introducing DigitalOcean Managed Kafka

September 26, 20234 min read

Announcing new Basic Premium Droplet plans

August 3, 20234 min read

Introducing Spaces Object Storage in Bangalore, India

July 10, 20233 min read

Cloud education

Partnering with DigitalOcean: Unleashing growth opportunities for ISVs

December 19, 20235 min read

The evolving needs of cloud buyers and vendor selection

December 12, 20234 min read

Top ten reasons why small and medium-sized businesses should adopt DigitalOcean as their cloud provider

November 1, 20236 min read

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

July 26, 20232 min read

Simplify and scale your Kubernetes workloads with Spaces Object Storage

July 10, 20234 min read

Harnessing the power of multi-data center cloud deployment

May 25, 20234 min read

Create delightful gaming experiences with Premium CPU-Optimized Droplets

May 15, 20235 min read

How a Kubernetes high availability control plane maximizes uptime and fortifies reliability

May 3, 20234 min read

Game hosting: How to choose the best infrastructure provider for your game

March 9, 20234 min read

Culture

2022 demonstrated the strength of small businesses

December 29, 20223 min read

A day in the life: How Customer Success Managers help DigitalOcean customers achieve their goals

December 19, 20223 min read

Get to know: Senior Technical Writer II Alex Garnett

November 8, 20224 min read

Intern insights: A summer with DigitalOcean Serverless Functions

September 20, 20224 min read

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging Report 2022

September 13, 20222 min read

Intern insights: A summer with the Kubernetes team

August 30, 20224 min read

A Q&A with DigitalOcean’s summer interns

July 27, 20225 min read

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

June 16, 20224 min read

A day in the life: A conversation with DigitalOcean’s Rainbow DOlphins Employee Resource Group leaders

June 1, 20226 min read

Community

The 10th anniversary of Hacktoberfest is a wrap!

November 15, 20235 min read

Try the DigitalOcean API directly from our documentation

November 9, 20232 min read

How to participate in Hacktoberfest

September 27, 20238 min read

Driving impact with DO for Nonprofits & Social Enterprises

August 15, 20233 min read

Founder Q&A: Dillon Erb and Daniel Kobran of Paperspace on their recent DigitalOcean acquisition and the future of AI

August 11, 20234 min read

Celebrating ten years of Hacktoberfest!

August 7, 20234 min read

Announcing a redesigned DigitalOcean status page

May 10, 20232 min read

A Migration Success Story: How ScraperAPI’s DevOps team use App Platform to build their DigitalOcean Kubernetes Apps

April 26, 20234 min read

Founder Q&A: How Battlesnake’s game engages with thousands of developers using DigitalOcean

March 14, 20236 min read

Trust security

Fine-grained RBAC for GitHub Action workflows With GitHub OIDC and HashiCorp Vault

February 3, 202327 min read

Enabling engineering teams through developer-first secrets management

January 26, 20238 min read

Securing your DigitalOcean account

January 10, 20233 min read

Impact to DigitalOcean customers resulting from Mailchimp security incident

August 15, 20224 min read

SMTP restricted by default

June 22, 20222 min read

DigitalOcean mitigated the AMD vulnerability CVE-2021-26339

May 10, 20222 min read

DigitalOcean’s response to the Log4j security vulnerability

December 13, 20213 min read

Customer Onboarding Funnel Equilibrium: Securing Customer Experience

January 12, 20214 min read

A message about Intel’s recent security vulnerabilities

November 11, 20201 min read

Engineering

DigitalOcean's journey to Python Client generation

January 26, 20237 min read

How DigitalOcean uses Let’s Encrypt

November 28, 20226 min read

Inside DigitalOcean's Reserved IP Rails migration

September 6, 202213 min read

How DigitalOcean’s new Droplet Console works

May 26, 20225 min read

Contributing to open source software: Kubernetes

June 15, 20219 min read

Introducing the DigitalOcean OpenAPI Specification

March 30, 20212 min read

A glimpse into network availability

February 11, 20217 min read

GTA: Detecting affected dependent Go packages

January 12, 20215 min read

Build component-based apps with DigitalOcean App Platform

December 15, 20206 min read