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When deploying a new application or service, security is always a top concern. The internet is full of malicious actors probing applications for vulnerabilities and sniffing for open ports. Tools like iptables are essential to any developer’s toolkit, but they can be complicated to use, especially when building distributed…
This post is the first in a three-part series we're publishing this summer on artificial intelligence, written by DigitalOcean’s Head of R&D, Alejandro (Alex) Jaimes. In recent months, the amount of media coverage on AI has increased so significantly that a day doesn’t go by without…
We designed DigitalOcean Monitoring and its service alerts to provide insight into overall Droplet performance. In this post, we’ll cover key design decisions on Droplet-level Monitoring so you can better understand the choices we have made and how you can best use this service. CPU Measurement: Use a consistent…
On April 11th at 06:43 UTC, DigitalOcean's SFO2 region experienced an outage of compute and networking services. The catalyst of this incident was the failure of multiple redundant power distribution units (PDU) within the datacenter. Complications during the recovery effort prolonged the incident and caused intermittent failures of our…
Today, DigitalOcean's control panel and API were unavailable for a period of four hours and fifty-six minutes. During this time, all running Droplets continued to function, but no additional Droplets or other resources could be created or managed. We know that you depend on our services, and an outage like…