Benchmarks are a common way to measure and compare the performance of cloud compute servers. While standardized benchmarks are useful for establishing a consistent, broad set of comparison metrics, it can be useful and more practical to compare the performance of the actual tasks you run most often on your…
We have always been community-focused at DigitalOcean. On our Community site, we offer a few ways that developers can connect with each other, through sharing projects, learning about meetups, or answering questions. Additionally, we have over 1,800 technical tutorials, written by both external community members and internal technical writers,…
As a follow up to our last post on candidate experience, this post will explore how we’re impacting employees and candidates with our approach to optimizing the interview experience. Good Interviewers Aren’t Born; They’re Made In early September, we launched the DigitalOcean Sailor Certification Program, which consisted…
We’re excited to announce that Spaces is now available in our Singapore datacenter, giving developers and businesses global reach to affordable and scalable object storage. Since our initial launch in September, Spaces has grown in popularity with both existing and new customers—over one billion objects have been stored…
Back in November 2016, DigitalOcean released go-libvirt, an open source project containing a pure Go interface to libvirt. Using go-libvirt, developers could manage virtual machines leveraging all the power of libvirt’s extensive API without leaving the comfortable environment of Go. But there was a catch. While the libvirt library…
