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Enabling you to focus on building apps and delivering value for your customers is key to our mission at DigitalOcean. We’re committed to providing the resources you need to succeed, and we also recognize that the needs of each of our customers are different. Over the last six months, we’ve…

At DigitalOcean, we believe our community is bigger than us, and the ideas of entrepreneurs and builders of all kinds are essential for innovation and growth. That’s why we started the Founder Diaries series as a place for our innovative customers to share the lessons they’ve learned as they build…

DigitalOcean’s journey toward building an inclusive organization took an enormous step forward when we started Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) in 2021. The ERGs were established to support employees drawn together by common interests, shared characteristics, and similar life experiences. Their aim is to encourage ideas, promote a sense of belonging,…

DigitalOcean recently acquired Paperspace, a leading provider of cloud infrastructure for highly scalable GPU-accelerated applications, such as AI/ML applications. We spoke with the Paperspace founders, Dillon Erb and Daniel Kobran, about how Paperspace first came to be, the challenges and successes they’ve faced as they grew, and what they think…

Nonprofits and social enterprises are using cloud services to create technology solutions that positively impact their communities and the world. Technology can increase the impact and efficiency of these organizations as they build digital presence and digital tools to reach more beneficiaries, enrich services, conduct research, collect data and innovate…

Helping developers learn, build, and scale their applications is one of our core missions at DigitalOcean. Over the last decade, we have published thousands of tutorials from authors across the world covering topics from cloud computing to OAuth 2 and everything in between. As DigitalOcean’s products and services have continued…

ScraperAPI is a web scraping platform that allows companies to collect the data they need on HTML sites across the web, built with developers in mind. ScraperAPI was in DigitalOcean’s Hatch startup incubation program from day one and has since grown to serve tens of thousands of companies. As a…

This October we’re excited to kick off a very special month of open source contributions—our tenth annual Hacktoberfest! Since 2014, maintainers and contributors have come together to contribute to the open source projects that many companies, including DigitalOcean, rely on. Over the years Hacktoberfest has grown from a small group…