September 2014 Summaries

Click below to sign up and get $200 of credit to try our products over 60 days!Sign up for DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest giveaway, which offers a free limited edition DO Hacktoberfest T-shirt to anyone who makes 50 or more commits on any public GitHub repo in October. To claim the shirt, simply commit to your current repo or start something new and confirm your stats at the end of the month. Additionally, attendees of hackathons can also receive a shirt by tweeting a picture of themselves with DigitalOcean swag using the hashtag #hacktoberfest. The official Hacktoberfest site is now live, offering an email reminder for sign-ups, and will be highlighting hackathons worldwide on Twitter throughout October.

AMS3 (Amsterdam) is now live, offering v1.5 of the backend codebase and enabling IPv6 on Droplets. Developers in Europe can take advantage of additional benefits, such as networking services without powering off their instances. The new region also supports CoreOS as an operating system option, allowing for easy containerization and distributed systems setup with containers. Users can access resources and tutorials to help them get started with IPv6 and CoreOS on Droplets in AMS3.

DigitalOcean has upgraded its community site with a redesigned interface, user profiles, manual subscriptions, upvoting, and an overall more community-driven platform. The community, which was launched in 2012, now features contributions from over 50% of the tutorials, showcasing the engagement and growth of the developer community. DigitalOcean's new features include user profiles to track contributions, notifications for updates on posts, threaded discussions with markdown formatting options, and a way to show appreciation for helpful content through upvoting. The company is grateful for the community's support and looks forward to continuing to improve and refine the platform based on user feedback.

The developer community can now use CoreOS on DigitalOcean, providing an easy and quick way to deploy applications and experiment with containers. Docker containers can boot in milliseconds on CoreOS, offering unprecedented flexibility in managing load across a cluster of Droplets. The integration also includes automatic updates, automatic network configuration, and etcd technology for deploying clusters of servers configured to work together, ensuring the resiliency of architecture. This feature greatly reduces the impact of a possible server failure, supporting high-traffic applications. CoreOS Managed Linux is delivered as an OS as a Service for commercial support. The announcement follows similar strategies used by Google, Facebook, and Twitter to allow for growth and resilient systems.