June 2019 Summaries

On May 28, 2019, DigitalOcean hosted a live webinar on their new Marketplace and how to accelerate modern application development with 1-Click Apps. The presenters included Betty Candel, Karan M.V., and John Gannon. The full webinar is available on YouTube. Upcoming topics in the Marketplace series include getting started as a vendor and setting up 1-Click Apps. Live polling results were shared during the webinar, with feedback welcome for improvements. Resources for Marketplace vendors are provided, including guides on creating 1-Click Apps and using Packer to automate image creation. DigitalOcean encourages developers to submit their app ideas to be featured in the Marketplace.

A customer's account was locked and resources were powered down due to a false positive generated by DigitalOcean's anti-fraud and abuse automation system. The company investigated the issue and unlocked the account, but not before the customer experienced significant downtime. DigitalOcean has apologized for the mistake and is taking measures to prevent similar incidents in the future, including peer review of account terminations, improving response times, and revisiting how communications about fraud and abuse issues are handled on social media platforms.