In this week’s The Long View: CSS-Tricks gets bought by DigitalOcean, Peloton fiddles while its business burns, and Arm lays off up to 15% of staff.
Open Source Advocates Want Share of Wealth
The egalitarian spirit of the open source community might be starting to fray as individual developers begin to question who is really benefiting most from their efforts. A survey of 4,440 developers who actively participated in open source projects in 2020 finds more than half (54%) of respondents said they feel that individuals should be […]
DigitalOcean Launches Managed Databases
New offering enables developers to deploy fully managed databases without administrative overhead New York City, NY; February 14, 2019 – DigitalOcean, the cloud for developing modern apps, today announced the launch of Managed Databases, with PostgreSQL as its first offering. The service will allow developers to create fully managed database instances in the cloud quickly […]
DigitalOcean Appoints Mark Templeton as Chief Executive Officer
Former Citrix CEO will bring new leadership to help company achieve its vision of simplifying the cloud for developers and teams NEW YORK, NY – June 20, 2018 – DigitalOcean, the cloud platform for developers and their teams, today announced that it has appointed accomplished technology leader Mark Templeton as chief executive officer, effective July […]
DigitalOcean Releases Free Monitoring Service so Developers Can Easily Optimize Application Performance
NEW YORK, NY – April 4, 2017 – DigitalOcean, the cloud for developers, today launched a Monitoring service that provides insight into the resource utilization and operational health of every Droplet (cloud server). Developers can collect metrics, monitor Droplet performance, and receive alerts in one easy-to-view interface, with no configuration required. “Our goal is to […]
DigitalOcean Releases Block Storage, Enabling Developers and Businesses to Build and Scale Larger Applications
Highly available and flexible SSD-based storage enables teams of developers to scale production workloads, add disk space, and build distributed applications without changing Droplet size NEW YORK – July 13, 2016 – DigitalOcean, provider of the cloud computing platform designed for developers, today released Block Storage, the number one product request from customers. Block […]