DigitalOcean has been instrumental in helping me transition from a college graduate into a professional developer who can build and design entire backends.
Those 5$/mo droplets let me explore a lot of software and run proper production-like benchmarks for my own learning.
Over time I moved a lot of my personal projects and infra over to DO (and started working on new ones now that I had a good provider to host them on).
And now with the new managed offerrings for the CORE technologies people need (databases, caches, K8S etc.) I'm happy to see that I can start being a little more productive with my side projects.
So, in essence I want to thank the people at DigitalOcean for what they've built and continue to build.
Those 5$/mo droplets let me explore a lot of software and run proper production-like benchmarks for my own learning.
Over time I moved a lot of my personal projects and infra over to DO (and started working on new ones now that I had a good provider to host them on).
And now with the new managed offerrings for the CORE technologies people need (databases, caches, K8S etc.) I'm happy to see that I can start being a little more productive with my side projects.
So, in essence I want to thank the people at DigitalOcean for what they've built and continue to build.