The DigitalOcean Newsletter: February 2024

The DigitalOcean Newsletter

Your monthly deep dive into all things DigitalOcean, including product updates, new tutorials, upcoming events, and more.

• We redesigned our Billing page for easier access to your billing settings, tax info, and invoices. We hope these changes simplify your billing experience on DigitalOcean but please let us know if you have any questions.
• Experience the power of Horizontal Scaling for Managed Kafka, our latest feature designed to empower customers to efficiently manage rising data volumes and traffic, enhance cluster reliability, and optimize resource utilization.
• Take advantage of powerful enhancements to DigitalOcean Backups which now include daily Droplet backups, faster backup times, and configurable backup windows.
• Explore DigitalOcean’s strategic partnership with Tabnine to bring an AI coding assistant to developers, startups, and growing digital businesses across the world.
• Unlock the advanced network visibility and security for your Kubernetes clusters with DigitalOcean’s new Cilium Hubble offering.
• Introducing Cloudways Autonomous: a fully managed, scalable WordPress hosting solution. Its Kubernetes backed infrastructure automatically adjusts resources based on traffic demands. The integrated enterprise CDN & database caching ensures optimal performance at all times.

Blogs:

• Get the scoop on DigitalOcean’s latest philanthropic initiative focused on fostering inclusive entrepreneurship for under-represented founders in key areas.
• Dive into our detailed guide on conversion rate optimization to enhance your sales funnel and drive significant revenue growth.
• Boost your work efficiency with AI productivity tools that automate tasks and streamline your daily operations.
• Discover the role of AI in hiring and how it’s adding speed and efficiency to the recruitment process.
• Dive into 10 top cloud cost management tools to save your cloud budget and scale your business cost-effectively.
• Compare DigitalOcean’s Managed Kubernetes with AWS EKS offerings to understand the key differences and features.  
• How to find the best fit clients and the right niche with Corey Quinn on The Digital Agency Show hosted by UGURUS.

• Discover the advantages of DigitalOcean’s Managed Kubernetes service at our webinar on March 12. We’re hosting two sessions – register for the that one best fits your schedule below:
  • Europe Livestream: 4pm CET / 3pm London / 10am EST
  • Americas Livestream: 2pm EST / 12pm MST / 11am PST
• Join the DigitalOcean team at NVIDIA GTC 2024 in San Jose, CA, US. Stop by booth 1329 to chat about GPUs, AI trends, and learn how we can help you scale your business. Learn more about what we have planned for NVIDIA GTC attendees here.
• Meet the DigitalOcean team at KubeCon Europe 2024 in Paris, FR! Visit us at booth J32 to meet with the team, participate in our daily raffle, learn about our Partner Marketplace program, and more! Check out what else we have planned for KubeCon Europe attendees here.
• Calling all Freelancers, Developers, and Early-Stage Agency Owners: UGURUS has a free live event series to launch your digital agency. Register to reserve your free spot here.