Rodney Armstrong

01/06/2022

Introducing doctl: the Command Line Interface to DigitalOcean

Why a CLI utility?

31/05/2022

Using Vault as a Certificate Authority for Kubernetes

The Delivery team at DigitalOcean is tasked to make shipping internal services quick and easy. In December of 2015, we set out to design and implement a platform built on top of Kubernetes. We want...

30/05/2022

Open Source at DigitalOcean: Introducing go-qemu and go-libvirt

At DigitalOcean, we use libvirt with QEMU to create and manage the virtual machines that compose our Droplet product. QEMU is the workhorse that enables hundreds of Droplets to run on a single serv...

24/05/2022

Monte Carlo raises $135M Series D at $1.6B price, showing that unicorn rounds are still a thing

If you grow this quickly, yes, you can raise capital for your software business like it's still 2021.

18/05/2022

A flying yacht is here to solve the pain of being rich

Entrepreneurs are intent on creating a luxury flying yacht that's part blimp, part hotel, and part sailing yacht.

18/05/2022

Tech Support: Solutions for a warming world

Recode by Vox writers explore how technology is cleaning up the climate disaster it helped create.

18/05/2022

The rise of the crypto cop

The government is looking for tech-savvy detectives who can crack down on crypto.

16/05/2022

DeepMind’s new AI can perform over 600 tasks, from playing games to controlling robots

Alphabet-backed research lab DeepMind created an AI system, Gato, that can perform hundreds of tasks ranging from controlling a robot to analyzing text.

16/05/2022

To boost early-stage growth, adopt a jobs-to-be-done approach to marketing

Thinking of and using the jobs users want to accomplish to inform your strategy will help boost SEO, improve conversion on generic pages, and increase the virality of your product.

16/05/2022

Meta is exploring how it can simplify payments across its platforms to make it easier to access and process in the metaverse. Facebook Pay will become Meta Pay.

12/05/2022

Brazilian fintech infrastructure company Dock closes on $110M in funding, now valued at over $1.5B

São Paulo-based Dock operates a full-stack payments and digital banking “platform” across the region; the startup has raised $110 million.

12/05/2022

Komodor wants to make every engineer a Kubernetes troubleshooting expert

For a time, Kubernetes, the open source container management platform, was as hot as it comes, but lately it has settled into a more mainstream cadence of a maturing technology. As more companies adopt containerization and micro services, it requires more sophisticated tooling to manage a system wi....