The DigitalOcean Newsletter: February 24, 2021

The DigitalOcean Newsletter

Read on for a monthly recap of all things DigitalOcean, including product updates, new tutorials, upcoming events, and more.

Product Updates

Introducing Premium Droplets
With faster Intel and AMD CPUs, along with NVMe SSD, Premium Droplets provide an easy, low-cost way to improve application performance. Premium Intel Droplets utilize second generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, which feature what's commonly referred to as the Cascade Lake architecture. Premium AMD Droplets currently run second generation EPYC processors, a feature that's known as the Rome architecture.

For additional details, please see the blog post on this topic.
App Platform now available in BLR, SGP, and SFO regions
We are excited to announce the availability of DigitalOcean App Platform in BLR (Bangalore, India), SGP (Singapore). and SFO (San Francisco, CA) regions. App Platform is also available in AMS (Amsterdam, Netherlands), FRA (Frankfurt, Germany), and NYC (New York, NY) regions.
Marketplace updates
We launched many preconfigured 1-Click Apps in the DigitalOcean Marketplace to help you save time and remove the hassle of provisioning servers.
- Budibase - Enables you to build internal tools, such as; dashboards, admin panels, CRMs, approval apps, employee wikis, and everything in between!
- WebMaker Server - A scalable hosted environment for publishing WebMaker applications created using the WebMaker Design Studio.
- Kubernetes 1.19 - Provides the necessary tools to initialize or join CAST AI managed multi-cloud kubernetes cluster.

See more updates in the latest products and features blog post.

New Blog Posts

Announcing the Winners of the App Platform Hackathon! It was incredibly difficult to judge the submissions because of the high level of creativity we encountered. Each category showcased genius solutions to common problems.
DigitalOcean has offered students the opportunity to build in the cloud through the GitHub Student Developer Pack since 2014. We are pleased to announce that we have increased our offering to $100 worth of credits to use on the DigitalOcean platform for one calendar year.

New Tutorials

Still using the Control Panel to spin up new Droplets? Our latest series on How To Manage Infrastructure with Terraform explains how to use Terraform to manage your infrastructure as code, allowing you to rapidly deploy your applications.
An image that looks great in a desktop browser isn't always easy to scale for mobile devices. This tutorial on How To Handle Images with GraphQL and the Gatsby Image API by Portia Burton outlines strategies for compressing, transforming, and styling website images.
If you're interested in machine learning, you can check out Alvin Wan's Introduction to PyTorch. In it, he outlines how to use PyTorch to build, train, and evaluate deep neural networks to recognize and classify handwritten digits.

Have you considered writing a tutorial that will help others in the developer community? Check out our Suggested Topics for Tutorials to see what our Editorial team is looking for!

Tech Talks

Upcoming

What's New In DigitalOcean Managed Databases
March 16, 11:00 a.m. ET
Migrate your data quickly, get more powerful instances, and see how leveraging DigitalOcean Managed Databases allows you to focus on what's important: building your product.
Getting Started With Flask
March 17, 11:00 a.m. ET
Learn how to use Flask – a Python micro web framework – to build your web applications. See how Flask handles routing, web page templating, and more.

Watch the Recording

Build a Fullstack App With Strapi and Next.js
Build an API and frontend in less than an hour using Strapi as your backend and Next.js as your frontend.
What's New With DigitalOcean App Platform
Demos of new features of DigitalOcean App Platform that help you accelerate your deployments in the cloud, and a sneak peek into features coming soon.

Subscribe to the 'Tech Talks' tag within our Community platform to get alerts on the latest talks from our team and the greater community. You're also invited to subscribe to our YouTube channel.

Customer Stories

Spin up a Droplet, plant a tree? Seems like an unlikely trade off, yet it's exactly what Steadfast Collective offers their customers via DigitalOcean and Ecologi API integration. Check out our interview with Managing Director, Pete Heslop, to learn how his digital application development studio is planting trees in Asia all the way from Southampton, UK.

Welcome to Navigators (DigitalOcean's official Ambassador program)

You are an excellent candidate for the Navigators Program if you are already immersed in the developer ecosystem and have found success in helping other people learn and build. You can learn more about Navigators and apply here.