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Delivering both block and object storage platforms out to our users involved our very talented designers, engineers, infrastructure, operations, product, support and marketing teams, so there's no one particular "field" that you need to be best at. ;)

I can speak specific to storage engineering a little bit. I don't think there's a strong requirement of a university degree as such, but having the knowledge (and/or experience) of dealing with persistence (along with the problems that come with it) and various access patterns for large amounts of data would certainly be useful. We have built several services internally that manage information flow and persist metadata of storage clusters, that don't deal directly with the underlying user data but are critical to the control plane and having generic software engineering skills is quite useful here.

We're looking at both of these items, although no firm plans yet. Thanks for the question!

Hi Ipseeta, yes you can expect new products and features in the coming months to help developers and businesses build, scale and manage their applications on DigitalOcean. We’ve been growing our product and engineering teams to do just that!

For CDN and email infrastructure, there are some good open source and commercial options. We’re always aiming to make open source options easy to use on DO, and when there are popular commercial products we will look to make those integrations easy as well.

For both block and object storage we use Ceph (https://github.com/ceph/ceph) as our backend storage engine. The requirement of distributing copies of user data effectively while keeping them fully consistent was paramount to us. That and the fact that we like to use open-source tools throughout our stack (and contribute upstream whenever possible) led us to make this choice.

Regarding the design of Ceph, I like to point people to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7I9uxoEhUdY since it gives an overview of the internals very nicely. :)

Hi Enric - it's something we're evaluating as a potential future product offering. No concrete plans yet, though. Thank you for the question and feedback.

Hi Anuj - please see hashnode.com/ama/with-digitalocean-team-cjae4f1zt… :)

Hi, Michael - unfortunately we do not have gift cards. But you can send your friends $10 in credit and earn $25 yourself (which you could share if you choose to :)

More info here: https://www.digitalocean.com/referral-program/

Hi Duane, we’ve seen a steady increase in the number of project teams that use DigitalOcean, with over 70K teams on the platform and 1+ million developers.

These teams are at startups and larger companies, for example slack and docker. The ease of using DigitalOcean is normally why we are brought into a company, usually by a developer who has used us in the past and wants to use us for a project at work. We’ve profiled a few customers on our web site and will be adding more: https://www.digitalocean.com/customers/