One Year at DigitalOcean
Published June 20, 2017
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Today marks one year with DigitalOcean, and I couldn’t be happier. I’m so unbelievably lucky to get to do what I do there. I work on the DigitalOcean Tutorials collection, where I help community authors get their articles published. It’s the perfect job for me, as I get to draw from my software development and system administration backgrounds, as well as my writing, editing, and teaching experiences. Writing software is fun, but DigitalOcean gives me the opportunity to help others get better at what they do. I not only get to publish awesome tutorials that people know and love, but I also get to help authors develop their skills so they can be better communicators. I can see the impact I’m having in conversations at conferences, on Twitter, and with the authors themselves.
DigitalOcean sent me anniversary flowers. Because that's how they roll.
Here are just a few of the cool things I’ve published this year:
- How To Configure Nginx as a Web Server and Reverse Proxy for Apache on One Ubuntu 16.04 Server
- How To Deploy a Node.js and MongoDB Application with Rancher on Ubuntu 16.04
- How To Crawl A Web Page with Scrapy and Python 3
- How To Install Ruby on Rails with RVM on Debian 8
- How To Gather Infrastructure Metrics with Packetbeat and ELK on CentOS 7
- How to Create a Cluster of Docker Containers with Docker Swarm and DigitalOcean on Ubuntu 16.04
- How To Deploy a Node.js and MongoDB Application with Rancher on Ubuntu 16.04
- How To Monitor System Metrics with the TICK Stack on CentOS 7
- How To Secure Your Rancher Web App with Let’s Encrypt on Ubuntu 16.04
- How to Configure NTP for Use in the NTP Pool Project on Ubuntu 16.04
- How to Install and Configure Zabbix to Securely Monitor Remote Servers on Ubuntu 16.04
In addition to these articles, I’ve had the opportunity to work on a bunch of other side projects. I helped smooth some process things out, took a slight detour into doing some marketing work, learned a ton about SEO, and participated in a hackfest where I worked with four awesome developers to build something pretty cool.
The best thing about the job is the team I work with. The company is full of amazing and talented people, and the team I’m on is no exception. Everyone on our team has great ideas, is passionate about helping people learn, and is incredibly supportive. I’ve learned so much from my teammates this year and I’m incredibly grateful for their help. There are lots of places you can trade your skills for money. But not every place makes you excited to head to work every Monday.
I’m looking forward to the next year at DO. I’ve got some big plans for year two.
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