Engineering Insights

Understanding Prisma 7 Performance Benchmarks

We reviewed community benchmarks comparing Prisma 6 and Prisma 7. Here’s what they measure, where regressions exist, and how we’re fixing them.

Leveling Up Kubernetes: Key DigitalOcean Managed Kubernetes Releases in 2025

2025 was a busy and transformative year for DigitalOcean Managed Kubernetes, marked by a series of releases that make DigitalOcean Kubernetes simpler, more secure, and more scalable for developers and growing businesses. Across engine upgrades, networking and security enhancements, autoscaling improvements, and new ecosystem integrations, this year’s updates aimed to give teams more power with less operational overhead. Whether users are running production workloads, experimenting with microserv

Powering the Next Leap in AI: GPU Droplets accelerated by NVIDIA HGX™ B300 are now available on DigitalOcean

AI continues to evolve at an unprecedented pace, with new models and demanding workloads pushing the boundaries of what’s possible. From complex large language models (LLMs) to intricate scientific simulations, developers and businesses need access to the most powerful and efficient computing infrastructure. At DigitalOcean, we’re committed to providing the cutting-edge tools you need to build, deploy, and scale your AI initiatives with simplicity and affordability. That’s why we’re excited to a

CUGA on Hugging Face: Democratizing Configurable AI Agents

How to prompt v0

Working with v0 is like working with a highly skilled teammate who can build anything you need. v0 is more than just a tool, it’s your building partner. And like with any great collaborator, the quality of what you get depends on how clearly you communicate. Read more

Build smarter workflows with Notion and v0

Notion has become the trusted, connected workspace for teams. It's where your PRDs, specs, and project context live. v0 helps those teams turn ideas into dashboards, apps, and prototypes. Today, those workflows connect. You can now securely connect v0 to your Notion workspace, so everything it builds is grounded in your existing docs and databases. Wherever your team's knowledge lives in Notion, v0 can now build on top of it. Read more

Durable Objects, Workers - New Best Practices guide for Durable Objects

A new Rules of Durable Objects guide is now available, providing opinionated best practices for building effective Durable Objects applications. This guide covers design patterns, storage strategies, concurrency, and common anti-patterns to avoid. Key guidance includes: Design around your "atom" of coordination — Create one Durable Object per logical unit (chat room, game session, user) instead of a global singleton that becomes a bottleneck. Use SQLite storage with RPC methods — SQLite-backed D

$50 PlanetScale Metal is GA for Postgres

Today we’re making PlanetScale Metal for Postgres available in smaller sizes and at much lower price points, all the way down to the new M-10 for as little as $50 per month.We’ve lowered the floor from 16GiB of RAM with four sizes all the way to 1GiB and paired these with eight storage capacities ranging from 10GB to 1.2TB. These new sizes are powered by the same blazingly fast, locally attached NVMe drives that customers like Cash App, Cursor, and Intercom use to decrease latency, increase reli