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May 15, 02:00 UTC
Resolved - As of the current time, our Engineering team has confirmed that the issue with Serverless Inference has been resolved. The root cause of the issue was an outage with our provider, Anthropic, which affected users of Sonnet 4.6 and Opus 4.7 models. According to Anthropic's status page (https://status.claude.com/incidents/8z7l5zcy0v3b), they have resolved the outage. If you continue to experience problems, please open a ticket with our Support team. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.
May 15, 01:23 UTC
Identified - According to Anthropic's status page (https://status.claude.com/incidents/8z7l5zcy0v3b), they have identified the root cause and are actively working on a fix. At this time, users may continue to experience errors when attempting to use Sonnet 4.6 and Opus 4.7 models. We will provide another update once Anthropic has implemented a fix and service is restored.
May 15, 01:21 UTC
Monitoring - As of the current time, our Engineering team is aware of an ongoing incident with our provider, Anthropic, that is impacting Serverless Inference. The outage is affecting all users attempting to use Sonnet 4.6 and Opus 4.7 models. According to Anthropic's status page (https://status.claude.com/incidents/8z7l5zcy0v3b), they are currently experiencing an outage that is causing this disruption. We apologize for the inconvenience and will provide updates as more information becomes available.
May 14, 20:46 UTC
Resolved - As of 19:50 UTC, the issue affecting the DNS service has been fully resolved, and all related services, including Let's Encrypt certificate issuance and Managed MongoDB provisioning, are now operating normally.
The backlog of delayed requests has been successfully processed, and all DNS record updates, pending certificate, and MongoDB operations should now be complete.
We apologize for the disruption this caused and appreciate your patience while our team worked to restore full functionality.
However, if you continue to experience any issues, please don't hesitate to raise a support ticket for further investigation. We'll be happy to assist you.
May 14, 16:42 UTC
Monitoring - Our Engineering team has implemented a fix for the issue affecting our DNS service and are now seeing DNS record updates successfully propagate to the edge.
As a result, Let's Encrypt certificate issuance and Managed MongoDB provisioning (including scaling operations) should resume. We are currently monitoring the systems as they process the backlog of delayed requests. Affected MongoDB clusters and certificate requests should complete their provisioning automatically.
We will continue to monitor the situation closely to ensure full stability. We appreciate your patience throughout this process and will provide an update once the issue is fully confirmed as resolved.
May 14, 15:52 UTC
Update - Our engineering team continues to investigate an issue affecting our DNS service. At this time, DNS resolution remains functional; however, new changes to DNS records are currently not being reflected at the edge.
This issue is also impacting related services. Specifically, customers may be unable to create new Let's Encrypt certificates. Regarding Managed MongoDB, customers will be able to submit requests to create new clusters or scale existing ones, but the completion of the provisioning process is currently delayed. This is due to the dependency on Let's Encrypt certificate issuance, which requires functional DNS propagation.
Affected clusters will automatically recover and complete their provisioning once the DNS issue is resolved. Our engineering team is actively working to restore full functionality across all affected services.
We apologize for the inconvenience and will share more information as it becomes available.
May 14, 13:57 UTC
Investigating - Our Engineering team is investigating an issue affecting our DNS service. At this time, DNS resolution remains functional but any changes to DNS records are not being reflected at the edge. Additionally, customers may be unable to create new Let's Encrypt certificates at this time. Our engineering team is actively working to identify the root cause and restore full functionality.
We apologize for any inconvenience, and we'll share more information as it becomes available.

I made a small starter kit for using Drupal without putting Drupal in production.
The idea is simple.
Run Drupal locally with DDEV. Use it as the CMS. Astro fetches the content at build time through JSON:API and Linkset. Then you deploy the static output.
No hosted Drupal.
No production database.
No PHP runtime on the public site.
Repo:
https://github.com/rovo79/Drupal_Astro_Kit
First run:
~~~
git clone https://github.com/rovo79/Drupal_Astro_Kit.git
cd Drupal_Astro_Kit
./setup.sh
~~~
This is not meant to replace every Drupal site. It is for the cases where the public site does not need to be dynamic, but the content editing model still benefits from Drupal.
It is early, but the basic path is there: clone, setup, edit content locally, build static files, deploy dist/.
If you try it and the first run breaks, I’d want to know where.
May 16, 05:07 UTC
Completed - The scheduled maintenance currently in progress has encountered unexpected roadblocks. As a result, we have made the decision to pause the maintenance at this time.
We will provide a further update with a specific time and date for the resumption and expected completion as soon as those details are finalized.
We apologize for any inconvenience and thank you for your understanding.
If you have questions or concerns about this maintenance, please reach out to us by opening up a ticket on your account.
May 15, 06:06 UTC
Update - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
May 14, 20:06 UTC
In progress - Phase 1 maintenance is complete. Phase 2 is scheduled to begin on the 15th of May 2026 (Friday) at 04:30 UTC.
May 14, 20:05 UTC
Scheduled - Phase 1 maintenance is complete. Phase 2 is scheduled to begin on the 15th of May 2026 (Friday) at 04:30 UTC.
May 14, 04:30 UTC
In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
May 13, 21:02 UTC
Scheduled - Phase 1 Start: 2026-05-14 04:30 UTC
Phase 1 End: 2026-05-14 17:30 UTC
Phase 2 Start: 2026-05-15 04:30 UTC
Phase 2 End: 2026-05-15 17:30 UTC
During the above windows, our Engineering team will be performing upgrades to Functions backend infrastructure in the SYD1 region.
Expected Impact:
We anticipate some potential service disruptions during these maintenance windows. Function invocations may experience brief periods of elevated error rates or timeouts during node pool recycling in each region, and Apps that are configured with DBaaS Trusted Sources may see Trusted Source connectivity failures until DBaaS firewall rules are refreshed post-upgrade. We do not anticipate any impact to other non-Function components.
If you have any questions related to this event, please send us a ticket from your cloud support page. https://cloudsupport.digitalocean.com/s/createticket

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May 12, 11:37 UTC
Resolved - The remediation for the issue affecting the GradientAI Agent Platform Playground has been fully implemented, and the service is operating normally. We are no longer observing customer impact related to this issue, and the incident has been resolved.
May 12, 11:36 UTC
Monitoring - We have applied a fix for the issue affecting the GradientAI Agent Platform Playground and are monitoring the service to ensure continued stability. At this time, we are no longer observing new reports related to this issue.
May 12, 11:14 UTC
Update - A fix has been applied for the issue affecting the GradientAI Agent Platform Playground, and we are observing recovery in service behavior.
May 12, 10:50 UTC
Identified - We have identified the cause of the issue affecting the GradientAI Agent Platform Playground. Our engineering team is implementing a fix, and we will provide another update as soon as it is available.
May 12, 10:24 UTC
Investigating - We are currently investigating an issue affecting the GradientAI Agent Platform Playground. Users may see a “Something went wrong” error for all agent interactions in the Playground. Agent functionality through API endpoints remains unaffected. We are actively working to identify the cause and will provide an update as soon as more information is available.

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Hi, Drupal Developer here with 10+ years of remote experience with Drupal 7-10.
I am now currently working for a full-time remote position; but every application on LinkedIn/Indeed yields no results, not even a mail from recruiter.
So, the question is, which sites are most popular for Drupal positions? Or what approach can I use to land a job with Drupal?
Thank you for all the answers!

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I am trying to upgrade a Drupal CMS 1.1.0 installation and Composer says drupal cms is locked to 1.1.0 and causes conflicts with other modules.
Below is a quotation from this link - https://www.drupal.org/project/cms/releases/2.1.0-beta1
Drupal CMS 2.1.0-beta includes a new site template, Haven, with a warm and bright design and features aimed at non-profit websites.
This release should be used for testing only and is not suitable for building websites. There is no update path for Drupal CMS.
It may be a glorious journey to upgrade from the current Drupal CMS 1.1.0 but I don't feel that adventurous.
Right now I just want to make sure I don't fall behind on security updates with all installed modules whether they are part of the Drupal CMS 1.x recipes even if I don't upgrade to 2.x.x.
If Drupal CMS 1.x is locked to particular versions of Drupal Core does that mean it will be eventually insecure and have to be abandoned, unless it offers the ability transfer the content to Drupal 2.x?
Hi,
In a couple of weeks I’ll be trying to get my backend specialist certification. However I don’t feel like I’ve grasped the concepts of Core API and especially caching that well… so I would like to ask for tips and tricks for getting better at them.
Also, how did you experience the exam? What kind of questions did they ask?
I’d like to know!
Hi! I am a full stack developer -- MERN, Django specializing in backend, I have seen many people using platforms like wordpress, shopify, drupal, flutter to make websites rather than coding everything from scratch.
I genuinely have no experience with these apps and want to explore these things.
I learned PHP and how it works recently to understand drupal but I am not finding any good resource to learn drupal, can any gentlemen or woman help me with their knowledge from where I can learn about Drupal architecture?
TL, DR: Looking for drupal learning resources.
Thank you !
May 9, 14:42 UTC
Resolved - Between 5:35 and 14:25 UTC today, our Engineering team identified an issue that prevents enabling Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) and Google/GitHub authentication through the Control Panel. During this period, users might have encountered issues while enabling authentication methods and accessing teams with secure sign-in enabled.
Our team has taken appropriate measures to address the issue. We can confirm that service has been restored and is now functioning normally.
We regret the inconvenience caused. However, if you continue to experience any issues, please create a support ticket for further analysis.
May 9, 13:51 UTC
Monitoring - Our Engineering team has implemented necessary changes to address the issue affecting the ability to enable Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) and Google/GitHub authentication through the Control Panel. Our team is currently monitoring the situation to ensure stability.
We appreciate your patience and will provide an update once the issue is fully confirmed as resolved.
May 9, 11:15 UTC
Investigating - Our Engineering team is investigating an issue affecting the ability to enable Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) and Google/GitHub authentication through the Control Panel. During this time, users may encounter errors while enabling these authentication methods and could also experience issues accessing teams with secure sign-in enabled.
We apologize for the inconvenience and will provide an update as soon as more information becomes available.
May 8, 21:54 UTC
Resolved - The upstream outage with Let's Encrypt has been resolved. Customers should now be able to issue Let's Encrypt certificates for Spaces, Load Balancers, and App Platform Custom Domains. Our Engineering team has also confirmed that stuck or delayed actions with Mongo, Advanced PG, and Advanced MySQL databases should complete normally now.
We appreciate your patience. If you continue to experience any issues, please open a support ticket from within your account.
May 8, 20:46 UTC
Identified - Our Engineering team is aware of an upstream outage with Let's Encrypt (see https://letsencrypt.status.io/) which impacts the following services:
- Inability to create new Let's Encrypt certificates for Spaces, Load Balancers, and App Platform Custom Domains
- Stuck or delayed creates/forks/restores on Mongo, PG, and MySQL databases.
Please note that operations related to Managed Databases and App Platform Custom Domains will automatically retry and should complete successfully once the upstream outage is resolved.
We'll continue to monitor this situation and provide updates. We apologize for the inconvenience.
May 8, 19:59 UTC
Resolved - Our engineering team has resolved the issue with multiple services in NYC2 region, and all services should now be operating normally. If you continue to experience problems, please open a ticket with our support team. We apologize for any inconvenience and thank you for your patience.
May 8, 19:53 UTC
Update - We are continuing to monitor for any further issues.
May 8, 19:21 UTC
Monitoring - Our Engineering team has identified the issue and implemented a fix to resolve the issues with multiple services, and is monitoring the situation. We will post an update as soon as the issue is fully resolved.
May 8, 18:01 UTC
Investigating - We are currently investigating an issue affecting multiple services in our NYC2 region. Our engineering team is aware of the situation and is working to identify the root cause and restore full connectivity as quickly as possible.
Users with resources in the NYC2 region may experience issues with Droplet connectivity, API requests, or other services.
We will provide additional updates as more information becomes available. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

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