Creating and editing a Frontpage or flexible Landing Page has always been a struggle in Drupal. Layout Builder has been left unfinished and (layout_)paragraphs is quite an investment upfront. Now that we have SDCs, we can reuse components and the best of all: Two major Drupal page builders are reaching maturity quickly: Canvas and Display Builder.
This is the third part of or Canvas vs Display Builder series that covers the three most prolific use cases we could think of. But pretty sure it will not be the last part!
I kept hearing about entrepreneurs in China running “one-person companies” with the help of artificial intelligence agents, which handle everything from coding to managing emails. How well do agents work?...
Chinese tech giants are quietly shrinking their workforce — echoing a pattern playing out in Silicon Valley. In 2025, e-commerce major Alibaba reduced its head count by 34% as it...
Apr 30, 19:00 UTC Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Apr 30, 16:00 UTC In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Apr 28, 16:19 UTC Scheduled - Start: Apr 30, 2026, 16:00 UTC to End: Apr 30, 2026, 19:00 UTC
During the above window, our Networking team will be making changes to the core networking infrastructure to improve performance and scalability in the FRA1 region.
Expected impact:
We do not anticipate any downtime for Droplets or Droplet-related services, including Managed Databases, Load Balancers, App Platform, and Managed Kubernetes, as this maintenance has been carefully designed and tested to be seamless. In the unlikely event that an undetected misconfiguration occurs, a subset of customers could experience temporary network disruption. We will endeavor to keep this to a minimum for the duration of the change.
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Apr 28, 19:33 UTC Resolved - All services are operating normally. We will continue to monitor the system to ensure ongoing reliability.
Thank you for your patience while we worked to resolve this issue.
Apr 28, 19:00 UTC Monitoring - Service for Serverless Inference has been restored. We’ve implemented tighter rate limits to help prevent recurrence and are closely monitoring system performance. Some users may still experience intermittent latency as we complete final stabilization efforts. Our team remains actively engaged to ensure full recovery. We appreciate your patience and will provide further updates as needed.
Apr 28, 15:59 UTC Identified - We have identified an issue affecting our service and are currently working to implement a fix. Our team is actively investigating and taking the necessary steps to restore normal operations as quickly as possible.
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Apr 28, 13:45 UTC Investigating - Serverless inference customers are experiencing elevated 5xx errors, including “context canceled” responses. This may result in intermittent request failures. Our team is actively investigating and will provide updates as more information becomes available.
Apr 30, 06:43 UTC Completed - During the dry-run for the scheduled SFO2 Network Maintenance , our team identified some potential risks that need to be addressed to ensure a smoother and safer implementation. As a result, we are cancelling the current maintenance window and will be rescheduling it to 2026-05-04 13:00-15:00 UTC.
Thank you for your understanding and patience as we work to improve performance and scalability.
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Apr 28, 13:16 UTC Scheduled - Start: Apr 30, 2026, 13:00 UTC End: Apr 30, 2026, 15:00 UTC
During the above window, our Networking team will be making changes to the core networking infrastructure to improve performance and scalability in the SFO2 region.
Expected impact:
We do not anticipate any downtime for Droplets or Droplet-related services, including Managed Databases, Load Balancers, App Platform, and Managed Kubernetes, as this maintenance has been carefully designed and tested to be seamless. In the unlikely event that an undetected misconfiguration occurs, a subset of customers could experience temporary network disruption. We will endeavor to keep this to a minimum for the duration of the change.
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[not a promotion] One of the developers on our team just wrapped up a deep-dive webinar on how we’re using the ECA (Event - Condition - Action) module alongside Drupal's new AI features.
If you've ever felt like you're writing too much custom code for simple entity triggers or workflow logic, this is definitely worth a look. The session walks through how to build visual automation models that can trigger AI actions (like auto-tagging or content analysis) without touching a custom module.
We’ve been moving more of our production logic over to ECA lately to keep things maintainable. Curious to hear if anyone else is using ECA + AI in their current projects, or if you’re still sticking to custom hooks for complex logic?
Apr 30, 12:00 UTC Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Apr 30, 10:00 UTC In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Apr 28, 10:14 UTC Scheduled - Start: Apr 30, 2026, 10:00 UTC End: Apr 30, 2026, 12:00 UTC
Hello,
During the above window, our Networking team will be making changes to the core networking infrastructure to improve performance and scalability in the NYC1 region.
Expected impact:
We do not anticipate any downtime for Droplets or Droplet-related services, including Managed Databases, Load Balancers, App Platform, and Managed Kubernetes, as this maintenance has been carefully designed and tested to be seamless. In the unlikely event that an undetected misconfiguration occurs, a subset of customers could experience temporary network disruption. We will endeavor to keep this to a minimum for the duration of the change.
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As rising conflict and forced displacement drive unprecedented humanitarian needs, adoption of artificial intelligence in humanitarian work has the potential to scale services for some of the most vulnerable populations...
Has anyone successfully managed to use cloud storage with flysystem and S3 or Google Cloud Storage without the performance trade-off when generating image styles? My experience was terrible, even with image styles warmer module. The application heavily uses images and multiple image styles in addition to responsive images, which generate multiple resolutions per image.
Hi, I really would appreciate advice on a Drupal challenge I face. I'm managing the Drupal website of my orchestra, it started on version 10 and was recently upgrade to 11 by the DirectAdmin maintenance of the provider. Since the upgrade the site is unstable - running composer yields many pages of patches/upgrades after which the site breaks down completely.
As a solution I now setup a fresh v11 site that works fine.
The only small workload left is to export/import the content from the old site to the new one.
This is my first experience with a CMS platform - but have 20 years experience with self-built dynamic websites. For these, contents and platform are nicely separated and can be exported/import with little hassle.
I suppose Drupal also stores the contents (pages/articles) separated from the platform and that export/import should be breeze. However, I failed to find the protocol for this. Am I too naive ? Which tables have the contents ? Which cross-references should be updated after import ?
Apr 27, 11:37 UTC Resolved - The issue is resolved, and service is operating normally.
Apr 27, 11:07 UTC Monitoring - We identified the cause of intermittent HTTP 429 responses affecting some customers using Anthropic models on DigitalOcean Serverless Inference and applied a mitigation. Service has recovered, and we are monitoring stability.
Apr 27, 10:38 UTC Investigating - We are investigating an issue affecting some customers using DigitalOcean Serverless Inference with Anthropic models. Over the last two hours, impacted customers may have experienced intermittent request failures, including HTTP 429 responses, on some Anthropic model requests. Our engineering team is actively investigating the issue. We apologize for the inconvenience and will share another update as soon as more information is available.
A Sam Altman-backed technology that many governments rejected is finding traction in the American corporate world. On April 17, World, a project designed to distinguish humans from bots using biometrics,...
Apr 29, 15:29 UTC Completed - During the dry-run for the scheduled Core Infrastructure Maintenance, our team identified some potential risks that need to be addressed to ensure a smoother and safer implementation. As a result, we are cancelling the current maintenance window and will be rescheduling it to 2026-05-04 13:00-21:00 UTC.
Thank you for your understanding and patience as we work to improve performance and scalability.
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Apr 29, 13:00 UTC In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Apr 27, 09:35 UTC Scheduled - Start: 2026-04-29 13:00 UTC End: 2026-04-29 21:00 UTC
Hello,
During the above window, our Engineering team will be performing maintenance on core control plane infrastructure. Please note that the existing infrastructure will continue running without issue. This maintenance may impact create, read, update, and delete (CRUD) operations in all regions.
Expected Impact:
During the maintenance window, users may experience brief periods of increased latency with the following platform operations:
Cloud Control Panel and API operations Event processing Droplet creates, resizes, rebuilds, and power events Managed Kubernetes reconciliation and scaling Load Balancer operations Container Registry operations App Platform operations Managed Database creation and scaling
We do not expect any impact to customer traffic due to this maintenance. If an unexpected issue for the control plane arises, we will endeavor to keep any impact to a minimum and may revert if required.
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