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When Americans choose Chinese AI

Stu Clott, an operations manager and part-time developer in San Diego, used to code with Claude. But he recently found a cheaper alternative: DeepSeek.  While an hourlong coding session would...

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Core Infrastructure Maintenance June 17, 2026, 09:00 UTC

Jun 17, 18:00 UTC
Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.

Jun 17, 09:00 UTC
In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.

Jun 17, 05:53 UTC
Scheduled - Core Infrastructure Maintenance

Start: 2025-06-17 09:00 UTC
End: 2025-06-17 18:00 UTC

During the above time, our Engineering Team will be performing maintenance to failover some internal databases from one cluster to another.

Existing infrastructure, including Droplets and Droplet-based services, should continue running without issue. There is no network disruption to existing services expected as part of this maintenance. However, there are dependencies on multiple services. During the failover, there may be customer impacts that should be brief and transitory.

Multiple teams will be engaged to keep downtime to a minimum and mitigate any impact that does occur. We’ll post updates here for any unexpected changes to this scheduled maintenance, as well as progress updates during the maintenance itself.

If you have any questions related to this issue please send us a ticket from your cloud support page. https://cloudsupport.digitalocean.com/s/createticket

Thank you,
Team DigitalOcean

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Intermittent 500 Errors on Serverless/GenAI Inference API

Jun 17, 00:29 UTC
Resolved - The connectivity issues affecting our Serverless/GenAI Inference API have been fully resolved.
Our engineering teams successfully completed the connectivity restoration. All systems should be functioning normally, and the endpoint should be fully operational.

Jun 16, 23:29 UTC
Monitoring - Our engineering teams have successfully begun implementing mitigation steps to resolve the connectivity issues affecting the inference API. We will provide another update once the API has fully recovered and error rates return to normal.

Jun 16, 22:00 UTC
Investigating - We are actively investigating an issue causing elevated HTTP 500 error rates for customers utilizing our Serverless/GenAI Inference API.
Customer Impact: Customers making calls to the inference API—specifically targeting /v1/* endpoints—will experience intermittent HTTP 500 errors and failed requests.

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SGP1 Network Maintenance

Jun 18, 17:30 UTC
Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.

Jun 18, 14:30 UTC
In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.

Jun 16, 14:32 UTC
Scheduled - Start: 2026-06-18 14:30 UTC
End: 2026-06-18 17:30 UTC

During the above window, our Networking team will be making changes to the core networking infrastructure to improve performance and scalability in the SGP1 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.

If you have any questions related to this issue, please send us a ticket from your cloud support page. https://cloudsupport.digitalocean.com/s/createticket

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Spotify’s post-English AI future

At the end of every year, Spotify Wrapped takes over social media feeds, with users showing off the annual recap of their top music choices. Lately, these reviews have taken...

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Workaround: guzzlehttp/psr7 update to allow composer updates

If you ran into the

Your requirements could not be resolved to an installable set of packages.

error message while running composer update today, see this issue:
https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/3599842

In brief, quoting the the issue:

While these were fixed a few weeks ago (see https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hq7v-mx3g-29hw), we can see the composer datasource was only registered with the vulnerabilities on June 11th.

and

You can temporarily fetch the 2.11.0 version of guzzlehttp/psr and alias it to 2.8.1 with this:
composer require "guzzlehttp/psr7:2.11.0 as 2.8.1"
Revert this once a new Drupal core is released by deleting the guzzlehttp/psr7": "2.11.0 as 2.8.1", line in composer.json, and then updating Drupal core.

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Can open-source beat OpenAI?

As the U.S. and China battle for artificial intelligence supremacy, a fundamental divide in engineering philosophy could determine the winner. While American pioneers like OpenAI and Anthropic favor a closed-source...

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I built a free, Drupal-aware SEO checker. Would love your feedback (and for you to try to break it)

I built a free, Drupal-aware SEO checker. Would love your feedback (and for you to try to break it)

I kept running into the same thing on Drupal sites:

the SEO basics (metatags, structured data, sitemap, clean URLs) were half-finished, and the generic online SEO checkers don't know anything about Drupal, so their advice is only half the solution.

So I built a small free tool that scans any URL and, if it detects Drupal, adds Drupal-specific checks on top of the usual technical and content ones.

Drupal SEO test

It gives you a score per category and a plain-language list of what to fix.

It's free, no sign-up!

Works on any site, but it's sharpest on Drupal.

Let me know your score!

https://webhaven.io/drupal-seo-test

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Introducing Bootiq, the new default theme for Bootiga.

Introducing Bootiq, the new default theme for Bootiga.

Built to deliver a modern, fast and conversion-focused shopping experience, Bootiq enhances every part of your online store:
✅ Clean and professional design
✅ Mobile-first experience
✅ Layout Builder integration
✅ Improved product pages and catalogs
✅ Powered by Drupal Commerce
Bootiq is the result of months of work refining the ecommerce experience inside Bootiga.
Want to launch your online store in minutes?
Try Bootiga for free at www.bootiga.com

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Advice for preparing for a Drupal-focused technical intervie

Hi everyone,

I have an upcoming technical interview for a Drupal-focused full-stack role, and I would appreciate some guidance from experienced Drupal developers.

From my conversation with the interviewer, I expect the interview to involve reviewing existing code, tracing complete workflows, identifying production issues, and explaining improvements. The organization is also planning work around upgrading from Drupal 10 to Drupal 11.

The areas I believe may be covered include:

  • Custom modules, routes, controllers, services, entities, and forms
  • Twig, Drupal behaviors, AJAX, and JavaScript
  • Caching, queues, cron, and external API integrations
  • SQL, database consistency, and performance
  • Testing and deployment
  • Drupal 10-to-11 upgrade readiness
  • Composer dependencies, deprecated APIs, and contributed-module compatibility

My background is stronger in general software engineering than in PHP and Drupal. I have been using AI-assisted exercises and small Drupal code-review challenges to prepare, but I want to make sure I am learning the right concepts and not developing an unrealistic understanding of production Drupal work.

For someone interviewing at roughly the three-year experience level:

  1. What Drupal concepts would you consider essential?
  2. What code-review or debugging exercises should I practice?
  3. What questions are commonly asked about Drupal 10-to-11 upgrades?
  4. How deeply should I understand Symfony, Composer, Drush, testing, SQL, and deployment?
  5. What mistakes do candidates commonly make in Drupal technical interviews?

Any practical examples, learning resources, or advice about what to prioritize would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

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