The Challenge Distributed Technologies, Distributed Systems, and Distributed Teams DigitalOcean’s business has grown exponentially over the last four years. The company has more than one million users and has shipped seven new offerings in the last 18 months. DigitalOcean’s legacy code was written in PERL and Ruby, but the team switched to Go, so they could better support the development velocity they needed for new product features and an increasingly complex distributed environment. To support this growth and evolution, the leadership team decided to hire globally. Enabling teams to work across distributed locations was the best strategy to attract diverse, top-tier talent. The engineering team was thrilled to have the breadth of experience and knowledge that new hires acros

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