Shiven Ramji, the Head of Product at DigitalOcean, is reflecting on the company's accomplishments in 2017 and previewing its plans for 2018. In 2017, DigitalOcean shipped more products and features than ever before, including Load Balancers, Monitoring and Alerts, Cloud Firewalls, and Spaces. The company also expanded its availability of Block Storage to additional regions and introduced High CPU Droplets that deliver the best price-to-performance ratio for production applications. Shiven highlights the importance of listening to feedback from developer communities in driving product development and growth. In 2018, DigitalOcean aims to make it simple for businesses to scale their applications in production, with a focus on simplicity, elegance, and security. The company plans to introduce new Droplet plans, expand its Spaces service, add virtual network capabilities, and improve its monitoring and security features. Additionally, DigitalOcean is exploring ways to enable partners to provide their tools and services through its platform, and is committed to improving the developer experience throughout the year.