DigitalOcean has been running a summer internship program for the past few years, which provides opportunities for students to work with various teams across the organization. The first group of interns, known as "minnows," worked together in teams and contributed to projects such as improving One Click Apps and developing a feature to provide users with webhooks for alerts related to their Droplets. This program was designed to pay it forward to young technologists who want to work in the cloud and help build the next set of great companies. The company has invested significant time and resources into monitoring for Distributed Denial of Service (DoS) attacks and creating a system to track this data, known as the Flood Monitoring System (FMS), which uses technologies such as Apache Kafka, Apache Hadoop, and Golang.