Our tutorials help people like you solve some of their trickiest problems. Whether they're building out some infrastructure or writing a web application, readers trust our tutorials because they're written for developers by developers.

We'd love your help publishing articles that help developers get their apps into production.

We're particularly interested in the following types of articles:

• Tutorials that walk readers through using or deploying software on Kubernetes.
• Tutorials that show readers how to use DigitalOcean products like Spaces, Block Storage, and Load Balancers in real-world applications.
• Production-focused tutorials covering topics like load balancing, automatic backups, database management, failovers, security, monitoring, logging, vertical/horizontal scaling, testing, optimization, etc.
• Project-focused software development tutorials in Python or JavaScript that walk the reader through creating a project from start to finish.

In addition, we're looking for tutorials on the following topics:

• How To Use and Write Reusable Terraform Modules
• How To Ensure your CI/CD Pipeline Is Healthy
• How To Use Inspec to Test your Chef Deployment on Ubuntu 16.04
• How To Set Up a Distributed Object Storage System with Minio on Ubuntu 18.04
• How To Deploy a Go Web Application with Docker and Nginx on Ubuntu 18.04
• How To Deploy a Fault-Tolerant MongoDB Sharded Cluster on Ubuntu 18.04
• How To Roll Your Own CI Service
• How To Use CI to Improve your Development Process

If you need additional inspiration, here are some examples of recent tutorials we've published that illustrate what we're looking for:

• How To Display Data from the DigitalOcean API with React
• How To Build a Neural Network to Recognize Handwritten Digits with TensorFlow
• How to Back Up, Import, and Migrate Your Apache Kafka Data on Ubuntu 18.04
• How to Set Up an Nginx Ingress with Cert-Manager on DigitalOcean Kubernetes

To share your knowledge on any of these topics by writing a tutorial for the DigitalOcean community, apply to the Write For DOnations program by submitting a writing sample in our style. We'll evaluate your sample and, once you're approved, we'll work with you to develop an outline for your topic and help you get published.

We can't wait to see your writing sample. And if you have other topic ideas, just let us know when you apply.