We’re incredibly sorry for all the email notifications for maintenance.
We’ve fixed the issue and for those concerned, we’re doing okay. Our email server on the other hand, not so much.
We’ve raised a $50M Series B led by
@BessemerVP
! 🎉
With over 500,000 developers on our platform and websites and workloads running on Render that serve over 1 billion visits monthly, we’re well on our way to building the modern cloud.
There's a new 🪵 Log Explorer 🪵 in your Render dashboard!
Search, filter, and jump to critical log lines in seconds ⏱️
For teams, the explorer also shows HTTP logs for web service requests!
pgvector is now available for Render PostGreSQL databases!
pgvector is a PostGreSQL extension that lets you harness the power of AI and build semantic search into your apps on Render 🎉
This month, Render engineer
@ericliuus
migrated the Sveld open source library from Yarn/Vitest to
@bunjavascript
.
Deploys sped up 2x. Code became more readable.
Check out the speed breakdowns, code diffs, and migration steps in his post—then try out Render’s native Bun support!
In February, Fey simplified their infra—and saved over $72,000/year.
Their new stack:
@OpenAI
,
@inngest
, and
@render
Learn from
@brotzky_
why they moved off GCP, and how Fey uses genAI to make financial research a breeze:
Everything is back up after
@Cloudflare
fixed the issue on their end. We will follow up with them and publish a detailed analysis of the incident once we have all the details. Again, really sorry for the trouble folks.
Now in early access: ✨Pre-deploy command✨
Run tasks just before each deploy of your service, such as database migrations or asset uploads.
Enable from your Account / Team settings page!
More info:
Discover how Propeller Digital, a 7-person eCommerce agency, switched to self-hosting on Render after a site they built degraded due to high traffic.
In just a week, they migrated to an auto-scaling
@medusajs
instance hosted on
@render
. This move solved the problem, secured a
In your dashboard as of right now: 📈Enhanced service metrics📈
• CPU, RAM, and disk usage for each instance
• HTTP request volume, segmented by response code
• Custom time ranges with drag-to-zoom
• For teams: HTTP response latency, plus filtering by request path/domain
Today, the Zero DevOps Cloud Platform (ahem,
@render
) announces our Winter 2022 features release!
💥🌨❄️📈❄️🌨️💥️️
In other words, it's snowing features...
Teams can now enable ✨High Availability✨ for large PostgreSQL databases!
Automatically fail over to a standby database in under 60 seconds when your primary encounters an issue. Routine maintenance windows are under a minute too ⏱️
More on our blog:
Today we added over 50 new capabilities to the Render API:
• Create and manage datastores
• Subscribe to service logs
• Organize projects and environments
• Update notification settings
…and more!
Get started with your first API request:
ReadMe powers the API documentation for 5000+ companies—with only 20 engineers.
After 8 years on Heroku, ReadMe decided to migrate to Render.
Learn why they made the move, and how they did it with under 2 minutes of downtime:
Render’s REST API is now available in early access! Beginning with Custom Domain endpoints, we’ll continue to launch new endpoints over the next few weeks. Send us an email at support
@render
.com if you'd like to be added to our first early access cohort.
You came, you rendered, and we listened.
Tried using our free plans to deploy a web service that wouldn't quite start?
Go ahead and try again, and enjoy 512MB of memory 🙇
Want to speed up your DB queries?
3 useful tools & concepts:
🔎 `EXPLAIN` and `EXPLAIN ANALYZE`
🛠️ Join algorithms
🎨 PEV2
These helped us debug and fix a slow query taking hours to run:
Quick summary 👇
Onward! We’ve raised a $20 million Series A lead by Lee Fixel’s Addition. Excited to continue building a cloud platform that empowers developers and teams to invest in what matters: their people, products, and services. 🚀
Read more here 👉
Our friends at
@Cloudflare
are the best in the world at protecting customers from DDoS attacks. Rather than re-invent that wheel, we abstract the service for our customers; DDoS protection is simply included in all Render service deployments.
New in early access - Deploy your own container image on Render!
* Blazing fast deploys 🏎️
* Fewer Dockerfiles 🗑️
* Native integration with public and private container registries 🔐
A huge quality-of-life improvement for Docker-ready developers!
So serverless infra auto-scales as traffic bursts, but has a much higher per-request cost vs a single box. BUT—we have tools like k8's to auto-scale to multiple boxes
Which is what
@render
seems to do 👀
Why isn't this more popular? What am I missing?
We're excited to announce Log Streams: our recommended way to use external logging providers with your Render services. Log Streams are currently compatible with
@LogDNA
and
@papertrailapp
, and support for other providers is coming soon.
We built a plugin for the Heroku CLI to help you migrate. It reads information about your app and its add-ons, and automatically creates a render.yaml file and Dockerfile. This gets you started with a Blueprint for your services in
@render
.
We sincerely apologize for the service disruption on March 26 and continue to investigate the incident. We're gathering the facts and drafting mitigation and prevention measures.
We will publish a detailed incident report as soon as the investigation is complete, no later than
Render is now available in AWS Marketplace!
Effortlessly deploy apps and datastores to the same regions and data centers as your AWS infra. With a Render Enterprise plan, connect Render to AWS-hosted systems via PrivateLink.
Learn more:
We're thrilled that
@stolinski
chose Render to host the latest and greatest version of
@LevelUpTuts
. Learn about all the tech upgrades behind the newest version of the site on
@syntaxfm
!
Render serves over 40 Billion requests every month—and each of them needs to reach the right service.
@JakeMalachowski
recounts how our networking layer has evolved to distribute routing state for over a million apps running around the world:
There is an ongoing
@cloudflare
incident leading to errors on Render websites and APIs. Stay tuned. We will continue to update . You can also follow for updates.
Render now supports
@Bitbucket
! 🪣
Connect your Bitbucket repository and start shipping with automatic deploys, service previews, and native language runtimes.
As a web2 moron, I gotta say
@render
really is nice to use. They expect you to understand your own code, but their services work, it's cheap, and way lower learning curve than the whole AWS stack (EC2, S3, Amplify, etc). Can recommend
Prebuilt Docker image deploys are generally available! 🐳
🔐 Pull public and private images from your registry,
⚡️ Deploy them with lightning speed,
👋 And say farewell to unnecessary duplicate builds.
Read all about it:
We've added a couple handy features for Render Blueprints, our Infrastructure-as-Code model.
#1
: You can now generate a render.yaml file from your existing services to start managing them with a Blueprint (or to quickly replicate your infrastructure):
Autoscaling has been the most requested
@render
feature for some time; we're excited to announce it's now available in early access 🎊
See for more. We'd love to get your take on it!
Have confidence that your data is safe, regardless of what happens, with Point-in-Time Recovery for Render Postgres.
Set up Point-in-Time Recovery today and give yourself and your dev team peace of mind.
Monorepo support is in EA: 🧰 If you have multiple services on Render backed by a single git repository, you can use Build Filters to configure which services Render will build and deploy when you push changes to specific files. 🗂
Ruby 3.3 was released earlier today 🥳
YJIT is the star of the release, giving applications a big performance boost without changing a single line of code.
Try it out on Render by updating your Gemfile or using the RUBY_VERSION environment variable 🚀
At Render, we see many users pull directly from PostgreSQL to do data analysis, and even to train genAI models.
If this is you, you probably know to randomly sample large datasets to save time and money. 1/
New for teams: ✨Performance build pipeline✨
If your builds are hitting resource limits, run them on compute instances with higher RAM and CPU.
Plus: Pre-deploy command is now enabled for everyone!
See the blog for details on both:
Thatch runs on Render to help companies affordably offer flexible, tailored health benefits to their employees.
We chatted with Thatch's Head of Engineering Kristina Shia to learn more about their tech stack and engineering culture:
In case you missed it, we've launched a public API, native SSH, and early access to managed Redis so far, with less than 10% of the year complete. 📈⤴️↗️🆙
Autoscaling is available for all of your applications based on real-time resource consumption. Simply set your target CPU or memory utilization and watch your application scale instantly on your Render dashboard.
New for Render teams: 🔒Protected environments🔒
Only admins can perform potentially destructive actions on a protected environment, such as deleting services or modifying environment variables.
More in the docs:
New for Organization and Enterprise plans: Audit Logs
From the Render Dashboard, export a list of material actions performed by members of your team over a given time period.
Learn more:
Runtime versions, once concealed
Now in sight, mystery revealed
Service credentials, a shifting sand,
Can be changed, as teams demand
Weekend calls, issues at bay,
Happy coding, enjoy your day!
📣EXCITING UPDATE📣
Point-in-time Recovery is now available in Early Access!
More on this launch, feature updates, and bug fixes in the latest changelog:
Redwood ✨v0.31.0✨ has been released!
🥇 All generators now support
@typescript
🔐 Built-in support for verifiying webhooks
📦 New built-in deploy provider
@render
(non-serverless)
And a whole. Lot. More.👇
We’re hiring! Check out our new Careers page. Learn who we are, how we work, and explore open roles across Design, Engineering and Recruiting. Come join us!
"Educators, students, OSS projects, and hobbyists all lose out. Hundreds of thousands of websites will simply go offline because migrating or upgrading won’t be possible for their maintainers who may have moved on to other projects."
The $78 billion question: if every internal PaaS looks the same, why waste inordinate amounts of time and money on building and managing these platforms at every company?
a 🧵 👇
Our founder
@anuraggoel
shares the story of Render's earliest prototypes, our team's long-term vision, and how we go about building a rapidly growing platform to support every developer on the planet.
Listen to Code Story wherever you get your podcasts:
PostgreSQL 16 is now available for newly created Render databases 🎉
See the biggest additions in the original release notes for 16:
To move an existing Render database to PostgreSQL 16, check out our guide:
An update on the August 10 outage:
Like you, we want to ensure an incident like this never happens again, so we are working closely with Cloudflare to get accurate and comprehensive information on the root cause and mitigations Cloudflare and Render can put in place to keep your
The next big thing in ✨Monorepo Support✨ at Render:
We’re excited to release support for specifying a Root Directory in Early Access.
#DevOps
#webdevelopment
In adopting Kubernetes, we have traded the mostly well-understood complexity of AWS for a labyrinthian ecosystem that is as convoluted as it is inconsistent in quality.