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 🎉
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:
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!
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:
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, the Zero DevOps Cloud Platform (ahem,
@render
) announces our Winter 2022 features release!
💥🌨❄️📈❄️🌨️💥️️
In other words, it's snowing features...
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
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 🙇
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!
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 👉
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 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…
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'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
!
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
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.
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):
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 🚀
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. 🗂
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:
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. 📈⤴️↗️🆙
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:
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!
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:
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.
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!
📣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.👇
"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."
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:
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 🧵 👇
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
Story time!
Last year, Render's K8s clusters felt the stress of a massive surge in Free-tier apps.
@hieu_am_i
recounts how we mitigated that stress with some clever tweaks to Knative:
@pullflow
@redwoodjs
We sat down with founder
@zakmandhro
to understand how Redwood and Render fit into Pullflow's vision. Learn about his builder journey on our blog:
This February, a simple query blocked our staging pipeline.
Can you spot the problem?
✅ Both sides of the join had relevant indexes.
✅ The query had a `LIMIT 1`.
🤔 It still took hours to run.
(If you have a hypothesis already… we're hiring 😉: )
Projects are now available for all developers on the Team plan or above.
With projects, you can organize your app's services, making it easier for you and your team to manage and collaborate on your apps.✨
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.
You can use Oauth2-proxy to password protect multiple Render Private Services.
@crc
wrote a blog post about how it works and how to set it up on Render.
You can now deploy Render services to Virginia (US East)!
Eager to migrate from Heroku to Render but need to stay in Virginia? Now's the time.
Virginia's in early access while it cools from the oven, but it's feature-complete and available to everyone.
We’ve published an incident report for the August 10 HTTP outage: .
Please reach out to us if you have questions. We want you to feel confident about using Render to run your most critical workloads, and we’re here to help.
The main changes:
News agg ->
@OpenAI
Airflow ->
@inngest
Compute Engine/Kube ->
@render
We could've saved even more but DX and speed is critical for us. What we've landed on is the perfect balance for our skillset and goals.
We built Render to meet the evolving needs of modern applications. Open source innovators like
@jsdelivr
embody exactly the type of technical innovation and ingenuity we're excited to support!
The engineering team at
@felt
builds fast and ships often—sometimes over 15 times a day!
Felt's CTO Can Duruk shares what goes into supporting their culture of rapid iteration (including a helpful hand from Render preview environments):
Are you building with Rust on Render? Here's some good news from our engineering team! Rust Build times have reduced from ~800 seconds to 100-300 seconds.🏃🏽♂️🏃🏽♂️🏃🏽♂️