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Render Achieves SOC 2 Type II Compliance

We're excited to announce that Render has achieved SOC 2 Type II compliance. We're ready to work with you....

  1. How BeerMenus Elevated its Craft with a Seamless Move to Render

    Issues with Heroku mounted, so BeerMenus founders migrated to Render. They reduced costs, gained better Support, and adopted game-changing features like Preview Environments....

    - Rosalind Benoit

  2. OpenSSL Patch

    Render services are not affected by the CVEs announced for OpenSSL 3.0 earlier today. We recommend that organizations patch OpenSSL 3.0.0 and above....

    - Ed Ropple

  3. Render Newsletter Vol. 4 - October 2022

    This periodical for the Render community keeps you up to date on new guides and content, product updates, and developer news....

    - Rosalind Benoit

  4. Shipping Monorepo Support

    Monorepo Support is now generally available for all Render customers. Your feedback has shaped what we've shipped and allowed us to design flexible features to help you define how...

    - Shantanu Joshi

  5. Render Newsletter Vol. 3 - September 2022

    This periodical for the Render community keeps you up to date on new guides and content, product updates, and developer news....

    - Rosalind Benoit

  6. It's Never Been Easier to Move from Heroku to Render

    In light of Heroku ending its free tier, Render's powered up our Heroku importer to better enable you to bring your applications from Heroku to Render....

    - Ed Ropple

  7. Render Newsletter Vol. 2 - August 2022

    This periodical for the Render community keeps you up to date on new guides and content, product updates, and developer news....

    - Rosalind Benoit

  8. ...It Works Fine Locally

    When you’re ready to deploy to production, it can be frustrating to find that your project that worked perfectly on your machine is now throwing errors in the cloud. As you can…

    - Alan Pennell-Smith

  9. SQL Insights Stripe App is Live

    Stripe announced their App Marketplace at the end of May, and today it’s open to all Stripe merchants. We’re excited to share that our SQL Insights app for Stripe is in public beta…

    - Chris Castle

  10. Render Newsletter Vol. 1 - July 2022

    This periodical for the Render community keeps you up to date on new guides and content, product updates, and developer news....

    - Rosalind Benoit

  11. Migrate a Django App from Heroku to Render (and get it ready for prod)

    This guide to moving an existing Django app over to Render walks you through creating a Blueprint to deploy a production-ready instance of the e-commerce app Saleor....

    - Rosalind Benoit

  12. Sneak Peek: SQL Insights Stripe App

    Today, Stripe announced the launch of the Stripe App Marketplace. We’re excited to share that we built a Render Stripe App as part of the public beta launch! Here’s an early look…

    - Chris Castle

  13. Migrate a Rails App from Heroku to Render

    Render makes it quick to deploy a Ruby on Rails app, but if you're moving an existing Rails app over to Render, it might not be obvious where to start. We've created a lanugage- an...

    - Chris Castle

  14. Building a Developer Experience with RedwoodJS and Render

    Building with Redwood on Render lets Pullflow focus on winning over teams, user by user, to upgrade their developer experience. Learn how they build product based on empathy....

    - Rosalind Benoit

  15. Render, Remix, and Strapi: Let's Build a Productivity Tips App

    Did you miss our StrapiConf 2022 Workshop about deploying Strapi and Remix together on Render? The workshop attendees created their own Productivity Tips app that they can use to…

    - Chris Castle

  16. Expanding Global Reach: APAC & U.S. East

    Today, we announce the General Availability of Render’s expansion into two new regions to best serve our current and future customers: local hosting for U.S. East in Ohio and for A...

    - Rosalind Benoit

  17. Render Redis®*

    Today, we're announcing the General Availability of Render Redis. You can now set up a Redis instance in a few clicks and then let Render handle the heavy lifting running it reliab...

    - Kelley Rivoire

  18. Design Patterns for Building Reusable Svelte Components

    Well-designed, reusable components allow software developers to benefit from layers of abstraction, building upon each other’s work instead of reinventing the wheel. There are…

    - Eric Liu

  19. Remote Debugging with SSH and VS Code

    I was pretty excited when I discovered Telnet back in the 90s. I could access a command line on servers all over the college campus from my tiny dorm room! I no longer had to…

    - Chris Castle

  20. Password Protection with OAuth2 Proxy

    - Chris Castle

  21. SSH, API, Redis...oh my!

    Welcome API, native SSH, Redis, and DDoS. We're starting 2022 as THE modern cloud provider with support for many more use cases at scale and an incredible developer experience....

    - Rosalind Benoit

  22. Password Protect Static Sites with PageCrypt

    Password protecting static sites is tricky. You could use window.prompt() to ask a site visitor to enter a password before the site content is revealed, but a resourceful visitor will quickly get…

    - Chris Castle

  23. Git Organized: A Better Git Flow

    Development is rarely a linear process, and our commits tend to reflect this. Here you'll learn about a git flow for faster PR reviews and an keeping your git history organized....

    - Annie Sexton

  24. Free DDoS Protection for All Users

    A few months ago, Render quietly became the first full-stack Platform-as-a-Service to offer completely free DDoS protection to every application and website hosted on our platform....

    - Chris Castle

  25. All New Free Instance Types On Render

    We’re launching free instance types that allow you to deploy and run web services and databases on Render at no charge. Explore new tech, build personal projects, and preview the R...

    - Hari Demirev

  26. Render's $20 Million Series A

    Today we announce a new milestone in our journey to eliminate DevOps: $20 million in new funding led by Addition....

    - Anurag Goel

  27. Use One-Click Deploys for Secure Online VS Code

    Guide to setting up OpenVSCode Server on Render, using blueprints, and adding one-click deploy buttons....

    - Rosalind Benoit

  28. From Hypervisor to Next Generation Cloud: Uma Chingunde on Cloudflare TV

    Engineering VP Uma Chingunde on abstraction, VMware, and Render on Cloudflare TV....

    - Rosalind Benoit

  29. How to Build an Anycast Network

    When you type a URL into your address bar, your browser performs a DNS lookup to resolve the human-readable domain name to an IP address necessary for networking software, for…

    - Jake Malachowski

  30. So, You Want to Hire a UX Engineer?

    Picture this- you’ve got the best product ever. Life changing! Truly, yours is the company that will shift the very foundation of software engineering itself. Your backend is…

    - Danielle Schugars

  31. Host a Dev Environment on Render with VS Code and Tailscale

    At Render, most of the apps we use are web apps. We use Slack for chat, Linear for issue tracking, Slab for knowledge sharing, and GitHub for change management. Render is itself a…

    - David Mauskop

  32. What's New in PostgreSQL 14?

    - Chris Castle

  33. Why Render

    When I joined Stripe in 2011, the company had four full-time engineers. Even then, one of them was focused exclusively on managing our AWS infrastructure. By the time I left in…

    - Anurag Goel