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- Render content from you
- Stuff from the web we think you’ll like
- Our latest product updates
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Write On
(posts, guides,and videos from our team)
Migrate a Rails app from Heroku to Render
Walk through migrating a non-trivial Ruby on Rails app to Render with Dev Advocate Chris Castle, using https://git-scm.org, an OSS production Rails application running on Heroku.
Migrate a Django app to Render (and get it ready for prod)
Join Rosalind Benoit to translate app.json and Docker Compose files into a Blueprint, move a Django app from Heroku, and deploy a prod-ready instance of the e-commerce app Saleor.
Borko vs. Bojan | Klustered
Watch Render engineer Borko battling his twin in a live Kubernetes debugging challenge (read: learning experience for participants AND viewers) hosted by Rawkode Academy.
Deploy Deno to Render
Chris Castle’s example deployment of Deno joined render-examples a while back, and we’re happy to congratulate Deno on its recent raise of a $21M Series A 🥂
Render in the Wild
(Render content from you)
Making a Static Site blog
DJ Hoffman
Follow this tutorial inspired by the Markdoc content authoring system to build a blog on Render using a React Static Site.
How to deploy a Docz site on Render
Ronnie Atuhaire â‹… Aviyel
Use Render to deploy a Hello World site with Docz, a GatsbyJS generator for creating custom interactive documentation sites that use MDX.
Render, Remix, and Strapi: Let’s build a productivity tips app
Chigozie Oduah â‹… Strapi Blog
Learn how to build a productivity tips app using Render, Remix and Strapi in this tutorial based on a workshop from Dev Advocate Chris Castle.
How to create PR review apps with Render
Tyler Hawkins â‹… Dev.to
Learn to to enable review of UI changes by configuring PR review apps that deploy changes in a preview environment identical to prod.
Migrating from Heroku to Render
Benjamin Patton â‹… Hackernoon
Find out how quick it is to make the move from Heroku to Render with a simple Node.js app using Postgres and Redis add-ons.
Curated & Concatenated
(stuff from around the web we think you’ll like)
Kelsey Hightower on how to become a better engineering team
Jennifer Riggins â‹… The New Stack
Read KH’s eminent wisdom on honing high-performing teams by fostering collab, clear ownership, and customer empathy. Borrow practical questions for your teams.
How to build a Notion clone with Strapi v4 and Next.js
Hubert Nare â‹… Strapi Blog
The first article in this series teaches you to set up a Strapi backend with a GraphQL, use the admin interface to configure collections you’ll use in a Notion clone, and perform CRUD operations in the playground.
How we built Hydrogen: A React framework for building custom storefronts
Josh Larsonâ‹… Shopify Engineering
Get a look at the experimentation that went into Hydrogen, a dev-first React framework for building custom storefronts that deploys to any Node env. React Server Components, Vite, and Taliwind for the win.
TZ: A time-zone helper
tz, an interactive TUI program written in Go, helps you schedule things across time zones by displaying time across the time zones of your choosing. Try it: brew install tz
Render, Getting Shinier
(our latest product updates)
- Monorepo Support is in EA.
- Fully managed Redis instances are GA.
- Postgres monitoring with Datadog is GA.
- Local hosting regions for U.S. East in Ohio and APAC in Singapore are GA.
- The Render Security page is live with information about our security posture and commitment to best practices.
- The PostgreSQL to S3 Backups page is live with a guide to using Cron Jobs to control backup frequency and retention.
Chirp
(noteworthy tweet of the month)
Okay @heroku, enough is enough!
— Giorgi Mzrnsh (@mzrnsh) June 20, 2022
Hey @render, here I come 👋
Just right now, when someone wanted to sign up for https://t.co/Z6i6Q7joyY, it was down for no known reasons.
And the Heroku status page is as green as the dollar bills I will never get from those lost visitors!