We're proud to be on the list of the 25 fastest-growing software vendors on Brex this fall. 🎉 Thank you to everyone building on Render. More to come.

How disposable software becomes the norm (originally posted at every.to/thesis-statements/a… Ask ChatGPT to analyze a spreadsheet, and it might write and run a Python script to find the answer. Once you have the answer, you may never need that script again. That is just-in-time, disposable software, and I expect most software run in the cloud will soon look like it. Today, we build applications around needs we can anticipate. We invest in code review, testing, and deployment pipelines because we expect people to keep using what we ship. When writing a program costs almost nothing and takes seconds, building one to answer a single question starts to make sense. Source control matters less for programs nobody will revise. We’ll need verification that works as code is generated and executed, without a human reading every line. Permissions and spending limits have to hold even when the program was written moments before it ran, and we’ll still need a record of what it did. Agents will also take over the infrastructure decisions engineers now make in tools like Terraform. One task needs a few seconds of compute; the next needs a powerful machine for days. The agent will acquire those resources through cloud APIs, within the task’s budget and security constraints, and release them when it’s done. This is application-defined compute: the software chooses its infrastructure as it does the work. This will make it practical to solve problems that never justified a full software project. A task can have its own software, even if nobody ever needs to do it again.

Self-writing docs sounded like a hallucination until @GuildAI showed the receipts at Render PR.ide. Their docs agent watches every merged PR and drafts updates itself. Result: 130 stale doc PRs closed in one weekend, zero since. Agents need a control plane. Here's why: piped.video/bT9C2EAiqKE

Render now supports OIDC for Google Cloud Platform. Authenticate to GCP via Workload Identity Federation — no static credentials, no manual rotation. Render manages short-lived tokens automatically per service. To learn more → render.com/docs/oidc

We’re investigating an incident affecting builds and deployments across all regions. Deployments for free services are temporarily paused. Our team is working on a fix. We’ll share updates on our status page: status.render.com/incidents/…

You can now build, preview, and deploy code from @cursor_ai Origin repos on Render: → Install the Render app from the Origin marketplace → Deploy code as a Render service → Get automatic builds, PR previews, and zero-downtime deploys

Mixtiles makes products meant to make a house feel more like home. No DevOps team, demand up to 10x. After an outage at their previous provider, online ordering was live on Render in about 5 hours. The rest followed one service at a time. Full story - render.com/customers/mixtile…

Manage your Render infrastructure without leaving the terminal. Learn how to: - Trigger deployments - Manage Postgres & KV stores - SSH directly into web services - Install Render Agent Skills - Automate CI/CD pipelines with non-interactive mode Full video: piped.video/watch?v=pILqLLFi…

What if we treated data pipelines like any other software service? → Aggregate first, store second → Stand up right-sized services with IaC → Leverage production observability Our latest blog with Turbolytics explores data's DevOps moment: render.com/blog/data-needs-i…

I asked our agent for SaaStr AI Connect live with @HarryStebbings + @rodriscoll today if we wanted to move hosting ... where should we go? It picked Render over Railway and Vercel.  "My pick". Honestly I had never heard of it.  Maybe I should have, but I never had. Now we'll test it -- first. That's how you get leads in The Agent Age

Six weeks. $60,000+ in prizes. Drum roll please! The PayPal AI Hackathon: Build What's Next with PayPal and AI is live. Whether you're a developer, an AI builder, a founder, or a student, here's your chance to use your imagination and build with AI, with PayPal has your back as the trusted payment layer. With free tools, credits, and support from our partners: Postman, Zapier, Elastic, APIMatic, AG Grid, Bryntum, Channel3, Render, , Astropods, Kernel Submissions open Oct 1 and close Nov 12. Learn more and register: paypalaihackathon.devpost.co…

Render is now a supported connector in @FactoryAI. Assign a task to a Droid and it can write the code, set up the services and database it needs, and deploy it to Render. Connect Render in Factory to get started 👇 app.factory.ai/settings/conn…

Cool conversation @WeAreDevs on the main stage with @anuraggoel and leaders from sentry, blackbox ai, and cognition: Running AI written software in production

Building production-ready agentic workloads used to be hard. Render makes this much easier with Application-Defined Compute.

Come watch @anuraggoel live on stage 1 at @WeAreDevs to learn how application defined compute is simplifying developers life!

If you're at @WeAreDevs in San Jose today, stop by the Render booth for cool swag and cooler conversations with our DX team about hosting your AI and agent workloads.