🧠 Food for thought

Implications, context, and why it matters.

Render’s funding rides Heroku’s slowdown and hyperscaler setup pain

• Render’s growth has climbed as older platforms have lost momentum.
• Salesforce said it was backing away from developing new features for its pioneering platform Heroku, which pushed developers to look for a mature replacement 1.
• Render pitches itself as easier than hyperscalers like Amazon Web Services, which can take weeks to configure even for companies with large platform engineering teams (the internal teams that build and maintain developer tooling and cloud infrastructure) 2.
• Render’s CEO said revenue growth is “well above 100%” 1.
• Render is testing its own servers alongside AWS and Google Cloud Platform, a move that could lower costs and give the company more control over infrastructure 1.

AI code generation speeds builds while deployment stays messy

• AI-assisted coding makes software easier to create, while deploying it on traditional cloud providers still creates headaches 2.
• Render’s CEO said AI chatbots have “almost singlehandedly, grown our business” 1.
• This trend is pushing cloud infrastructure toward a smoother product experience, which can reduce reliance on dedicated DevOps teams (specialists who manage deployments, reliability, and operations) 3.
• That momentum supports platforms like Render as a new “control plane” for developers (the central place to manage deployments and operations) that sits on top of hyperscalers’ raw infrastructure 4.