Render ushers in a modern age of application development in the cloud

Originally published in Bessemer’s Atlas (co-authored by Elliott Robinson, Janelle Teng, and Grace Ma). Render has also open-sourced its Series B Pitch Deck that can be accessed here. Over the last decade, the modern data stack and developer platform ecosystem have undergone a major transformation. There have been broad industry shifts such as the unbundling of monolithic workloads into microservices. Cutting-edge, specialized tools have emerged in countless categories such as authentication, database, compute, and storage, among others. Developers now also have flexible architecture options such as containers, Kubernetes, static sites, and a host of modern networking protocols. While the landscape has evolved, accessibility of these tools for cloud application developers haven’t kept pace with the rate of infrastructure and tooling innovation. Developers are excited about building applications with these new capabilities, but the process to get projects online is still tedious, expens

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• Alson Chan