Adrian Duong

@dieworkwear Made me think of Chinatown Pretty, which to me has unreasonably good outfits. chinatownpretty.com

A key thing to understand about my account is that I don't share the common disdain for the elderly. On the contrary, I think older men (and women) often dress quite beautifully. Thus, saying something is associated with older people is not a negative for me.

We’ve raised $100M at a $1.5B valuation. We built Render to give developers an intuitive path to reliable and scalable cloud infrastructure. Now, we are bringing that same philosophy to long-running, stateful infrastructure for AI apps & agents. 🧵

The era of the "generic cloud wrapper" is over. To survive the next decade, a cloud provider needs deep, structural differentiation, not just better UI/DX. In 2026, @render isn't just competing with hyperscalers. We are building something they can't copy. Watch this space 🚀

The official Render MCP server is here! Safely connect @claudeai, @cursor_ai, and your favorite AI tools to Render for easier debugging. Here’s how we’re using it. First up, analyze traffic and scaling trends for your services:

Many developers still treat AWS as the only way to build production-ready infrastructure. @maorshlomo proved otherwise. With @render, Maor built the kind of cloud stack that used to require a whole engineering team, and @base44 landed an $80M acquisition. Base44 is a chat-to-code platform from a solo founder. Render lets Maor ship faster, automate more, and spin up enterprise-grade infrastructure without a backend or DevOps crew. CI/CD, infra-as-code, preview environments, private networking, autoscaling; all ready out of the box. What once took weeks now takes minutes. Here’s what Maor told @lennysan on Lenny’s Podcast when asked about his stack: “Render, oh my God. Honestly, they’re not paying me anything. I wish I’d invested. This was so much fun to work with and still is. In my previous company, we had large DevOps teams just to push to prod. [On Render] it’s easy to manage a bunch of processes, and easy to start and scale up web apps.” So why do people still assume only AWS can handle real production loads? History. Heroku was perfect for getting started. However, as the industry moved forward, it failed to build what serious teams need: private networking, CDN-backed static sites, custom CPU and memory plans, persistent disks, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3, DDoS protection, and more. Heroku stagnated, and the myth stuck that platforms always hit a capability ceiling. Render smashes that ceiling. We’ve invested in core infrastructure and capabilities that give small teams the leverage once reserved for large platform orgs. Customers don’t have to rebuild half their stack or live without critical features as their apps scale. Even today, some developers start with Render, assuming they’ll move to AWS later. They always stay because Render gives them infra superpowers that help them continue to scale. The proof is here: solo founders like Maor ship production-grade AI apps with tooling once reserved for large DevOps teams. Stories like Base44’s are a signal: it’s time to rethink what’s possible when your cloud platform can handle all the heavy lifting. PS: Huge thanks to Maor for the kind words and congrats on the Base44 acquisition: what you built solo is inspiring. These are the stories that remind me why I started Render.

I'm proud to announce @render's most significant price decrease ever: Bandwidth prices will decrease by 50% on August 1 📉

Before starting @render, I spent a few months learning all I could about healthtech. I saw how difficult it was to move quickly when dealing with outdated, complex infrastructure and compliance red tape. While I didn't stick with healthtech, the experience stuck with me.

proud to be part of this for the past little while

@hdemirev Seems pretty normal. Who the heck sits quietly doing nothing else when they're brushing their teeth??

can’t sit still while brushing my teeth. like I have to walk around the apt and go look out the window

@JustJake @googlecloud Know this feel

Fucking beyond insane "fuck you" from @googlecloud. Literally never seen this before in my life They automatically LOWERED our quota, causing an incident, and then refuse to automatically upgrade it? We've had such a litany of issues I don't know how anybody uses this product

@cyen @mipsytipsy Even in 2023, the incumbents leave a lot to be desired. Congrats!

but, you know what, fuck it - observability wasn't a thing in 2016, everyone told us we were too late to market and the best monitoring products had already been built.

today i'm excited to announce our latest round, a $50m series d, led by @HeadlineVC with participation from existing investors @ScaleVP, @insightpartners, among others: bit.ly/3zAkYwH

Websites hosted on Render served more than 1 Billion visits over the last 30 days! 🤯

Poutine, but with paneer 🤔

had the pleasure of using `recurse` in jq today, so I think it's time for a beer

@e_tatarchenko several times, even

A bit disturbed to find the word "dragon" in a shell script.

Pondering today that my batteries largely are charging other batteries

We're busy at @render since Heroku announced that they're sunsetting their free tier. The New Stack interviewed @anuraggoel about the decision and the impact on developers: thenewstack.io/where-can-hero…

@JenniferMHwang 😢😢

Half my job is filing support tickets and GitHub issues these days 😆

@JenniferMHwang Unequivocally good

Good idea or bad idea? You get a donut every time you get paged.

How can I resist such a beautiful bag of coffee