Developer Voices Building Render: Inside a Modern Cloud Platform (with Anurag Goel)
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Aug 22, 2025 
Anurag Goel, Founder and CEO of Render, discusses the complexities of building a modern cloud platform. He shares insights on managing millions of users and the challenges of scaling services. Delving into technical strategies, he highlights the intricacies of hosting PostgreSQL databases and handling user demands. The impact of AI on platform choice and future debugging innovations is also explored. Anurag emphasizes the significance of user experience and agile team structures in creating infrastructure that truly meets developer needs.
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Postgres Is The Hard Part
- Hosting Postgres turns an MVP into a major engineering project because of backups, HA, and migrations.
- You must design private networking, observability, and operational tooling for millions of users at scale.
Offer Multiple Interfaces
- Expose multiple interfaces: YAML for snapshots, a REST API for programmatic actions, and a CLI for common developer workflows.
- Use each interface where it fits: humans use dashboards, programs use REST, and scripts use the CLI.
YAML Is State, Code Is Behavior
- Treat YAML/JSON as data snapshots that describe desired state, not as a programming language.
- Use code (SDKs) when you need dynamic, programmatic behavior or runtime logic.