Engineering & Product updates

Behind-the-scenes of building a self-hosted deployment platform.

ProductJan 28, 2026

Introducing Apployd — Self-Hosted Deployments for Everyone

We built Apployd because developers deserve Render-level DX on their own infrastructure. Here's the story.

6 min read
EngineeringJan 22, 2026

How Universal Dockerfiles Eliminated Our Build Matrix

A single Dockerfile that auto-detects Node.js, Python, Go, Rust, and static sites. No configuration needed.

8 min read
EngineeringJan 15, 2026

Zero-Downtime Deploys with Rolling Container Swaps

Deep-dive into our health-check-driven rolling deployment strategy that keeps your services online during every push.

10 min read
EngineeringJan 8, 2026

Resource Pooling: Bin-Packing Containers Like Tetris

Our placement scheduler fills servers efficiently. Learn how we reduced idle capacity by 38%.

7 min read
SecurityDec 30, 2025

Securing Secrets: AES-256-GCM at Rest, Zero-Knowledge in Transit

How Apployd encrypts every environment variable and injects secrets only at container start.

5 min read
SecurityDec 22, 2025

Read-Only Containers and Why They Matter

Immutable filesystems block an entire class of runtime attacks. Here's how we enforce them by default.

4 min read

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