Devs in the trenches are stressed from the mandate to automate everything, but Render thinks it can help

Developers are feeling stressed by the mandate to automate everything, but cloud hosting company Render aims to alleviate that pressure with its platform, as discussed at its Localhost conference in San Francisco.

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