Miren Blog
Updates, insights, and announcements from the Miren team.
Datoms All the Way Down
Why Miren stores its state in an EAV entity system on etcd instead of a relational database.
An admin CLI for your app, without building one
Expose maintenance methods from your app over JSON-RPC and call them from `miren admin` — no bespoke dashboard, no production SSH.
PR Preview Environments
A url for every pull request, powered by ephemeral deploys and wired into GitHub Actions.
Route Protection
Auth and WAF that sit between ingress and your app, declared the same way you'd declare anything else on Miren.
Inside the Loop
A look at how we actually plan, design, build, and review software at Miren.
A Gopher Meets a Crab
Notes on fitting Rust in a gopher brain by building a chat server with Tokio.
Introducing Addons
Declare what your app needs and let Miren handle the rest.
Agile in the Age of AI
The principles haven't changed. The participants have.
Everybody Could Use a Garden Server
Announcing free run.garden and miren.app subdomains for Miren Cloud users, and the case for giving your small software a home.
Deploy from CI Like You Deploy from Your Laptop
Secretless CI/CD deploys: one command to set up, one action to run.
Surfboard Makers
Our perspective on building software with AI.
idk, try it
When trying things is free, something clicks. A story about rediscovering the joy of just shipping code.
Miren Developer Preview Now Available
After working on it for most of 2025, we're opening up our self-hosted deployment platform with cloud console and safe data built in from the start.
The Start of Something Special
Announcing Miren—rethinking how software is developed, deployed, and managed—with $3M in seed funding from BlueYard Capital and Union Square Ventures.