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by justjake 2y ago
Kinda. It's like if you had everything from an infra stack but didn't need to manage it (Kubernetes for resilience, Argo for rollouts, Terraform for safely evolving infrastructure, DataDog for observability) If you've heard o
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by justjake 2y ago
The requirements end up being pretty specific, based on workloads/power draw/supply chain So, while we could have bought something off the shelf, that would have been suboptimal from a specs perspective. Plus then we'd have t
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by justjake 2y ago
Everything is dual redundancy. We run RAID so if a drive fails it's fine; alerting will page oncall which will trigger remote hands onsite, where we have spares for everything in each datacenter
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by justjake 2y ago
We actually only charge you for what you use. As a result people often see 30%+ savings when moving stuff over from other providers (especially Heroku) https://railway.com/pricing
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by justjake 2y ago
While we've always aimed for great reliability on compute, the dashboard reliability wasn't very good at the start of the year. We ack'd this and then pretty heavily to making it stellar, so if you're still having issues
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by justjake 2y ago
We run on Google Cloud, AWS, and our own hardware now since middle of this year :) https://railway.com/changelog/2024-09-20-railway-metal-beta#...
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by justjake 2y ago
You could think of it like that, except it supports anything But yes, convention over configuration (and we still expose the knobs if you want em)
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Show HN: Railway – A better way to build software. Period(railway.com)
14 points by justjake 2y ago|5 comments
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You might not like working at Railway(blog.railway.app)
5 points by justjake 2y ago|3 comments
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by justjake 2y ago
Founder here. Could you point us to an application where we didn't respond? You can DM me an email on x.com/justjake and I'm happy to check what happened Ian is our recruiter, I checked AshBy, and basically everyone's ge
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by justjake 3y ago
(Blogpost Author). We use Discord to notify. Our monitoring runs directly to PagerDuty for anything we actually need to action on.
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by justjake 3y ago
(Blogpost Author) Yup. We've been thinking about colocation for a while, so we've just been building these up. Basically all that's left is to make our volume storage bulletproof. We'll do that as we're moving state
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by justjake 3y ago
Railway | engineering | Remote | https://railway.app/careers Tired of trying to beat kube into shape? Does writing YAML to ship code fill you with utter dread? Dream of a future where deploying software is simple, and you d
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by justjake 4y ago
Railway | engineering | Remote | https://railway.app/careers Tired of trying to beat kube into shape? Does writing YAML to ship code fill you with utter dread? Dream of a future where deploying software is simple, and you d
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by justjake 4y ago
Railway team member here: So there is one but, if you can't find it, it's as good as there not being one! It's currently located at https://nixpacks.com/docs/guides/configuring-builds#change-w... Is
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by justjake 4y ago
Oh man, that’s not at all what I’m aiming for here (Railway Founder) Could you bump the email in my inbox? Even if you hate my guts and have no interest in the company, I‘d like to know cause I don’t recall this at all :( We do a 30 minute
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by justjake 4y ago
Railway founder here Can you mention what particularly was unstable?
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by justjake 4y ago
I don’t think we are ATM but would absolutely love a PR/suggestion for this! Would love to drop image sizes
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by justjake 4y ago
Shoutout Domen indeed!
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by justjake 4y ago
There's a lot of cool things in here, some we're excited to explore and some that I'm first hearing about right now We could jam back and forth on this but generally we're not dogmatic about the "middle" of the
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by justjake 4y ago
Sorry which distribution exactly? We utilize the python's nixpkgs versioned packages See: https://github.com/railwayapp/nixpacks/blob/f88718efe1156671...
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by justjake 4y ago
The similarity is definitely on purpose. It pulls ideals from both nixpkgs as well as the cloud native buildpacks. Our goal is to make reproducibility more approachable/less cumbersome, and for people to be able to define additional ni
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by justjake 4y ago
It's in the same vein, but our goal is to create a standard for fully reproducible builds Nixpacks can also spit out a plan ( https://nixpacks.com/docs/how-it-works#plan ) which, when run again, will assure that the
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by justjake 4y ago
That's the ideal! We want to make it more trivial to build OCI compliant images without all the knowledge required to understand how Dockerfiles/Container Filesystem/BuildLayers/etc work BuildKit makes this possible and
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by justjake 4y ago
Oh neat. We've been meaning to post this on HN! We're the people behind nixpacks; happy to answer any questions just holler
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by justjake 4y ago
Founder of Railway here: Free Tier Hosted app that got shut down when HN traffic came a knockin' OP might wanna consider putting in a credit card before trying to do HN scale next time
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by justjake 4y ago
Sigh. I swear I emailed everyone who ended up in that state, but it might have gone to spam cause well, we had this issue indeed. We had some pretty massive issues with an email provider. Have since switched to Postmark. Apologies there and
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by justjake 4y ago
I would love to! I can tell you a couple things off the bat: - We have automated backups but they're for our own internal disaster recovery. User backups are something we want to do but haven't put on our roadmap yet - A key thing
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by justjake 4y ago
Oh wow I had no idea thank you!
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by justjake 4y ago
I'm such a HN normie does HN even have a downvote button? I can't find it

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