What’s happening folks? It’s the Changelog Delivery Service here to bring you some exciting new updates from your favorite app development platform.

This week we’re diving back into variables to bring some upgrades to Railway Provided Variables. We’re also shipping Log Explorer, which launched to Priority Boarding last week. 

We also wanted to let you know that we’re still looking to add a few new teammates by the end of the quarter.

Finally, we did a really fun collaboration with Prisma this week and, well, rather than tell you about that here, we suggest you go check out the 

 the ability to reference variables across services. We 

 that this was a forward step in the direction of reconstituting plugins as a set of useful primitives rather than something proprietary to Railway.

This week we’ve taken another step forward and unlocked the ability to reference Railway provided variables (RPVs) across services. This allows you to alias the public or private domain of a service 

We’ve also updated RPVs to make them clearer and more consistent. The most important change is in the variable definitions for a services network:

 now contains the service or custom domain of a service

 now contains the private DNS name of a service

As an example, if you wanted to talk with a service over a private network, instead of hardcoding the domain in your app, you can now create the variable 

API_SERVER=${{ service.RAILWAY_PRIVATE_DOMAIN }}

 which will resolve to the actual DNS name when deployed. 

 for a full list of RPVs and their descriptions. 

Note: Legacy RPVs still exist, but will be deprecated moving forward.

We’ve also improved variable references in templates. Just use the name of a service or plugin to reference any of its variables, like so:

You can now use the name of a Plugin or Service as part of a variable reference across services

The template creation form doesn’t have autocomplete just yet, but we are planning on updating that soon.

. This week we’re making it generally available, with a couple major new features!

Table view with resizable/toggle-able columns

 generally available but is intentionally an early release, so be sure to jump on 

 and let us know how it’s working for you.

Our team has recently grown to 17 and we’re still filling roles as fast as we can! This week we are welcoming Melissa (our first Solutions Engineer) and Valerie, a Product Designer joining Jitachi.

Do you have an interest in bringing human friendly design to internet infra? Would you like to join us?

Here are a few of the roles we’d love to fill before the end of the quarter: 

If you want to read about what it’s like to work at Railway, check out 

And be sure to check out the full range of open positions 

We fixed a bug that sometimes caused deleted services to be visible in public projects

Fixed a UI bug related to using the bulk variable editor breaking forked environment changesets.

https://res.cloudinary.com/railway/image/upload/v1692929386/RPVs_hjkvjo.png

Railway Provided Variables Updates, GA Log Explorer, Railway is Growing

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