Hello and welcome to a special “Limited Edition” Changelog, #0151. Please step directly into the train car, yes, thank you. Be sure to keep your arms and legs inside at all times and refrain from flash photography for the duration of our journey.

Our first stop this afternoon is a special one just for the Priority Boarding users that are with us today. It’s a wonderful bit of design and engineering and we hope you’ll like it very much. 

Let’s slow down for a second so we can get a good look…

We can see you thinking, “This looks familiar!”

That’s because “Usage Limits” or “Consumption Limits” or “Budgets” (we haven’t quite picked out the best name yet) is one of the most requested features on the 

We’ve heard loud and clear that you’d like ways to control your costs, limit your liabilities, and protect your peace of mind. That’s why we’re building an ambitious set of tools to let you impose “hard” and “soft” limits on your Railway workloads. 

First up is Usage Limits, a feature that lets you define a dollar amount threshold for receiving a notification, and another dollar amount threshold for automatically pausing your workloads.

This feature is available today for Priority Boarding users on usage-based subscriptions.

Plugins are giving way to “official database templates”

Over the past few months, we’ve been working hard to enable ANY type of database on Railway.

 … features that work great on their own, but when combined together … well, let’s talk about that. 

We’re now introducing “Official” database templates for the four types of databases that have up-until-now been known as 

These templates, which use the latest and greatest features in Volumes, Private Networking, and more, are available here:

The larger story is that these templates (and more like them) will soon replace plugins on Railway. Please test them and 

 if you find any issues. The goal is full backwards and forwards compatibility.

We’ve also added support for the plugin UIs in the “Data” tab. If you deploy one of the official templates, you can go to “Data” get a quick insight into what is stored in the database. These are straight ports of the current plugin UIs, but we have big plans to overhaul them in the upcoming quarters.

Railway’s first ever Launch Week is scheduled for September 25 - September 29, 2023!

We couldn’t be more excited to share with you some huge developments from Railway and the engineers who made them all possible. 

We’re kicking it all off with a special 

Be sure to register and we’ll see you there!

We made minor improvements to logs formatting

We fixed an edge case with service variable references and Railway provided variables (RPVs)

We added a very (very) experimental “ghost configuration mode” when deploying templates to existing projects

https://res.cloudinary.com/railway/image/upload/v1694823836/usage-limits_hiqds1.png

Usage Limits, DB Templates, Launch Week Announcement

Changelog #0151