Launch Week 01 Has Arrived at Its Destination
Our first ever Launch Week was a great success!
If you haven’t had a look yet, be sure to check out the final version of our Launch Week 01 landing page.
Let’s get into what we shipped this week!
Day 01 - Regions
On Monday, we released Regions, lighting up three new availability zones around the world for the very first time:
- Introducing Railway V2 from CEO and Founder Jake
- Hello, World: We’re Railway from Platform Engineer Charith
- How We Built Regions Without Walled Gardens also from Charith (YouTube)
Day 02 - Next-Gen Databases
On Tuesday, we released Next-Gen Databases, opening up Railway to run ANY kind of database in addition to the four that we already supported (Postgres, Mongo, Redis, and MySQL). We also recorded a session with our friends at Prisma:
- The Future of Databases is Services from Software Engineer JR
- Demo with pgvector also from JR (YouTube)
- Up and Running with Prisma and Prisma Pulse from Solutions Architect Melissa (YouTube)
- Templates for pgvector, ClickHouse, Chroma, and Dragonfly
Day 03 - Horizontal Scaling
On Wednesday, we announced Horizontal Scaling to up to 50 replicas per project. This is a huge win for production users we can’t wait to see how you scale:
- So You Think You Can Scale? from Fullstack Engineer Pierre
- Introducing Horizontal Scaling also from Pierre (YouTube)
Day 04 - Changesets
On Thursday, we announced Changesets, a new way to version infrastructure just like application code directly from within Railway:
- How We're Building Git for Infrastructure from Success Engineer Angelo
- Introducing Changesets also from Angelo (YouTube)
Day 05 - Workflows (And One More Thing)
Finally, today we announced a new set of Observability features, a generally available Public API, a Secrets Management/Rotation integration with our friends at Doppler, and (one more thing) Scale to Zero!
- Our New Observability Platform for 100B Logs from Software Developer Greg
- Introducing New Observability Features also from Greg (YouTube)
- Building an App with the Railway Public API from Fullstack Engineer Faraz (YouTube)
- Secrets Rotation with Doppler from Solutions Architect Melissa (YouTube)
- Do Apps Dream of Electric Sheep? from Platform Engineer Miguel
It was a huge week and we’re thankful for your support.
Once again, please be sure to check out the Launch Week page, and find us on Twitter or Discord to tell us what you thought and what you think we should build next.
Thanks for riding,
🚄 The Railway Team