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title: "Wrapping Up Launch Week 01 - Scale"
date: 2023-09-29
number: 0153
url: https://railway.com/changelog/2023-09-29-launch-week-01
---

# Wrapping Up Launch Week 01 - Scale

## Launch Week 01 Has Arrived at Its Destination

Our first ever [Launch Week](https://railway.app/launch-week-01) 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](https://railway.app/launch-week-01).

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](https://blog.railway.app/p/railway-v2) from CEO and Founder Jake
- [Hello, World: We’re Railway](https://blog.railway.app/p/launch-week-01-regions) from Platform Engineer Charith
- [How We Built Regions Without Walled Gardens](https://x.com/Railway/status/1706552471949291763?s=20) also from Charith ([YouTube](https://youtu.be/v_ocy_2P-kI?feature=shared))

## 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](https://www.prisma.io/):

- [The Future of Databases is Services](https://blog.railway.app/p/launch-01-next-gen-databases) from Software Engineer JR
- [Demo with pgvector](https://x.com/Railway/status/1706805011358040074?s=20) also from JR ([YouTube](https://youtu.be/UJEc6EcqXFA?feature=shared))
- [Up and Running with Prisma and Prisma Pulse](https://x.com/Railway/status/1706835403209404432?s=20) from Solutions Architect Melissa ([YouTube](https://youtu.be/PUqfZwXRqhI?feature=shared))
- Templates for [pgvector](https://railway.app/template/3jJFCA), [ClickHouse](https://railway.app/template/clickhouse), [Chroma](https://railway.app/template/tifygm), and [Dragonfly](https://railway.app/template/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?](https://blog.railway.app/p/launch-week-01-horizontal-scaling) from Fullstack Engineer Pierre
- [Introducing Horizontal Scaling](https://x.com/Railway/status/1707192993911033956?s=20) also from Pierre ([YouTube](https://youtu.be/gGmf6rUgN3E?feature=shared))

## 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](https://blog.railway.app/p/launch-week-01-changesets) from Success Engineer Angelo
- [Introducing Changesets](https://x.com/Railway/status/1707511554370134324?s=20) also from Angelo ([YouTube](https://youtu.be/CvjCdCZboEU?feature=shared))

## 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](https://doppler.com/), and (one more thing) Scale to Zero!

- [Our New Observability Platform for 100B Logs](https://blog.railway.app/p/launch-week-01-observability) from Software Developer Greg
- [Introducing New Observability Features](https://x.com/Railway/status/1707884518894686477?s=20) also from Greg ([YouTube](https://youtu.be/aQFslftexRQ?feature=shared))
- [Building an App with the Railway Public API](https://x.com/Railway/status/1707901420882829333?s=20) from Fullstack Engineer Faraz ([YouTube](https://youtu.be/RrlbrDfc0YM?feature=shared))
- [Secrets Rotation with Doppler](https://x.com/Railway/status/1707912883345191067?s=20) from Solutions Architect Melissa ([YouTube](https://youtu.be/Mavb2HaXHD8?feature=shared))
- [Do Apps Dream of Electric Sheep?](https://blog.railway.app/p/launch-week-01-scale-to-zero) 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](https://railway.app/launch-week-01) page, and find us on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/Railway) or [Discord](https://discord.com/channels/713503345364697088/1157418067861721118) to tell us what you thought and [what you think we should build next](https://feedback.railway.app/). 

Thanks for riding,

🚄 The Railway Team