Welcome to this week’s Railway Changelog!

Before we dive in, do you know you can now execute serverless functions on Railway? That’s the big news today!

But before we get to that, we wanted to let our European friends know that we’ve been hard at work fine-tuning and test-running the new Amsterdam Metal region, getting it ready for prime time.

Now, let’s jump in and see what we shipped this week! 🚂✨

                                             Railway Functions in Action on Railway

I (the writer) am stoked about this delightful feature and I am sure you will be too! 

. No need to attach a GitHub repo or deploy from your local machine. 

Railway Functions makes it easy to quickly ideate and handle simple tasks such as fetching APIs, running webhooks and even scheduling cron jobs. Plus, it supports data persistence with volumes!

Railway Functions opens up a whole new world of running compute on Railway. You check out a block of code and want a shareable deployed link quickly? 

You want your nifty code samples to be side-by-side with your other services? 

Oh, writing code in the editor gets your changes to show up almost instantly. The possibilities are endless!

 from the dropdown. A new function service will show up. Pressing Command-S will save and run your code. Write your code in the 

We’re excited to expand Railway functions to support even more use cases in the future.

                                            Creating a new environment via the CLI

The Railway CLI has received a major update. As we’ve 

 our ultimate goal is to enable you to do 

 from the terminal that you can do on the dashboard. 

You can now manage environments in your Railway projects directly from the CLI.  

Here are a few examples of what you can do

That’s not all. A major benefit is that you can now inject variables into PR environments through GitHub Actions. For instance, using branched URLs from database vendors like PlanetScale, etc. We documented how to automate your workflow using 

 and take advantage of these new feature. For more details, check out the 

A few months ago, we published new guides for multiple 

. Now, we are leveling-up our educational content with Youtube Shorts and videos to help you master deploying and scaling on Railway. 

AI-powered Answer Generation in Help Station

                             Generating an answer for a question thread in Help Station

 improvement feature for our behind-the-scenes Support Engineers answering questions on Help Station that allows them to generate answers to your questions on 

Station uses AI to understand the thread's context, find relevant docs and potential solutions, and present them to you. We’ve been using summarizations for sometime now to help with context.

Why are we showing you an admin feature? 

Engineer Nico (who has great hair) - has been painstakingly cleaning data to generate a question/answer corpus combined with 4o-mini to quickly generate 

to common Railway questions. This will help us for an upcoming feature somewhere else on the platform. 

No action is needed on your part, expect faster replies from the Railway team. BrodyAI is here.

We fixed a small navigation bug in the mobile interface.

We improved the performance of the service usage breakdown page.

Upgraded our metrics service, it should be faster to see metrics. 

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Railway Functions,  CLI Updates, AI-powered Answer Generation in Help Station, Video Guides

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