As usual, the pendulum keeps swinging between “it’s so over” and “we’re so back.”

Who knew giving unlimited AI access for $200/month wasn’t a solid business model?

Speaking of agents, we’re in the process of building an official Railway MCP server™ to help you automate workflows around deploying your apps on Railway with AI. We’d love to hear what workflows and features you'd like to see. You can drop your ideas 

Meanwhile, designers' favorite tool for crafting beautiful interfaces (some of which never see the light of day) 

Luckily, that’s not how our engineers roll, they actually like our designers. So if you're a designer (or know a great one), 

With that out of the way, here’s everything we shipped this week. Let’s get into it!

Security audits aren’t glamorous, but they’re necessary — and we just passed a big one.

, which means our systems, processes, and controls meet a high, generally accepted security posture bar. 

You can find SOC2 Type II, SOC3 and HIPAA attestation reports on Railway’s 

. Compliance isn’t the finish line, but it’s a solid checkpoint along the way.

If you’re working with a larger workload or have specific requirements, you can 

 to explore how we can best support your project.

 are services that run a single file of TypeScript code using the 

 runtime. There’s no build step, and you can deploy code changes in

Check out the documentation to learn more

 command which allows you to create, list, pull, push, delete and link functions. Shout-out to

! Here’s the list of available subcommands:

 - creates a new function. This command can watch for changes to the local file and automatically redeploy.

 - lists all functions for a linked project

 - pulls the latest version of a deployed function

 - pushes changes to a function and deploys it. This command can watch for changes to the local file and automatically redeploy.

 - you can link a function from a path to a service ID. When you switch environments, all Railway function commands will target the function in that environment.

You'll find these commands extremely handy if you’ve been using Functions and want to edit the code in your IDE instead of the Railway Dashboard.

One week to go before the Railway Hackathon starts

In case you missed it, last week we announced the first ever 

 we’re handing out up to $1,000 in cash prizes to the winners. 

The hackathon officially kicks off next week on August 6th So prepare your ideas and 

check out all of the details on the hackathon page

We improved the README editing experience for previously published templates by removing the structure requirements

 command, allowing environment variable updates without triggering redeploys. This is useful for CI/CD workflows


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SOC 2 Type II, Railway Functions in the CLI, Railway Hackathon Countdown

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