Railway Goes to the Land of Tacos and Lucha Libre

Railway x Mexico City

¡Buenos Dias! This week, the fully remote and global team at Railway converged on Mexico City for our biannual retreat — a week dedicated to planning, in-person collaboration, brainstorming the future, and of course, having an absolute blast together. Between the strategic planning sessions and whiteboard debates, we also managed to do something completely ridiculous (and admittedly on-brand): We merged a PR on the fly from a hot air balloon ↓

Merging a PR from a hot air balloon 8,000ft (~2,500m) above sea level

This was the result. You can try it out by going to dev.new and typing Balloon

go to dev.new and type “Balloon”

When we weren't shipping from the stratosphere, we leaned into the local culture. The team went to see Lucha Libre at Arena México — Mexican professional wrestling at its finest. High-flying acrobatics, dramatic showdowns, and more mask reveals than you'd expect. It was everything we hoped for and more.

Lucha Libre (don’t try this at home)

And in classic Railway retreat tradition, we wrapped things up by making pasta from scratch as a team. There's something about collectively kneading dough and rolling out noodles that brings people together — especially when you're all figuring it out as you go.

The Railway team making pasta from scratch

We’re hiring

Want to build the next-generation cloud platform, tackle hard problems, and work with a team that merges PRs from balloons? We're hiring for the following roles:

If any of these sound like a fit for you, drop us a line. We’d love to hear from you.

As always, thanks for being part of the journey.

Q3 Ships

While we were planning the future, let's not forget everything we shipped this past quarter. Here's the full rundown:

Thanks for being on the ride with us 🚄. See you next week!

Changelog #0259

Railway x Mexico City

We’re hiring

Q3 Ships