Deploy and Host railq on Railway

railq is a simple, SQS-like in-memory queuing system designed for modern cloud-native applications. It provides a RESTful API for message queuing, visibility timeouts, and message lifecycle management, making it easy to integrate reliable background processing and decoupled communication into your Railway projects.

About Hosting railq

Hosting railq on Railway allows you to quickly spin up a robust, lightweight queuing service without managing infrastructure. With a single deploy, you get a fully managed, horizontally scalable queue that supports message retention, visibility timeouts, and easy integration with your microservices or serverless functions. Configuration is handled via environment variables, and the service is ready to use out-of-the-box for development, prototyping, or lightweight production workloads.

Common Use Cases

• Decoupling microservices with asynchronous message passing
• Implementing background job processing or task queues
• Buffering and rate-limiting event streams or webhook payloads

Dependencies for railq Hosting

• Go 1.20+ (for local development or custom builds)
• Railway account for deployment

Deployment Dependencies

• Railway CLI
• Go installation (for local development)

Implementation Details (Optional)

You can configure message retention using human-friendly duration strings (e.g., 3d, 2h, 1y) via the QUEUE_RETENTION_PERIOD environment variable.

Why Deploy railq on Railway?

Railway is a singular platform to deploy your infrastructure stack. Railway will host your infrastructure so you don't have to deal with configuration, while allowing you to vertically and horizontally scale it.

By deploying railq on Railway, you are one step closer to supporting a complete full-stack application with minimal burden. Host your servers, databases, AI agents, and more on Railway.