--- title: Railway Launch Week 01 - Scale description: Five feature-packed days from September 25–29, 2023 bringing new ways to scale Railway applications globally. url: https://railway.com/launch-week-01 --- # Railway Launch Week 01 - Scale Five days of ships from September 25–29, 2023, focused on giving teams new ways to scale their applications and bring them closer to users around the world. ## What launched - **Regions** — Deploy services to multiple regions around the world without walled gardens. - **Databases as services** — A new generation of first-class managed databases (Postgres, with vector support and Prisma session integration). - **Horizontal scaling** — Add replicas to a service to scale beyond a single instance. - **Changesets** — Git-style staging for infrastructure changes before they go live. - **Observability** — A new platform built to handle 100B+ logs with fast search and metrics. - **App Sleeping** — Let idle apps sleep automatically and wake on request. ## Blog posts from the week - Welcome to Railway Launch Week 01 - How We Built Regions Without Walled Gardens - The Future of Databases is Services - So You Think You Can Scale? (Horizontal Scaling) - How We're Building Git for Infrastructure (Changesets) - Our New Observability Platform for 100B Logs - Do Apps Dream of Electric Sheep? (App Sleeping) - Building an App with the Railway Public API - That's All Folks! ## Related - Engineering blog: https://blog.railway.com - Launch Week 02: https://railway.com/launch-week-02 - Docs: https://docs.railway.com --- Open this page in a browser: https://railway.com/launch-week-01 [https://railway.com/launch-week-01](https://railway.com/launch-week-01)