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Most application data is stored in and retrieved from a database hosted somewhere on the cloud. And modern platforms have made it absurdly easy to get started: a couple of button clicks and any modern Platform as a Service (PaaS) or database Software...
Node.js is an immensely popular JavaScript runtime, enabling you to run JavaScript outside a web browser. This is useful for web backends, scripts, or jobs that need to be run on a schedule or in response to an event, or any other JavaScript that nee...
I remember Railway's bold commitment to making infrastructure easy to use back when it came out in 2021. So easy, you can still go to https://railway.com/new and spin up a DB right now. Go ahead... do it....
Twenty minutes is apparently enough time for an agent to build and deploy an online multiplayer first-person shooter. Don't take our word for it. You can play it right now. Bring a friend, there's respawning....
Earlier this month we aired “The peaceful way to ship software,” a commercial we filmed with Martin Starr, otherwise known as Bertram Gilfoyle from the HBO show Silicon Valley....
There's now a safer way for your agent to yeet stuff into production on Railway: Feature flags....
Railway experienced a Major Outage concentrated in one of our US East availability zones on July 2, 2026....
If it can't just fire up a browser and log in as you, how does an agent actually get in and use Railway? We've spent agents week talking about the different ways we've looked at making it easier. Everything from fully revamping setup, the CLI as thei...
If you want to make your agent an expert at operating Railway, all you need to do is run the following command:...
Railway sandboxes now include Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and Pi in their default image. If you haven't enabled them yet, Sandboxes are available through Priority Boarding. It turns out, wild as it may seem, people really like using sandboxes for a...
Moving forward, it's a safe bet to say that agents are going to be responsible for building and operating a large portion of software being developed. Because of this, we believe that Railway needs to feel like the the most friction free place for ag...
Railway has technically ran an “edge” network for over 3 years, although it didn’t really live up to the “edge” name - it ran on our 4 Railway regions across the world, nowhere near 100+ POPs you expect when thinking about edge computing....
The Agent Experience of Railway is being built to make it the easiest place to develop, ship, and debug every part of the software you’re building. Everything from the frontend, to APIs, database services, caches, buckets, and functions. Small hobby ...
We let Claude rack tens of millions worth of compute. We are not sorry....
If you've deployed something on Railway in the last few weeks, there's a non-trivial chance your build, your workload, or your storage is sitting on hardware that didn't exist on our network six months ago....
Hi, I'm Noah. I built the Railway status page. Yeah, I know what you're thinking. It gets better. The whole thing runs on Railway. You might be wondering how we got into this situation....
Every cloud pricing model is a story about how the vendor wants you to behave. If you read the pricing page carefully, and I mean carefully, past the badges and the "starting at" asterisks, you can usually figure out which side of the relationship is...
The phrase "multi-region" is doing a lot of work in 2026. Half the platforms that market it mean their CDN caches your static assets on five continents. That works for a marketing site. It is a different product from deploying your API in Frankfurt a...
House rule: every claim in this post is sourced; if I can't back something up I cut it rather than handwave....
Most engineers learn "PaaS vs IaaS vs SaaS" from a single slide in a 2014 textbook....
BYOC is one of those terms that gets thrown around without a clear definition. The precise version: a managed platform that runs inside your own cloud account, so the workload data never leaves your VPC....
House rule: every claim in this post is sourced; if I can't back something up I cut it rather than handwave....
Search "best managed Kubernetes hosting" and you get fifty listicles that read like they were written by the same intern with the same affiliate spreadsheet. They rank platforms on cluster provisioning speed and the color of the dashboard, then bury ...
There's a moment in every infra postmortem where someone says "wait, where is the image actually stored?" and the room gets quiet. The registry is the part of the deploy pipeline most teams pick once, on day one, and never revisit. Then five years in...
A SOC 2 Type 2 attestation tells you what a vendor was doing for the twelve months ending on a specific date. It does not tell you what they're doing now. If you bought based on the badge, you bought yesterday's vendor, and yesterday's vendor is not ...
Most people search "what is a PaaS" wanting a simple answer. The simple answer: it's the contract Heroku invented in 2007, modernized for 2026....
The phrase "we'll just use AWS direct" has done more damage to engineering team capacity in the last decade than any single technical decision. It is the default-because-default choice, the answer that sounds responsible, the choice almost nobody get...
Every "best deployment platforms" listicle treats backends and frontends like they're the same shape. They aren't. A Next.js marketing site and a Python worker chewing through a Redis queue have almost nothing in common operationally, and the platfor...
Every year a fresh crop of "best serverless platforms" listicles ships, every year they rank the same eight FaaS vendors against each other, and the question that matters (what should I run my app on?) gets buried under feature matrices. The 2026 ans...
Secrets are the boring thing that becomes the most expensive thing the moment they leak. They sit in .env files, get checked into private repos that quietly go public, get pasted into Slack DMs by a contractor who is no longer with the company, and e...
The competing listicles for preview environments are stuck in 2021. Most of them describe Heroku Review Apps as the gold standard and treat everything else as a variation on that theme. Heroku invented the category in 2015, then stopped iterating on ...
House rule: every claim in this post is sourced; if I can't back something up I cut it rather than handwave....
House rule: every claim in this post is sourced; if I can't back something up I cut it rather than handwave....
PaaS is not a synonym for "the cloud." PaaS is a specific contract: I push code, the platform handles the runtime, the database is a managed primitive on the side, and the buildpack or Dockerfile figures out the rest. Heroku invented that contract in...
House rule: every claim in this post is sourced. If I can't back something up, I cut it rather than handwave....
"GitOps" became a search term that means two completely different things, and the listicles you keep landing on do not bother to tell you which one they are answering. That is how teams end up evaluating Argo CD against Vercel, which is roughly the s...
Every "best cloud platform" listicle in 2026 is a stealth list of MCP servers. That is the ranking question now: which platforms can an agent drive end to end, and which ones still require a human to click through a dashboard halfway through a deploy...
Observability used to be a budget line item nobody understood and everybody dreaded. You bought Splunk, watched the bill balloon, then quietly cut retention from 90 days to 30, then to 7, then prayed nothing broke during an audit. The story has impro...
"Cloud hosting" is the broadest of the three terms. It covers everything from a Linode VM you SSH into and configure by hand, through a managed PaaS that runs your container and your Postgres on one bill, all the way to a Cloudflare Worker that exist...
I want to apologize for the SEO title, but the content is real, honest to goodness typed....
The phrase "CI/CD tools" suggests a category of products that exist independently of the platforms they deploy to. In 2026, for most teams reading this, that is no longer the right way to think about it....
The cloud category reorders itself every seven years or so around a new primitive. Containers in 2014. Kubernetes by 2018. Serverless slotted in soon after, depending on how generous you are with the definition. The 2026 primitive is the agent, and m...