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Railway Blog
Company blog · blog.railway.comprogrammingstartups
Railway Blog is the company blog at blog.railway.com, writing about programming and startups. Since 2024, 40 different Hacker News readers have linked it 89 times, most often “So you want to build your own data center”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Rarely recommended · 0 of 31 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers mostly link Railway's blog for incident reports, postmortems and status updates, plus posts on its data center build-out and launch weeks. Comments are mainly about outages and infrastructure choices.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 31 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Blog posts from the Railway team
Most-linked posts?
- So you want to build your own data center7 people · 16 mentions · first linked 2025-01-07
- You can't build a cloud on a cloud5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2025-03-03
- Railway GCP Account Suspension Incident Report3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-05-20
- We learned to stop sucking at onboarding3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-02-12
- How we scaled Slack to support 1000s of developers3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-01-23
- Security Disclosure3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-10-21
- /p/heroku-walked-railway-run2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-02-10
- One-Second Deploys? We Didn't Believe It Either2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-03-05
- Railway Incident December 16th, 20252 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-12-17
- Moving Railway's Frontend Off Next.js2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-04-07
What Hacker News says?
Not even that one. One day I got calls from customers saying: "why can I see other people's accounts?". Then saw that Railway had started caching arbitrary responses. Like how do you even do that without trying? IMO Railway's response was evasive, underplayed the incident, and did not reflect the severity of this failure. As a response we pulled all our big projects off Railway. All I want is that my data is reliabl…
Comment linking /p/incident-report-march-30-2026-accidental-cdn-caching
on “Security Disclosure”Submitted Security Disclosure as a story · 603 points
HN discussionNo. They did not. From https://blog.railway.com/p/security-disclosure-wednesday-oct... : > What you should do: As such, we strongly recommend that you immediately roll all environment variables, including any API keys, stored in Railway, as well as any private registry credentials, and review logs for those services for unusual activity. > All deployments are paused while we investigate. Until builds are restored, y…
Comment linking /p/security-disclosure-wednesday-october-21st
on “Security Disclosure”Submitted So you want to build your own data center as a story · 596 points
HN discussion"So you want to build your own data center?" https://blog.railway.com/p/data-center-build-part-one
Comment linking /p/data-center-build-part-one
on “Security Disclosure”Submitted Why We're Moving on from Nix as a story · 275 points
HN discussionRailway | Infra (Platform) eng, Infra eng - Data Centers, Full-stack Engineering (Product), Solutions Engineer, and Developer Relations | REMOTE (International) | https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Railway?utm_source=DayMzWzJ0P Tired of trying to beat kube into shape? Does writing YAML to ship code fill you with utter dread? Dream of a future where deploying software is simple, and you don't need an army of infrastructure eng…
Comment linking /p/data-center-build-part-one
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2025)”Submitted How we scaled Slack to support 1000s of developers as a story · 173 points
HN discussionhttps://blog.railway.com/p/preliminary-report-october-securi...
Comment linking /p/preliminary-report-october-security-incident
on “Northflank Breached”Submitted Why most product planning is bad and what to do about it as a story · 136 points
HN discussionRailway | Infra (Platform) eng, Infra eng - Data Centers, Full-stack Engineering (Product), Solutions Engineer| REMOTE (International) | https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Railway?utm_source=DayMzWzJ0P Tired of trying to beat kube into shape? Does writing YAML to ship code fill you with utter dread? Dream of a future where deploying software is simple, and you don't need an army of infrastructure engineers to build that perfe…
Comment linking /p/data-center-build-part-one
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2025)”Submitted Preliminary Report Oct 21st Security Incident as a story · 36 points
HN discussionRailway | Product Eng (full stack), Developer Relations, Infra (Platform) eng, Infra eng - Data Centers| REMOTE (International) | https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Railway?utm_source=DayMzWzJ0P Tired of trying to beat kube into shape? Does writing YAML to ship code fill you with utter dread? Dream of a future where deploying software is simple, and you don't need an army of infrastructure engineers to build that perfect jank…
Comment linking /p/data-center-build-part-one
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2025)”Submitted Taming Servers for Fun and Profit as a story · 32 points
HN discussionRailway | Infra (Platform) eng, Infra eng - Data Centers, Full-stack Engineering (Product), Solutions Engineer, and Developer Relations | REMOTE (International) | https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Railway?utm_source=DayMzWzJ0P Tired of trying to beat kube into shape? Does writing YAML to ship code fill you with utter dread? Dream of a future where deploying software is simple, and you don't need an army of infrastructure eng…
Comment linking /p/data-center-build-part-one
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2025)”Submitted Why We're Moving on from Nix as a story · 18 points
HN discussionRailway | Product Eng (full stack), Developer Relations, Infra (Platform) eng, Infra eng - Data Centers| REMOTE (International) | https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Railway?utm_source=DayMzWzJ0P Tired of trying to beat kube into shape? Does writing YAML to ship code fill you with utter dread? Dream of a future where deploying software is simple, and you don't need an army of infrastructure engineers to build that perfect jank…
Comment linking /p/data-center-build-part-one
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2025)”Submitted Scale Not Sales: Automating Revenue So Graph Go Up as a story · 16 points
HN discussionRailway | Infra (Platform) eng, Product Eng (full stack), Infra eng - Data Centers| REMOTE (International) | https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Railway?utm_source=DayMzWzJ0P Tired of trying to beat kube into shape? Does writing YAML to ship code fill you with utter dread? Dream of a future where deploying software is simple, and you don't need an army of infrastructure engineers to build that perfect janky bash script™ to mak…
Comment linking /p/data-center-build-part-one
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2025)”Submitted You can't build a cloud on a cloud as a story · 11 points
HN discussionRailway | Infra eng - Storage, Infra (Platform) eng, Product Eng (full stack)| REMOTE (Worldwide) | https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Railway?utm_source=DayMzWzJ0P Tired of trying to beat kube into shape? Does writing YAML to ship code fill you with utter dread? Dream of a future where deploying software is simple, and you don't need an army of infrastructure engineers to build that perfect janky bash script™ to make life ea…
Comment linking /p/data-center-build-part-one
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2025)”Submitted Bring Back the Free Plan as a story · 7 points
HN discussionRailway | Product Eng (full stack), Developer Relations, Infra (Platform) eng, Infra eng - Data Centers| REMOTE (International) | https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Railway?utm_source=DayMzWzJ0P Tired of trying to beat kube into shape? Does writing YAML to ship code fill you with utter dread? Dream of a future where deploying software is simple, and you don't need an army of infrastructure engineers to build that perfect jank…
Comment linking /p/data-center-build-part-one
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2025)”Submitted Show HN: Railway MCP – Stateful, Serverful, Pay-per-Use Infrastructure as a story · 6 points
HN discussionRailway | Infra eng - Storage, Infra (Platform) eng, Product Eng (full stack)| REMOTE (Worldwide) | https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Railway?utm_source=DayMzWzJ0P Tired of trying to beat kube into shape? Does writing YAML to ship code fill you with utter dread? Dream of a future where deploying software is simple, and you don't need an army of infrastructure engineers to build that perfect janky bash script™ to make life ea…
Comment linking /p/data-center-build-part-one
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2025)”Submitted Shipping a Changelog Every Friday for More Than 4 Years as a story · 6 points
HN discussionRailway | Infra eng - Storage, Infra (Platform) eng, Product Eng (full stack)| REMOTE (Worldwide) | https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Railway?utm_source=DayMzWzJ0P Tired of trying to beat kube into shape? Does writing YAML to ship code fill you with utter dread? Dream of a future where deploying software is simple, and you don't need an army of infrastructure engineers to build that perfect janky bash script™ to make life ea…
Comment linking /p/data-center-build-part-one
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2025)”Submitted Slack Overflow: How We Scaled Slack to Support 1000s of Developers as a story · 6 points
HN discussionForgive me! Whenever I write internally or externally, it's usually a super long rambling piece and then we cut it down. The hardest part about writing for me making sure that everyone can have something to take away from it. I'll zoom out- Railway got its first users from a Twitter post from the founder asking people to try the product. The founder then sat in a Discord voice channel during the winter break just an…
Comment linking /p/scale-not-sales
on “How we scaled Slack to support 1000s of developers”Submitted Trust Is Not For Sale as a story · 6 points
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