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been following engine from afar for a while, super cool to see it on HN. didn't see it had a free plan, will try it out.

Yep! We have two roles open https://railway.com/careers#open-positions - Datacenters and Infra that might be of interest to you. Idk if many of us use LinkedIn so not the best way …

> the dots aren’t connected between a lot of the aspects presented that's on me (author); I tried to cut the content down to a manageable post size that covered some interesting st…

Author here; RAM is so much more expensive than disk though. Two 500G M.2 NVMes for a RootFS in RAID1 are basically max ~$150 which is I think much cheaper than a single 64G DDR5 E…

author here; Claude use here was pure laziness - and personally, I found it quite funny that it worked. We could sample pixels and try and build that detection, but $ Maybe it need…

There's a fork called nautobot that tries to add-in automation. Most things we wanted to do with either meant we had to go writing django plugins and trying to interface with their…

It's a fair question. What Oxide are building is cool, but it's too custom/monolithic for us to risk. We're more likely to look at OCP racks/chassis down the road.

We currently pass on our cloud egress costs to users via the current pricing. We'll be publishing a pricing update soon as part of our migration - and egress [and some other things…

We have a distributor we work with - just because it makes import/export a lot easier. But we get to interface directly with Supermicro for the technical/design stuff, and they're …

the good news on this is that we've got a tonne of deep-dive material on networking and whitebox switches we cut from this post. We'll definitely be talking more about this soon (a…

correct; I think the first version of our tool sprung up in the space of a couple of weekends. It wasn't planned, my colleague Pierre who wrote it just had a lot of fun building it…

We talked to a few, I think they're called MSPs? We weren't super impressed. We decided to YOLO it. There are probably great outfits out there, but it's hard to find them through t…

All valid points - and our ideas for Gen 2 sound directionally similar - but those are at crayon drawing stage. When we started, we didn't have much of an idea about what the rack …

ah that's my bad - I wrote this in Dec, we only published in Jan. Obv. missed updating that. Timeline wise; - we decided to go for it and spend the $$$ in Oct '23 - Convos/planning…

oh yes we want to; I even priced a couple out. Most of the SKUs I found were pretty old, and we couldn't find anything compelling to risk deploying at the scale we wanted. It's on …

Long running hosts at the moment, but we can drain most workloads off a specific host/rack if required and reschedule it pretty fast. We have the advantage of having a custom sched…

we evaluated a lot of commercial and oss offerings before we decided do go build it ourselves - we still have a deploy of netbox somewhere. But our custom tool (Railyard) works so …

> It would be nice to have a lot more detail I'm going to save this for when I'm asked to cut the three paras on power circuit types. Re: standardising layout at the rack level; we…

We didn't find many good up-to-date resources online on the hardware side of things - kinda why we wanted to write about it. The networking aspect was the most mystical - I highly …

We built some internal tooling to help manage the hosts. Once a host is onboarded onto it, it's a few button clicks on an internal dashboard to provision a QEMU VM. We made a custo…