Context: This is Railway the PaaS company, not your daily commute vehicle (which is good in general, still bad for many users, like me).
A global train outage would be quite a spectacle, is that even possible?
Railway (PaaS) global outage
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#42That's a big yikes just after promoting themselves in the Jmail thread yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46966562 Of course every service will have outages, it's just funny to see it so soon after saying: > We're nuts for studying failure at the company [...] (albeit a different 'failure' context)
IDK, it looks like servers were up, connectivity worked well, and some builds were failing. Wouldn't call that a big issue, and the same thing was happening with Vercel due to their git clones etc. yesterday too.
IOW, doesnt look as bad as the title suggests?
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#44Joke about train line aside, I think Railway fits right in the spot that Heroku left. They have a nice UI, support deploy any kind of backend-involved apps as long as it can be built into a docker container. While many PaaS out there seems to prioritize frontend only apps. And they have a free plan, so people can just quickly deploy some POC before decide if it's good to move on. Anyone know if there is any other Paa…
Been building an open source version of railway at https://canine.sh . Offers all the same features without the potential of a vendor lock-in / price gouging.
The docs seem to be non existent. Is the canine yaml documented?
You want docs like this:
https://coolify.io/docs/applications/ci-cd/github/setup-app
https://coolify.io/docs/applications/build-packs/dockerfile
https://coolify.io/docs/applications/build-packs/overview
Plenty of screenshots and exact step by step instructions. Throwing an "example git repo" with no documentation won't get you any users.
Put your shoes into that of a Heroku/Vercel user. DevOps is usually Somebody Else's Problem. They are not going to spend hours debugging kubernetes so if you want to sell them a PaaS built on Kubernetes, it has to be fool proof. Coolify is an excellent example, the underlying engineering is average at best (from a pure engineering point of view it's a very heavy app that suffers from frequent memory leaks, they have a new v5 rewrite but it's been stuck for 2 years) but the UI/UX has been polished very well.
Re: Railway (PaaS) global outage
#45Joke about train line aside, I think Railway fits right in the spot that Heroku left. They have a nice UI, support deploy any kind of backend-involved apps as long as it can be built into a docker container. While many PaaS out there seems to prioritize frontend only apps. And they have a free plan, so people can just quickly deploy some POC before decide if it's good to move on. Anyone know if there is any other Paa…
Been building an open source version of railway at https://canine.sh . Offers all the same features without the potential of a vendor lock-in / price gouging.
> Computing is getting cheaper
Heh.
Looks like a great product, although maybe mention some honest reasons to not use it, instead of the passive-aggressive marketing ones.
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#46This is great, not 10 minutes before this outage did I present Railway as a viable option for some small-scale hosting for prototypes and non-critical apps as an alternative to the Cloud giants
It always happens that way. I guarantee some people migrated from Heroku to Railway and bragged about future stability to the team, only to experience this.
Yeah 100%
This won't change my decision, but it is still impeccable timing
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#47What is this 'railway'? I am assuming that a domain like railway.com should be about trains. Why does every tech company have to name themselves as a one word .com website and what they do is unrelated and vague to their own name? Does every tech company think they are Apple and have to register every word in the dictionary and redefine it as a technology company? Really bad name for a company.
could be worse could be called "entire" ( https://entire.io/ )
Worse would be x.com.
Re: Railway (PaaS) global outage
#48Hello! Railway founder here We'll have a post mortem for this one as we always write post mortems for anything that affects users Our initial investigation reveals this affects Apologies from myself + the Team. Any amount of downtime is completely unacceptable You may monitor this incident here: https://status.railway.com/cmli5y9xt056zsdts5ngslbmp
Hi Jake. Appreciate your presence here on HN. This affected a seemingly random set of services across three of my accounts (pro and hobby, depending on if this is for work or just myself.) That ranges from Wordpress to static site hosting to a custom Python server. All of the deployments showed as Online, even after receiving a SIGTERM. While 3% is 'good', that's an awfully wide range of things across multiple accoun…
Totally! People who see the impact will likely see more impacted than say, 3% of their services. Not all disruption created equal.
We rolled out a change to update our fraud model, and that uses workload fingerprinting
Since, in all likelyhood, your projects are similarly structured, there will be more impacted workloads if the shape of your workloads was in the "false positive" set
Will have more information soon but very valid (and astute) feelings!
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#50What is this 'railway'? I am assuming that a domain like railway.com should be about trains. Why does every tech company have to name themselves as a one word .com website and what they do is unrelated and vague to their own name? Does every tech company think they are Apple and have to register every word in the dictionary and redefine it as a technology company? Really bad name for a company.
A lot of companies have been doing that for a long time
Lotus
Jaguar
Caterpillar
Shell
its a human thing