Fork Around And Find Out

Railway wanted to build a better cloud so they started on Google Cloud and ended up building datacenters. Through the burden of success, they figured out there was a lot of things they had to learn and build themselves if they wanted to offer the best cloud experience they could. Jake tells us how they accomplished the move in 9 months, why the built their own orchestrator, and what they’re working on next.

Check out Railway at https://railway.com/ and their blog at https://blog.railway.com. Specifically read the post discussed in this episode. https://blog.railway.com/p/data-center-build-part-one

Creators and Guests

Host
Autumn Nash
Host
Justin Garrison

What is Fork Around And Find Out?

Fork Around and Find Out is your downtime from uptime. Your break from the pager, and a chance to learn from expert’s successes and failures. We cover state-of-the-art, legacy practices for building, running, and maintaining software and systems.