Discussion with Jake Cooper, CEO of Railway, about how they help developers work with cloud infrastructure more easily.

Links:
dev.new/
railway.app/

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Timestamps:
00:00 - Introduction
01:11 - What is Railway?
02:52 - Comparison with other Platform as a Service providers
04:09 - Developer lifecycle for cloud infrastructure
05:43 - Origin Story
09:02 - Solving your own problems + dogfooding
09:42 - Surprising use cases
12:03 - Core customers
13:15 - Building for developers + technical audience
15:37 - Technology behind Railway
18:30 - What happens when a customer deploys something on Railway
19:49 - Where is it being deployed?
21:36 - Multi-tenancy + orchestration
23:24 - Why build a custom orchestrator instead of using something like Kubenetes
27:15 - Dockerfile vs buildpacks
29:07 - Uptime expectations, operating a platform with high reliability
32:10 - Iterative optimization to enable scaling
33:20 - Team structure
35:26 - How the team works
41:20 - Engineering requirement docs
44:54 - Advice for others building infrastructure teams
46:48 - Closing remarks

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