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Sorry, I have a hard time blaming Google for this, when Railway seems to be having increasing trouble keeping the platform stable. Something like this should NO
by eoswald 4mo ago
Sorry, I have a hard time blaming Google for this, when Railway seems to be having increasing trouble keeping the platform stable. Something like this should NOT take down an ENTIRE service. There should be a backup when literally your business is about being the reliable backend. This just seems like poor planning to me.
- cactusplant7374 4mo agoDisaster recovery is pretty expensive, right? Especially for their size.
- ryanisnan 4mo agoI don't quite know what you mean. Do you really expect Railway to use a multi-cloud architecture to host all of their client's projects? I suspect that would lead to a lower availability, all things considered.
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- impulser_ 4mo agoThey literally own their own data centers. That's whats surprising about this. They are lying to their customers when they say they operate their own data center because obviously they don't if everyone's apps are down with GCP blocking their account.
- ryanisnan 4mo agoOh, I see what you mean. Eh, it's possibly the same reason that AWS essentially goes down when us-east-1 goes down.
- brookst 4mo agoIs it not possible that they own their own data center and have an unfortunate Google dependency? Obviously a fiasco but I’m not prepared to call them liars when it could be an honest mistake.
- Terr_ 4mo agoI imagine there's also an important difference between: 1. We depend on X but could gracefully migrate to an alternate in a week if we really needed to. 2. All data is mirrored instantly so that we can do seamless fail-over in case X has its own outage.
- impulser_ 4mo agoThen don't say your not a "Cloud on top of a cloud" provider. They even made fun of cloud providers being down when AWS was down.
- eoswald 4mo agoWell, in the same token, is it smart to base your ENTIRE architecture on a single cloud architecture? Isn't that why some of us build in fallbacks for AWS-hosted services? I mean, their enitre platform, both public and private facing, is running on the same thing. One error, one problem, takes out the entire service.
- irjustin 4mo agoTaking this at face value, this doesn't happen to AWS clients - at least I don't read about it here. AWS may have data centers[0] go[1] down[2], but that's within expected bounds of standard ops. [0] https://hooks.slack.com/services/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 https://hooks.slack.com/services/TJ7HQS7FC/B0B5S7UTBJ4/PUHIC... [1] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/21/what-caused-amazons-aws-outage-and-why-did-so-many-major-apps-go-offline https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/21/what-caused-amazon... [2] https://netflixtechblog.com/lessons-netflix-learned-from-the-aws-outage-deefe5fd0c04?gi=029736f90d47 https://netflixtechblog.com/lessons-netflix-learned-from-the...