1 year ago

https://railway.app/’s goal is to make infrastructure simpler for developers, and one step it recently took to achieve that was revamping its CLI (command line interface) from Go to Rust. Banys demoed spinning up a https://thenewstack.io/startup-pgedge-tackles-the-distributed-edge-with-postgres/ database at the click of a button — it took less than 10 seconds to deploy, as promised.

Railway recently attracted attention from the Rust community after announcing in March that it had https://blog.railway.app/p/rust-cli-rewrite “from the ground up” in https://thenewstack.io/using-rust-to-build-a-100-scylladb-shard-aware-application/.

“The CLI parser library we were using in Go (Cobra) defined commands dynamically using functions that were called at init.

He ranked Railway as easy among hosting databases competitors Planet Scale, Supabase, CockroachDB and Atlas as well.