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  1. #4 · RailwayDown 5 min

    For five minutes, every domain on Railway said it didn't exist

    WTF: For five minutes, Railway's proxies told the whole internet that its domains didn't exist. The routing service had only said "I can't answer right now". And the parallel pipelines came from a change made for resilience: routing moved out of the monolith so it keeps working during a major cloud outage, and the monolith's single pipeline was what kept the schema first.

    Full postmortem · Outage on 30 Sep 2026

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