My love-hate relationship with Railway for deploying AI projects #coding #developertools #devops

In this video, I share my experience with the Railway PaaS platform after several months of use. While it is affordable and offers smooth deployments, it comes with serious limitations — from incomplete documentation and limited config support to the lack of proper Infrastructure-as-Code tools. 🛠 Platforms Mentioned: Railway - https://railway.app/dashboard ... {ts:25} platforms i've managed to spend just 10 bucks over 3 to four months that's a win so yes Railway earned a spot in my dev {ts:33} toolbox but there are some real limitations that have me seriously considering a move first up the {ts:40} documentation let's call it what it is halfbaked things often just work until they don't and when they don't good luck {ts:49} figuring it out especially with Docker Compose Railway talks about the magic of its integration but gives you no clarity {ts:56} on what the platform is actually doing under the hood you end up guessing what's going on learning through trial {ts:62} and error and hoping things don't break that's a red flag second the configuration setup using railway.json {ts:70} orl files from what I've seen you can only configure one service at a time why i don't remember the last time I {ts:79} deployed a single service app multi-ervice architectures are the norm render handles this seamlessly so why {ts:86} hasn't Railway caught up this limitation makes deploying anything serious way more painful than it needs to be that's {ts:93} red flag number two and finally where's the infrastructure as code support we're in an era of automation yet with Railway {ts:102} you're still clicking through the UI just to replicate configs this isn't a noode platform we need a way to define {ts:109} and reuse environments without repeating the same manual steps the template feature in the UI it's not enough we {ts:117} need proper IA support that's red flag number three so yeah I'm on the fence the only thing keeping me on railway {ts:124} right now is the price mender's $20 a month baseline feels a bit steep for small projects but honestly if Railway {ts:132} doesn't evolve past these pain points soon I might just take the hit and switch what's your experience with {ts:138} Railway or Render drop a comment i'd love to hear your thoughts if you found this helpful or relatable consider