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Notes from building a deployment platform.
Mechanics we had to get right, decisions we had to defend, and migrations we have run more than once.
Moving a Rails app off Heroku without rewriting it
A practical migration path from a managed platform to servers you own: buildpacks first, then a Dockerfile, addons, the release phase, and what actually breaks.
What Canadian data residency actually requires
Choosing a Canadian region is the easy part. Here is what residency means technically, what it does not mean legally, and how to set it up properly.
Why a deploy waits for five clean probes
A single passing health check can land while the proxy is still converging. Here's why Railyard requires a streak before it moves traffic, and what that prevents.
Your next deploy could be on a server you own.
Attach a machine with a host, a user and an SSH key. Railyard installs the rest and watches it come online.
Free for one server, forever. No credit card.