Building an in-house multi-cloud status page with Rust and TanStack at Railway
By
Noah Dunnagan
Pulled from the oven just right. Trustworthy, fact-dense, deeply satisfying.
Summary
Noah, a developer at Railway, explains why and how they built their own status page in-house using Rust and TanStack, hosted on Railway itself, rather than using third-party alternatives. The article details the technical challenges of creating a reliable, always-up status page that honestly communicates service incidents to customers, and discusses the multi-cloud architecture decisions behind it.
Key quotes
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None of the alternatives could do what we wanted, so we built our own with Rust and TanStack.
Everyone is a cockroach now
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