Jake
@JustJake
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Founder @Railway, the fastest way to ship software. People, Product, Production.
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Joined June 2012
When you become an engineer in Canada, you take an oath To never cause harm/suffering/etc to humans as a result of your work This applies equally, if not more, to business Both can be used for good (to remove suffering) or evil (to add it) Do good work. Don't be evil
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The only FAANG that seems to be worth working hard at is Meta My very smart friends who haul ass there are rewarded insanely well YMMV
feel like FAANG gigs today have barbell distribution you'll have a friend that works at a faang who is there grinding all night burning the midnight oil and you'll have another friend at the SAME EXACT faang who goes in at 10am for free bfast and logs off at 4pm to go to yoga
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> frictionless Yup. Thatâs exactly what weâre after If itâs not you in the flow, itâs gotta go!
Back deploying a new project on @Railway after a few months of wrestling the Azure stack. I'm enjoying infra again. It's just so frictionless.
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All systems move towards human in the loop Augments, a mecha suit of armor for the mind This is the way
New: Salesforce execs say large language models canât be trusted for full automation. So theyâre developing an alternative hybrid system with if-then deterministic features
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I believe every fortunate person will tell you this, but let me be the first: Every investment you will ever make, no matter how successful, will pale in comparison to the partners you keep Your life partner, your business partners, etc
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Yesterday, for a couple hours, an issue occurred causing delays for <10% of users and dropped connections for <1% Any amount of customer impact is for us unacceptable We've published a retro + post mortem and put resolutions in place We take this all very, very seriously
We published an incident report for December 16, 2025: https://t.co/74wTX99BFF We're sorry for the impact this caused. We're actively working to eliminate the class of issues that contributed to this incident and to make the platform more resilient.
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We have, once again, forgotten the merit of the dollar Revenue quality matters as much, if not more, than the revenue itself
Full essay here: https://t.co/D892Xh0LGo Thanks to @TheEthanDing, @JustJake, @mvernal and a few [redacted] unicorn founders for their thoughtful edits. I rarely ask this but if you have a friend evaluating a startup offer - I highly recommend you share this with them!
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Everybody talks about Tesla, but this Edison quote lives rent free in my head
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It very well might be easier to solve space cooling/energy problems than terrestrial/political problems Plan accordingly
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Just so weâre clear, we like the Cloudflare folks I just think the consumer is going to get much, much better tools if you get great players pushing each other And where weâre going, we *need* those tools For me, you cannot put a price on that. This must exist.
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And yet, wouldnât it be so much better if 3-5 companies absolutely went to the mattresses in 2026? Just an all out war on âWho can build the best way to build and deploy softwareâ? Thatâs our plan for 2026. Looking forward to next year :)
Cloudflare to acquire Railway in 2026
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Infra is fun because itâs tough to spot, you blink, and then itâs tough to beat
FWIW this is why - snowflake struggled to raise their series C - every tier1 passed on datadog seed/A/B - cloudflare could only raise from no-name VCs - wall street didn't understand AWS [until the numbers spoke for themselves]
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Tough choice for "Where does my 2025 income tax go?"
Before asking taxpayers for another dollar, maybe start by defunding the homeless beer-concierge services, trimming the 17 layers of middle management, and shutting down the feel-good programs no one audits.
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Today weâre rolling out ârailway devâ Automatically spin up Railway projects locally, so you can move quickly, wherever you are We will handle the containers, local certs, etc railway dev -> railway.localhost
Who did what, where and when? đ Changelog #0268 ⢠Audit Logs ⢠`railway dev` ⢠Canvas Updates ⢠Cleaner GitHub PRs ⢠Fixes and Improvements https://t.co/cXyhmjkuL6
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My partner got me a "Claude Advent Calendar" (aka Claude picks 25 small gifts) Hilariously, Claude only know the abstract concept of "Gifts", so he keeps repeating day So far I've received: - 3x Tea bags - 2x Japanese KitKats - 2x Hot sauces - 2x Glass ducks - 3x Random Candies
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Itâs so much easier to pull something back than it is to pull something forward (I do think there is massive friction in having two separate tools, but design and engineering *are* two distinct flavors)
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