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Post-Mortem: November 22nd–23rd, 2024 🛠️

So — downtime.

The bad news: Login and registration on Runway experienced downtime. The good news: Your applications kept running.

Let’s break down what happened and what we learned.

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Posted by: Till Klampaeckel
25 November 2024

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An Evening Of Hackery

This is a personal piece.

Recently, I’ve noticed a rise in people using Bluesky. For me, it’s been active enough to warrant checking in more than a few times a month — to discover interesting conversations and explore what’s happening.

One thing I miss from Twitter is the variety of bot accounts I used to follow. Many of them reposted feeds or curated content, making it much easier to stay informed (especially since I’m notoriously bad at keeping up with RSS feeds). Long story short, Bluesky has an API, and they explicitly encourage bot accounts. So, I figured — why not hack something together?

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October 2024 - Updates

Here’s a look at what we worked on for Runway in October 2024:

  • S3 Storage: created an internal service for provisioning S3 accounts in our backend
  • App Processes and Status: runway app ps
  • The Runway Buildpack Stack
  • Multiplayer v1.1
  • Expanded Logs: runway app logs
  • Runway CLI Updates
  • Progress on DBaaS

Let’s dive into each update and see what it brings to the table!

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September 2024 - Updates

In the spirit of “better late than never,” here is what we have been busy with in September 2024.

We upgraded our build pipeline (for buildpacks) to use Ubuntu Jammy as a base. For those who can’t keep up with the funny names Linux distributions hand out these days and why this is relevant: Jammy is the current Long Term Support (LTS) version of Ubuntu, which we use to turn your application code into a container.

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New: Docs & Buildpacks

Here’s an intermediate update on what’s new at Runway during the month of September: Last week, we rolled out a major update to our buildpacks toolchain, now using Ubuntu Jammy as the base.

This update doesn’t just bring a refreshed base; it also includes the latest versions of all the buildpacks involved, plus up-to-date versions of key languages like Node.js and PHP.

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August 2024 - Updates

First off — huge thanks to everyone who joined and deployed this month! We had to create a new coupon code to keep registrations rolling. 🚀

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How to containerize

It’s been an exciting week for us with Runway — thank you to everyone who joined, deployed apps and gave us feedback. :) We appreciate you!

As I am updating the documentation, I wanted to elaborate a bit on containerization as I realize that we likely cannot always keep up with all the changes that frameworks and projects make on a daily, weekly or monthly basis.

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Platform as a Service

Welcome! In this blog post we’ll briefly explain what a Platform as a Service is, why we think the current state of the industry is not good enough and needs fixing, and how we’re doing exactly that with Runway, our new offering made by developers for developers.

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July 2024 - Updates

Welcome to the first week of August! Here’s a look at what we’ve been up to:

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June 2024 Update

Here’s what happened in the past weeks:

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May 2024 Update

Hello, hello — a little over due. But here’s what happened in terms of RUNWAY in May.

First off, thanks to Ally Long we made get strides, so let me introduce Astrocat 🐈‍⬛ (see the page’s logo!) and our brand new logo that’s been developing. :-) Over the next couple weeks we’ll roll out the changes to our web UI and landing pages — so stay tuned.

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April 2024 Update

Time flies — and things don’t always go according to the master plan when you’re bootstrapping.

Needless to say: we are on our way thanks to lots of friends and colleagues who gave us their time and provided us with feedback and input thus far. Sometimes also just by listening to us complain.

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