We're Railway V2, an infrastructure company that provides instant application deployments to developers. Our mission was to rethink the build, deploy, and observability stack for the modern web, aiming to make software development better. We started with a simple database deployment in 2021 and scaled to 100k+ users by year's end. However, as we grew, we faced challenges and self-doubt, questioning whether our solutions would scale and if Kubernetes was the solution we needed all along. After a disastrous attempt at building "Railway on Kubernetes," we took a step back, regrouped, and refocused on our core experience. We spent months rebuilding our infrastructure, fixing issues, and shipping new features, culminating in the launch of regions, our most requested feature. Our platform is now rock solid and feature complete, enabling users to ship anything on it with ease.