3 months ago
I had this doubt because Railway behaves like a serverless service and has cold start problems.
Really curious weather the same behavior is seen when using Redis on Railway and how it performs compared to other managed Redis hosts.
Having this problems is fine in some cases, but it is a big no-no in the case of Redis/Cache Store.
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3 months ago
Hello,
Our platform doesn't behave like a serverless platform by default. Your services run continuously, so there are no cold starts to worry about. Redis on Railway will stay warm and responsive just like you'd expect from any Redis host.
The only exception is if you explicitly enable the App Sleeping feature, which is opt-in and designed for development environments or low-traffic services where you want to save on costs. With that disabled (the default), your Redis instance will always be on and ready to serve requests immediately.
If you have serverless disabled and are still experiencing "cold starts" you should profile your application to determine why it is slow to respond to incoming requests.
Best,
Brody
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