Railway's Journey: Building a Data Center from Scratch

Constrained by hyperscaler limitations, Railway embarked on Project Metal, building its own data center in just nine months. The blog post details the entire process, from site selection, power and network infrastructure, to server installation, highlighting challenges and solutions encountered along the way. This included power and network redundancy, rack layout, cable management, and more. The result? A software-defined network and internal tools automating the entire data center build process, from design to deployment.