Devpost is the home for hackathons, and the company who hosted World’s Largest Hackathon presented by bolt.new in 2025. The Devpost team hired Evil Martians to migrate their infrastructure from EngineYard to Railway.
Infrastructure and security
Devpost’s legacy platform ran on EngineYard and needed a modern, maintainable hosting solution. Evil Martians are migrating the full stack, including MySQL, Redis, and Solr, to Railway. The work covers Docker containerization, asset pipeline optimization, and deployment health checks. Evil Martians also migrated AWS WAF rules to Cloudflare, carefully mapping rate-limiting and IP-blocking rules across platforms.
Performance analysis
Evil Martians conducted load testing with Grafana k6 to measure performance differences across environments and collaborated with Railway’s team to investigate and optimize application response time. The team set up log forwarding pipelines, streamlined CircleCI configuration using shared contexts, and delivered a comprehensive set of operational runbooks covering database rollbacks, IP blocking, and more.
