After 10+ years serving thousands of applications, we had a choice: keep patching or rebuild for the next decade. We chose to rebuild.
Galaxy Expansion Week brought five days of launches that fundamentally transform how developers deploy and scale their applications. From bare metal infrastructure to blazing-fast builds, from community programs to framework support: here’s everything that happened.
Day 1: Introducing Galaxy Metal
We kicked off Expansion Week by unveiling Galaxy Metal, a complete platform rebuild from the ground up.
This wasn’t a decision we made lightly. Thousands of apps depend on Galaxy every day. But we reached a point where the cost of maintaining the old architecture exceeded the cost of rebuilding for the future.
What’s New
Bare Metal Performance
Galaxy Metal eliminates virtualization overhead entirely. Your applications get direct hardware access, resulting in faster deployments and more consistent performance. Build queues? Gone. Spot instances that can disappear at any moment? Replaced with dedicated, stable hardware.
Zero-Downtime Deployments
Every deployment uses a blue-green strategy. Your users never experience downtime during updates. The new version spins up, health checks pass, traffic switches over. Simple, reliable, seamless.
Cloud-Agnostic Architecture
Galaxy Metal provides unified infrastructure across all cloud providers. Our European infrastructure runs on OVHcloud (a French company under EU jurisdiction) for data sovereignty. Deploy to specific providers for compliance or business requirements. No “enterprise tier” required for multi-cloud flexibility.
Enterprise Features, Standard Pricing
Network policies, role-based access control, and audit logging are built into the platform: not locked behind enterprise paywalls. We’re GDPR compliant with Data Processing Agreements available now. SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certifications are coming in 2026.
Availability
Galaxy Metal is now available for web apps built with Node.js, Python, and AdonisJS. Support for Meteor apps is coming soon.
Watch Fred (CEO) and Henrique (CTO) explain the transformation →
Day 2: Galaxy Metal Under the Hood
On Tuesday, our CTO Henrique Schmaiske pulled back the curtain on how we built Galaxy Metal.
The Technical Architecture
Why Kubernetes + Bare Metal?
Traditional PaaS solutions run on virtualized infrastructure: adding layers of abstraction between your code and the hardware. Each layer introduces overhead, complexity, and potential points of failure.
Galaxy Metal combines Kubernetes orchestration with bare metal servers. You get the flexibility and automation of Kubernetes without the performance penalty of virtualization.
How RKE2 Enables Self-Healing
We use Rancher Kubernetes Engine 2 (RKE2) to enable automated scaling, self-healing, and rolling deployments. When something goes wrong, the system automatically recovers. When traffic spikes, resources scale up. When you deploy, the rollout happens progressively with automatic rollback on failure.
Multi-Cloud from Day One
Our cloud-agnostic architecture works across AWS, OVH, and other providers. This isn’t bolt-on functionality we added later: it’s fundamental to how Galaxy Metal works. You choose where your application runs based on your requirements, not ours.
The Path to SOC 2
Security and compliance were design requirements, not afterthoughts. The architecture we built supports SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certification requirements. We’re on track for both certifications in 2026.
Read the full technical breakdown →
Day 3: The Galaxy Crew
The future isn’t built by companies alone. It’s built by communities: developers, creators, and builders who share knowledge, create content, and push the ecosystem forward.
On Wednesday, we introduced The Galaxy Crew: three interconnected spaces designed to empower the voices shaping our ecosystem.
Galaxy Crew Writers
A curated program for talented writers to create strategic, high-quality content about development, deployment, and the technologies we support.
What Writers Get:
- $60–$100 per published article
- Exclusive badge in forums
- Opportunities to appear on the podcast and YouTube
- Monthly themes and editorial support
- Recognition and amplification of your work
Requirements:
- 3-month commitment
- Minimum 1 article per month
- Applications reviewed monthly
We’re not looking for marketing content. We’re looking for authentic perspectives from developers who have something to say.
Galaxy Crew Forums
The central hub where the Galaxy community comes alive. This is where developers introduce themselves, share projects, ask questions, get feedback, and connect with fellow crew members.
Whether you’re deploying your first app or running a production system serving millions of users, the forums are your space to learn, share, and build together.
Galaxy Crew Podcast
Weekly conversations exploring what’s happening now and what comes next. Four distinct segments keep things focused:
- Meteor Core: Framework evolution and roadmap with the core team
- Leadership & Entrepreneurship: Building and scaling companies with CTOs and founders
- Tech Signals: Emerging trends in tech, AI, and developer experience
- Community Voices: Maintainers, contributors, and creators who make this ecosystem thrive
The Galaxy Crew is open to everyone. From first-time developers to seasoned founders, what matters is curiosity, contribution, and the desire to explore what’s next.
Day 4: First-Class AdonisJS Support
On Thursday, we sat down with Harminder Virk, creator of AdonisJS, to discuss the framework’s philosophy, the upcoming version 7, and why Galaxy provides the ideal deployment platform for Adonis applications.
The AdonisJS Philosophy
Nearly 10 years ago, there was a problem: developers had to make too many decisions before building anything. Choose an auth library. Pick an ORM. Set up file uploads. Configure email. Wire up validation.
Harminder created AdonisJS to solve that problem. The framework ships with official packages for everything you need, all integrated and working from day one. You focus on building your application, not assembling tooling.
What’s Coming in AdonisJS 7
The main theme of version 7 is end-to-end type safety through Tuyau: a tool that scans your entire backend and generates a fully typed client for your frontend.
Define your routes and controllers once. Your frontend automatically knows:
- What endpoints exist
- What data they accept
- What responses they return
Change something in the backend, and the types update everywhere: frontend code, tests, API calls. No more manual synchronization. No more runtime errors from API contract mismatches.
Additional improvements include OpenTelemetry integration for observability, enhanced code generation, and significant performance improvements.
AI Integration and Development Velocity
AdonisJS is building deep AI integration through Claude Code skills, MCP servers, and specialized sub-agents for different application types. The framework’s opinionated structure makes it easy for AI to understand and generate Adonis code.
Harminder shared that he built an entire billing system: checkout flow, payment processing, fulfillment in a single evening using AI with Adonis. The framework provides clear guardrails that help AI generate correct, production-ready code.
Galaxy ♥️ AdonisJS
Galaxy already provides first-class support for deploying AdonisJS applications today. Support for version 7 is coming soon.
Whether you’re building a startup MVP or a production system, Galaxy gives you a deployment platform that matches AdonisJS’s philosophy: batteries included, minimal configuration, maximum productivity.
Watch the full conversation with Harminder Virk →
Day 5: Meteor 3.4 with Rspack
We closed Expansion Week with the biggest Meteor performance upgrade in years.
Meteor 3.4 introduces the Rspack bundler—a Rust-based build tool that delivers dramatically faster builds and smaller bundles while maintaining full compatibility with the Meteor ecosystem.
The Numbers
- 70% faster builds on average
- 4x faster rebuilds during development
- 88% smaller client bundles through real tree shaking
- 42% reduction in production deployment size
Real-world example: The Galaxy Cloud application’s main bundle went from 8.5MB to 1MB. That’s not incremental improvement—that’s a fundamental shift.
What Rspack Enables
Built on Rust for Maximum Performance
JavaScript tooling has always carried overhead. Rust eliminates it. No garbage collection pauses. Native parallel processing. Memory safety without runtime cost. The result: build times that compete with any modern framework.
Real Tree Shaking
Import a library in legacy Meteor, and the entire library gets bundled. With Rspack, you get only what you use. Unused code doesn’t make it to production.
Hot Module Replacement That Actually Works
Change your code, save the file, see the result in under a second. No full reload. No lost application state. The developer experience you expect from modern tooling.
Modern Framework Support
Full compatibility with React, Vue, Solid, Angular, and React Compiler. ESM support including React Router v7. Asset imports with build-time optimization. Workbox for PWA and service workers.
Legacy Support Maintained
Everything still works. CoffeeScript? Blaze? Atmosphere packages? Your existing Meteor apps upgrade without breaking. The path forward preserves the past.
A Performance Era for Meteor
This release represents a performance age for Meteor. After years of evolution, the bundler, build times, and bundle sizes are now competitive with any modern framework.
The perception of Meteor as “slow” or having “huge bundles” is officially outdated. The numbers prove it.
Galaxy already supports Meteor 3.4. Deploy your apps today and experience the difference.
Watch the Meteor team explain what’s new →
Looking Forward
This week was years in the making. Rebuilding an entire platform while keeping thousands of apps running isn’t easy, but it’s what needed to happen for Galaxy to serve developers for the next decade.
Thank you for being part of this journey. Galaxy wouldn’t exist without the community and the developers who have trusted us with their applications for over 10 years.
See you at the next one.
Gabs Ferreira
Head of Marketing and DevRel at Galaxy