I can't see where your server locations are, it'd be great to see that. I have some region specific needs.
The regions are listed in the docs: https://fly.io/docs/regions/#discovering-your-applications-r...
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Re: Launch HN: Fly.io (YC W20) – Deploy app servers close to your users
#232Wouldn't this drastically increase database latency?
Re: Launch HN: Fly.io (YC W20) – Deploy app servers close to your users
#233Let's Encrypt was introduced so that money will never be a barrier/excuse for https. In these days it must be a default feature. Pocketing half for something generated for free is not a good signal for me. Yes other half is donated but, isn't that supposed to be optional? Let's Encrypt is supported by huge organizations. And on fly.io, The customer is already paying for compute.
This is a reasonable take. Let’s Encrypt is amazing and we don’t want to diminish their importance at all. We charge for certificates because the infrastructure to make SSL work (even when the certificates themselves are free) is complicated. Managing certificate creation can be tricky, we have to deal with all kinds of edge cases (like mismatched A and AAAA records breaking validation). We also generate both RSA and…
This is a great answer and imo should go in your FAQ [0] because charging for let's-encrypt certs does come off as disingenuous especially when AWS, Netlify, and Zeit and other services offer to do so, for free, despite them having to maintain a PKI which isn't exactly a walk in the park (like you point out).
[0] You are missing a FAQs page.
Re: Launch HN: Fly.io (YC W20) – Deploy app servers close to your users
#234Hey all! I had the chance to see everyone from Fly.io at Hack Arizona -- they gave a presentation before the hackathon began. That presentation displayed the worst work/life balance I think I've ever seen. Every trope was there: "we're not coworkers, we're family", "our developers love to work, they do it out of love", virtue signaling, etc, etc. The whole shebang. Just my two cents, but I really feel that this is a…
> "we're not coworkers, we're family", "our developers love to work, they do it out of love", virtue signaling, etc, etc. The whole shebang.
It is a filter. If it keeps you away from them, the filter worked? Fwiw, a younger me would find this proposition very attractive.
Re: Launch HN: Fly.io (YC W20) – Deploy app servers close to your users
#235Wouldn't this drastically increase database latency?
Yes, but not if you can afford to cache reads, either in-memory, locally on-disk, or in a distributed redis-cluster they offer out-of-the-box. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22619275
They plan to add many more capabilities wrt db: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22619613
Writes... remain expensive.
Re: Launch HN: Fly.io (YC W20) – Deploy app servers close to your users
#236Tried deploying a simple Heroku echo app and put it through KeyCDN performance test... The fly.io instances actually perform worse in terms of TTFB compared to a single Heroku deployment in AMS.
Here are some stats. https://i.imgur.com/Qt1p29G.png
Re: Launch HN: Fly.io (YC W20) – Deploy app servers close to your users
#237Hey all! I had the chance to see everyone from Fly.io at Hack Arizona -- they gave a presentation before the hackathon began. That presentation displayed the worst work/life balance I think I've ever seen. Every trope was there: "we're not coworkers, we're family", "our developers love to work, they do it out of love", virtue signaling, etc, etc. The whole shebang. Just my two cents, but I really feel that this is a…
(Disclaimer: I am a Fly.io founder)
I don't recall us being at Hack Arizona, certainly not me. I googled it and all it yielded was this HN post.
Your comment couldn't be further from the truth. I can't speak for whoever used these words (if they did), but I think we have pretty great work/life balance.
We all have families of our own and recognize they are far more important than our business. These things happen, such is life. Your kid gets sick, you want to care for them. Time off is always paid and we encourage people to take some. People often find it hard to take time off, but we've been good at it.
Nobody, generally, works more than 40 hours a week. I say "generally" because these past few weeks have been more intense given the end of our YC adventure, demo day, virtually meeting with investors and this Launch HN post. In normal times, I might work a few hours on a weekend but only if that brings me joy.
... and of course we're very flexible on work schedules because we're a remote-only company. Some weeks this might mean working only a few hours here and there because of life activities or the need to take time off. Other weeks, it might be the opposite. We recognize and embrace that.
Re: Launch HN: Fly.io (YC W20) – Deploy app servers close to your users
#238Hey this sounds a lot like Cloudlets / edge computing! Really happy to see some real world applications out there: http://elijah.cs.cmu.edu/
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#239Re: Launch HN: Fly.io (YC W20) – Deploy app servers close to your users
#240Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah not yet. :sob: We're going to expand there and India as fast as we can.
Good to know, this looks great! Btw any plans to support Java applications?
If you can build it in a Docker image or if you can deploy it to Heroku, then we support it :)
If it doesn't work, it's a bug.