Reliability: It’s not great
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Reliability: It’s not great
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#2One of my colleagues keeps repeating “reliability is our number one feature”.
I’m not sure it is for 100% of early stage startups, but I guess it is once you exceed some minimum usage threshold.
That said, definitely appreciate the detailed explanation.
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#3For django, they should really contribute to 2 scoops django cookie cutter program, so that you can get an out of the box django instance that can just deploy to Fly.io.
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#5I'm not a user of Fly.io. I can't help but notice how remarkable the effect of open communication on potential end users like me. I remember reading about their reliability problems on HN some time ago. That biased my view of the company. After reading this, the open communication and transparency restored my trust in them, and would make them again a potential candidate for future projects. Because now I know that they acknowledge the problem and that they are trying to improve things.
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#7Would the simple solve be that Fly.io just mark any new service of theirs “beta” for x-months post launch?
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#8I'm not a user of Fly.io. I can't help but notice how remarkable the effect of open communication on potential end users like me. I remember reading about their reliability problems on HN some time ago. That biased my view of the company. After reading this, the open communication and transparency restored my trust in them, and would make them again a potential candidate for future projects. Because now I know that t…
mrkurt[1] is also active here and has been very transparent in his comments about scaling issues.
Similar to this post he commented a week ago:
> In a year we'll either be ahead of those, or not growing anymore due to ongoing capacity issues. I'm hoping for the former.
I am rooting for Fly! Great team. The company reminds me of early HashiCorp.
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#9It's been almost a year since I gave Fly a review (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31391116) and it's a bummer that they're still struggling to get things right. Double bummer because I love Phoenix and Elixir and they employ Chris McCord there.
Maybe they were _too_ ambitious at the start? They have a hard road ahead of them, and competition like Render.com and Northflank have provided me with solutions to all of my problems. Great dev ux, great prices and predictable solutions. They also keep pushing out very useful features. A third competitor also sprung up Railway! There's certainly blood in the water.
Will they catch up to others before the competition solves the "global mesh" unique value proposition Fly.io currently has? That's the $1MM question.
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#10I'm a big fan of fly.io. From their hiring process to the product itself it's all carried out in a thoughtful manner. I hope they can weather this rough time.