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We raised a bunch of money

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Re: We raised a bunch of money

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Post by tptacek »

yieldcrv wrote: post #16

so I'm guessing Vercel and Netlify deploy cloud functions only to the "least worst datacenter"? while Fly.io deploys compute instances to more regions and also has a database? asking because I've been content with Vercel and Netlify's CDN for frontend assets and simply stopped doing system design around relational storage, when I want to stay on a free tier.

We're a full stack platform, most frequently compared to Heroku --- a place you'd run a Rails, Elixir, or Django app.

Re: We raised a bunch of money

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Post by lawrencechen »

> There are two kinds of platform companies : the kind where you can get your Python or Rust or Julia code running nicely, and the kind where you find a way to recompile it to Javascript.

Playful jab on Cloudflare and Deno. Would be interesting if Fly took up hosting "WASM containers" in addition to Docker containers.

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Post by phaer »

yolo3000 wrote: post #8

So if the bookstore doesn't think it's worth it to spend more than 2 hours on deploying to the edge, maybe it's not that important to them, or :) ?

I think fly.io believes that they can allow the bookstore to do so in less than two hours for a price where it's still important enough for the bookstore and profitable - in aggregate - for fly.io.

I personally believe that could be true, but their investors going to find out ;)

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Post by tptacek »

bryanlarsen wrote: post #14
kayodelycaon wrote: post #6

> What people actually wanted to talk about, though? Databases. And they completely avoid discussing it again in this article. It would be nice if I could know what their product is for because it doesn't seem to be the apps I work on.

This is a "raised money" post. So presumably they raised money so they can have a database answer in the future.

We have a multi-region single-write-leader Postgres offering now, but "databases" means lots of things to lots of people, and the platform strategy is to build durable storage primitives that work for as many different databases as possible. People run things like Cockroach here, and edge deployment also makes SQLite especially interesting.

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Post by joshcanhelp »

A but if a side note but … their jobs page is pretty great. Nothing available but they already have very specific and interesting descriptions written for all the positions they have or expect to have. Feels like they are being very mindful about the company they are building.

Re: We raised a bunch of money

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Post by candiddevmike »

geraldwhen wrote: post #2

“ The result of this is an Internet where all of the world's CRUD apps are hosted in Loudoun County, VA (motto: "where tradition meets innovation"), at Amazon's us-east-1 in Ashburn, a city with so many Rails apps that one of them was elected to the county Board of Supervisors.” So true it hurts

Unfortunately for fly, us-east-1 has better reliability then their product.
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