Migrating our backend from Vercel to Fly.io

Post by NicoJuicy » Mon, Oct 30, 2023, 6:55 AM UTC

shrubble wrote: post #50

NicoJuicy wrote: post #8

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Edge functions are cost effective, the problem is that they are comparing from Vercel. Vercel is basically a dev friendly wrapper for tier 1 services: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35774730 Eg. Vercel is 25x more expensive than eg. Cloudflare Workers. Raw guess would be that their 150$ bill would have become 6$. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37891412 Eg. Image resizing > Vercel : 5$ / 1000 requests > Cl…

According to this page at Cloudflare, their pricing is 50 cents per 1000, is that correct? Or is it a different product... https://blog.cloudflare.com/merging-images-and-image-resizin...

Post by pjmlp » Mon, Oct 30, 2023, 7:33 AM UTC

Lucasoato wrote: post #13

I really don’t understand how people can trust platforms like Vercel, Fly.io over robust could providers like Cloudflare, AWS or Azure. I mean, Vercel has its usefulness, it’s so well integrated with the NextJS stack, it totally makes sense for small amateurish projects since it saves you time and money… but once you want to push to production, have real customers and satisfy them reliably, these platforms can’t comp…

Post by tibozaurus » Mon, Oct 30, 2023, 8:27 AM UTC

ies7 wrote: post #112

reducesuffering wrote: post #84

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Are Adobe, Splunk, Washington Post, Netflix, Zapier, Notion, and Uber toys? Because they're running on Vercel infra.

Its not about vercel or fly.io. Its about openstatus dev Their migration timeline from their blog: 1. August 2, 48 hours after public launch 400+ users 2. August 20, migrate from planetscale to turso (sqlite) 3. Oct 29, migrate from vercel to fly.io, migrate from nextjs to hono, also mentioned change to bunjs. This is seems like they tend to (sorry I'm judging here): 1. move fast break things or 2. don't have a plan…

Post by maccard » Mon, Oct 30, 2023, 8:38 AM UTC

SOLAR_FIELDS wrote: post #31

maccard wrote: post #23

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> People using lambda functions are getting ripped off, they could just buy a couple of VPS. A non-zero amount of our CICD pipelines are "perform API call with secret pulled from SSM/Secrets Manager". They happen 1-2 times per day and take less than a 5 seconds to run on each invocation. We currently have a burstable EC2 instance running 24/7 to handle these which costs us ~$5/mo. My napkin math says that this would…

Also, if you implement it as lambdas, your solution is now less portable. Your EC2 instance can probably be ported to something else easier than some lambda solution.

Post by robertlagrant » Mon, Oct 30, 2023, 8:54 AM UTC

urschrei wrote: post #68

robertlagrant wrote: post #38

Why is Fly apparently so unstable? I like many love the idea, but get a little scared by the many many anecdotes of issues. What are they doing that makes it unstable? Lots of new locations spinning up that shake bugs loose? Cost-reducing refactorings that reduce stability?

(Fly customer for the past 12 months: small web app (three machines across two regions plus replicated Postgres across two regions, on a paid plan)). Fly has been extremely stable for us, with the sole exception of deploys: once a month or so, deploys from CI start failing for a couple of hours. That doesn’t result in any downtime (I have never experienced any downtime due to a failing machine on Fly), just that new…