Migrating from AWS to Fly.io

Post by robertlagrant » Wed, Jan 04, 2023, 10:02 AM UTC

nikita wrote: post #116

belmont_sup wrote: post #113

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I like their strategy of outsourcing what they’re not best at to the best. They partnered with upstash, and now they’ve got a new feature almost immediately. Sure there’s a lot of vetting, but wrapping products is common. I’d be happy if they can wrap Neon’s serverless postgres service into their networks somehow.

Neon CEO here. We are working on becoming first party service on several major problems now. We will be happy to provide this for Fly. Kurt and I have been chatting. Fly wants cross region replication which is coming soon. Once it's there we can integrate. With that Neon is still on AWS and can be close to Fly, but not run on Fly servers. It's relatively straightforward for us to run on Fly, but the S3 part will stil…

Post by nix23 » Wed, Jan 04, 2023, 10:39 AM UTC

dist1ll wrote: post #144

dxxvi wrote: post #138

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You can get 4 virtual ARM CPU + 24GB RAM + 200GB hard disk for $0/month at Oracle cloud. Nothing can beat that.

Any caveats? This sounds really great.

Post by speedgoose » Wed, Jan 04, 2023, 11:05 AM UTC

dist1ll wrote: post #144

dxxvi wrote: post #138

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You can get 4 virtual ARM CPU + 24GB RAM + 200GB hard disk for $0/month at Oracle cloud. Nothing can beat that.

Any caveats? This sounds really great.

Post by wink » Wed, Jan 04, 2023, 11:13 AM UTC

  * deploying (re)builds your container but doesn't even tag it locally, so if you just built one, it will build the exact same one again and on the other hand you are left guessing which hash is the container that the tool just built. 

  * if you start with your own Dockerfile the mandatory options in fly.toml are not described overly well, so a bit of fiddling

  * recently I redeployed and without any real change (just a new code build) it wouldn't deploy, I had to remove some of the settings in fly.toml that I had guessed at to make it work in the summer to make it work now - no changelog anywhere

  * if your app is coming close to some assumed limit on the services.concurrency (which is not documented well), again you need to guess and redeploy until it works

Post by cebu » Wed, Jan 04, 2023, 12:07 PM UTC

nine_k wrote: post #118

garganzol wrote: post #79

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What stops you from using a managed database from a provider who specializes in it? If Fly builds it, it will create another Goliath who tries to eat everything.

> What stops you from using a managed database from a provider who specializes in it? A lack of integrated security and authorization? Should be solvable though. The expense of external traffic? The latency to a DB in a different datacenter?