> ...when Fly.io launched, it had a pretty simple use case: taking conventional web applications and speeding them up, by converting them into Firecracker Micro

> ...when Fly.io launched, it had a pretty simple use case: taking conventional web applications and speeding them up, by converting them into Firecracker MicroVMs that we can run close to users on a network of servers around the world. Technically, when fly.io first launched, its usecase was fast, anycast "middleware" for web apps: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/04/pushing-apps-to-the-edge-fly-io-puts-middleware-in-the-cloud/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/04/pushi... :)