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just started to use them for an elixir/phoenix project. multi region with distributed nodes just works. feels almost magically after all the aws work I've done

just started to use them for an elixir/phoenix project. multi region with distributed nodes just works. feels almost magically after all the aws work I've done the past few years.

tiffanyh 5y ago
What’s magically? I was under the impression that fly.io today (though they are working on it) doesn’t do anything unique to make hosting elixir/Phoenix app easier. See this comment by the fly.io team. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27704852 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27704852
- mcintyre1994 5y ago
  They're not doing anything special to make Elixir specifically better yet, but their private networking is already amazing for it - you can cluster across arbitrary regions completely trivially. It's a really good fit for Elixir clustering as-is even without anything specially built for it. I have no idea how you'd do multi-region clustering in AWS but I'm certain it'd be a lot harder.
- tptacek 5y ago
  I still wouldn't say we do any magic Elixir stuff; rather, our platform just happens to have a combination of features (particularly edge delivery for stuff like LiveView and zero-config private networking for clustering) that make Elixir apps sing. But we've got full-time people working on Elixir now, too; we'll see where that goes. We've still got Elixir limerence here. :)
  - pm 5y ago
    Hey Thomas, weren’t you running Latacora last time I checked?
    - wolf550e 5y ago
      See: https://twitter.com/tqbf/status/1232843986529849344 https://twitter.com/tqbf/status/1232843986529849344 https://twitter.com/tqbf/status/1276214060036632576 https://twitter.com/tqbf/status/1276214060036632576 https://twitter.com/tqbf/status/1288891834131939329 https://twitter.com/tqbf/status/1288891834131939329
    - tptacek 5y ago
      I haven't been at Latacora for a while now.