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I really like Fly and would love to move some side project workloads to it, the only thing holding me back is the Postgres product which seems to be a little bi

by 0xy 5y ago

I really like Fly and would love to move some side project workloads to it, the only thing holding me back is the Postgres product which seems to be a little bit 'not ready for production'. I'm referring to point-in-time recovery and ease of backup restoration mostly. The product looks too good to be true, and when you dig into a little deeper it seems like it isn't totally 100%. Amazon RDS is something that I really trust, but I didn't get the same vibe looking at Fly Postgres.

austinpena 5y ago
I mentioned a very similar thing to them on this community post. (May 18th) https://community.fly.io/t/fly-with-a-managed-database/1493 https://community.fly.io/t/fly-with-a-managed-database/1493 Their response was this: > Our goal in life is to solve managed postgres in the next few months. Either us managing, or with someone like Crunchy Data running on top of Fly. So “hold tight” might also be good advice.
mrkurt 5y ago
Our Postgres is not an RDS replacement. Lots of devs use RDS with Fly. In fact, Postgres on Fly is just a normal Fly app that you can run yourself: https://github.com/fly-apps/postgres-ha https://github.com/fly-apps/postgres-ha Ultimately, we think devs are better off if managed database services come from companies who specialize in those DBs. First party managed DBs trend towards mediocre, all the interesting Postgres features come from Heroku/Crunchy/Timescale/Supabase. So we're "saving" managed Postgres for one of those folks. For the most part, they're more interested in giving AWS money because very large potential customers do. At some point, though, we'll be big enough to be attractive to DB companies.
Rodeoclash 5y ago
I have a few toy apps on Fly and while I do like the service, it has been flaky. E.g. 12 hours ago my app raised a number of errors as it got disconnected from the Postgres database. This isn't a show stopper for me as they're toys, but I would be somewhat wary of moving critical production apps to it just yet. (Also, everything else aside from PG has been rock solid for me)

by 0xy 5y ago

austinpena 5y ago

I mentioned a very similar thing to them on this community post. (May 18th) https://community.fly.io/t/fly-with-a-managed-database/1493 https://community.fly.io/t/fly-with-a-managed-database/1493 Their response was this: > Our goal in life is to solve managed postgres in the next few months. Either us managing, or with someone like Crunchy Data running on top of Fly. So “hold tight” might also be good advice.

mrkurt 5y ago

Our Postgres is not an RDS replacement. Lots of devs use RDS with Fly. In fact, Postgres on Fly is just a normal Fly app that you can run yourself: https://github.com/fly-apps/postgres-ha https://github.com/fly-apps/postgres-ha Ultimately, we think devs are better off if managed database services come from companies who specialize in those DBs. First party managed DBs trend towards mediocre, all the interesting Postgres features come from Heroku/Crunchy/Timescale/Supabase. So we're "saving" managed Postgres for one of those folks. For the most part, they're more interested in giving AWS money because very large potential customers do. At some point, though, we'll be big enough to be attractive to DB companies.

Rodeoclash 5y ago

I have a few toy apps on Fly and while I do like the service, it has been flaky. E.g. 12 hours ago my app raised a number of errors as it got disconnected from the Postgres database. This isn't a show stopper for me as they're toys, but I would be somewhat wary of moving critical production apps to it just yet. (Also, everything else aside from PG has been rock solid for me)