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Fly.io's blog posts are incredible, they really seem to really enjoy what they do and want to share what they've made with everyone else. I love them for that.

Fly.io's blog posts are incredible, they really seem to really enjoy what they do and want to share what they've made with everyone else. I love them for that. I wish that more companies could be like this and skip the corporate BS, it shows that they really have something outstanding to offer.

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samwillis 5y ago
I think their super power here is employing a renowned security expert who is an incredibly good communicator! (And happens to be a top HN contributor)
- myth_drannon 5y ago
  And they also employ Phoenix framework creator.
- Karrot_Kream 5y ago
  I'm pretty sure their experience running an ISP helps too heh.
  - tptacek 5y ago
    It's definitely all my talent that keeps this place running. I'm definitely not just a noisy message board guy who got hired after most of this infrastructure was built and deployed and then just proceeded to make a bunch of message board noise about it.
    - swyx 5y ago
      see, this is why the people love reading what you write. keep giving credit but also having fun!
- philosopher1234 5y ago
  Nit: THE top HN contributor
  - purplerabbit 5y ago
    my goodness, you're right... https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders (edit: by a factor of ~2, no less!)
    - rcoveson 5y ago
      I like how he decided he should only copyright his comments from years 2010 + Fn.
jcul 5y ago
They really are. Feels like working there would be really fun.
Bayart 5y ago
It think it's the only corporate blog I know of that's on my much-read list (ie. every post goes to the top of the pile).
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mbesto 5y ago
> I wish that more companies could be like this and skip the corporate BS, it shows that they really have something outstanding to offer. The nature of the blog typically cater towards the intended audience. The CIO of Disney doesn't give a sh*t if the protocol is called WireGuard or OpenVPN or that if it uses AES-256 encryption - he/she wants someone to tell them that their developers are securely accessing their infrastructure. Full stop. If/when Fly gets to that level (let's say $500M in revenue) their blog tone will likely change - their audience is almost primarily developers and startup CTOs...for now.
- tptacek 5y ago
  So Eden sank to grief, so dawn goes down to day.
- mrkurt 5y ago
  For better or worse, I can guarantee you that we won't ever write articles for the Disney CIO. Unless I get fired. Whitepapers. They want whitepapers and magic quadrants.
  - mbesto 5y ago
    > we won't ever write articles > Whitepapers. I probably should have said "content" instead of blog because I agree 100% with this. Point still stands. What the OP was referring to will likely become part of an engineering blog. a la : https://codeascraft.com/ https://codeascraft.com/
  - dangerboysteve 5y ago
    Correction, magic kingdom quadrants.
  - xarope 5y ago
    White papers are to CxOs what TED talks are for the uninformed, an easy way to get someone up to speed on a highly complicated subject, and more fool them (meaning the uninformed) if they think it means they are now an expert, which sadly a lot do (think they are now an expert). I kind of miss the IBM ITSO Redbooks. No idea if they still maintain the same quality today, but in the 90s and pre-internet/google/wiki etc, they were fonts of deep knowledge.
dan-robertson 5y ago
A lot of (small–medium sized, tech) companies just don’t have a process to get things out on their blog like this. It might be that only a few senior people have the ability to write posts and they are not interested or busy with other things, or it might be that there is a slow review process for posts that makes writing them unpleasant, or it might be that they don’t want to reveal IP or have an opinion and so have little to talk about. Another company that does a good job of writing blog posts, often timely posts about current (and relevant) events, is cloudflare though their posts have a quite different energy to Fly.io’s.
- ignoramous 5y ago
  Yep. Read also: https://danluu.com/corp-eng-blogs/ https://danluu.com/corp-eng-blogs/

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samwillis 5y ago

I think their super power here is employing a renowned security expert who is an incredibly good communicator! (And happens to be a top HN contributor)

myth_drannon 5y ago
And they also employ Phoenix framework creator.
Karrot_Kream 5y ago
I'm pretty sure their experience running an ISP helps too heh.
- tptacek 5y ago
  It's definitely all my talent that keeps this place running. I'm definitely not just a noisy message board guy who got hired after most of this infrastructure was built and deployed and then just proceeded to make a bunch of message board noise about it.
  - swyx 5y ago
    see, this is why the people love reading what you write. keep giving credit but also having fun!
philosopher1234 5y ago
Nit: THE top HN contributor
- purplerabbit 5y ago
  my goodness, you're right... https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders (edit: by a factor of ~2, no less!)
  - rcoveson 5y ago
    I like how he decided he should only copyright his comments from years 2010 + Fn.

jcul 5y ago

They really are. Feels like working there would be really fun.

Bayart 5y ago

It think it's the only corporate blog I know of that's on my much-read list (ie. every post goes to the top of the pile).

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mbesto 5y ago

> I wish that more companies could be like this and skip the corporate BS, it shows that they really have something outstanding to offer. The nature of the blog typically cater towards the intended audience. The CIO of Disney doesn't give a sh*t if the protocol is called WireGuard or OpenVPN or that if it uses AES-256 encryption - he/she wants someone to tell them that their developers are securely accessing their infrastructure. Full stop. If/when Fly gets to that level (let's say $500M in revenue) their blog tone will likely change - their audience is almost primarily developers and startup CTOs...for now.

tptacek 5y ago
So Eden sank to grief, so dawn goes down to day.
mrkurt 5y ago
For better or worse, I can guarantee you that we won't ever write articles for the Disney CIO. Unless I get fired. Whitepapers. They want whitepapers and magic quadrants.
- mbesto 5y ago
  > we won't ever write articles > Whitepapers. I probably should have said "content" instead of blog because I agree 100% with this. Point still stands. What the OP was referring to will likely become part of an engineering blog. a la : https://codeascraft.com/ https://codeascraft.com/
- dangerboysteve 5y ago
  Correction, magic kingdom quadrants.
- xarope 5y ago
  White papers are to CxOs what TED talks are for the uninformed, an easy way to get someone up to speed on a highly complicated subject, and more fool them (meaning the uninformed) if they think it means they are now an expert, which sadly a lot do (think they are now an expert). I kind of miss the IBM ITSO Redbooks. No idea if they still maintain the same quality today, but in the 90s and pre-internet/google/wiki etc, they were fonts of deep knowledge.

dan-robertson 5y ago

A lot of (small–medium sized, tech) companies just don’t have a process to get things out on their blog like this. It might be that only a few senior people have the ability to write posts and they are not interested or busy with other things, or it might be that there is a slow review process for posts that makes writing them unpleasant, or it might be that they don’t want to reveal IP or have an opinion and so have little to talk about. Another company that does a good job of writing blog posts, often timely posts about current (and relevant) events, is cloudflare though their posts have a quite different energy to Fly.io’s.

ignoramous 5y ago
Yep. Read also: https://danluu.com/corp-eng-blogs/ https://danluu.com/corp-eng-blogs/