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Can someone explain what fly.io actually is for someone with an AWS background?
by pharmakom 4y ago
Can someone explain what fly.io actually is for someone with an AWS background?
- jjtheblunt 4y agothe website for fly.io is extremely well written in explaining fly.io in terms of AWS
- ipaddr 4y agoSo no? I went to the site and didn't see anything nor did a google search turn up anything
- jjtheblunt 4y agohttps://fly.io/blog/fly-io-is-hiring-rust-developers/ https://fly.io/blog/fly-io-is-hiring-rust-developers/
- tptacek 4y agoWe run hardware, our own physical servers, in a bunch of regions around the world. We have an API (and a CLI) that will take a Docker container (or a Dockerfile, or a bunch of other things), turn it into a VM, and it run it on that hardware. That VM is given a routable Anycast IP address, so your users will automatically tend to hit the closest instances of your app. Hope that helps!
- jsmeaton 4y agoHaving a go at writing the elevator pitch myself, since I think the others I've read have been overly technical. It's a platform as a service. It'll take your docker application (usually a web application) and run it on the internet. It'll also allow you to run it in many locations around the world transparently (using the same IP address / anycast) so that users closer to those locations will get better/lower latency. It's a CDN for your application. (There's more to it than this, but as far as elevator pitches go, sufficient?)
- xena 4y agoIt's Uber for Heroku
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