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10 years ago fly.io is the company I wanted to build. Something with massive technical depth that becomes a developer product. They're doing an incredible job a

by asim 4y ago

10 years ago fly.io is the company I wanted to build. Something with massive technical depth that becomes a developer product. They're doing an incredible job and part of that comes down to how they evangelise the product outside of all the technical hackery. This requires so much continued effort. AND THEN to actually run a business on top of all that. Kudos to you guys. I struggled so much with this. Wish you nothing but continued success.

ignoramous 4y ago
5 years ago, fly.io was basically poor man's deno.com / oven.sh [0]. In my (incorrect) opinion, tptacek changed fly.io's trajectory single-handedly. [0] https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/r-1hXDvOoHA https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/r-1hXDvOoHA
- stingraycharles 4y ago
  What is @tptacek’s relation with fly.io, and how did he change it?
  - ignoramous 4y ago
    tptacek is a security researcher and principal at fly.io [0]. And as an outsider looking in, seems to have been the eng behind some of their defining features [1]: - udp support - container2vm overhaul - private networks aka 6pn - some key flyctl (cli) commands like flyctl ssh, flyctl proxy - metrics - litefs - perhaps, the imminent overhaul of the orchestration layer (?) - the upcoming authz layer [0] https://archive.is/Zwzlh https://archive.is/Zwzlh [1] https://community.fly.io/u/thomas/activity/topics https://community.fly.io/u/thomas/activity/topics | https://fly.io/blog/author/thomas/ https://fly.io/blog/author/thomas/
    - yencabulator 4y ago
      > seems to have been the eng behind some of their defining features > - litefs That glory goes to https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=benbjohnson https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=benbjohnson
    - tptacek 4y ago
      GAH NO.
- tptacek 4y ago
  No? No. No!
  - ignoramous 4y ago
    You won't change my mind with 3 No's. A fourth however...
    - tptacek 4y ago
      I had literally nothing to do with Fly.io's switch from Javascript to Firecracker. Happened months and months before I joined.
      - ignoramous 4y ago
        I don't want to come off as downplaying others engs at Fly (esp those from Compose.io) [0], but I wanted to point out how there's a marked difference between the period from when you joined them and years preceding that. A catalyst? Of course, I claim no inside knowledge, so I may very well be mistaken (: [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9937023 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9937023

by asim 4y ago

ignoramous 4y ago

5 years ago, fly.io was basically poor man's deno.com / oven.sh [0]. In my (incorrect) opinion, tptacek changed fly.io's trajectory single-handedly. [0] https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/r-1hXDvOoHA https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/r-1hXDvOoHA

stingraycharles 4y ago
What is @tptacek’s relation with fly.io, and how did he change it?
- ignoramous 4y ago
  tptacek is a security researcher and principal at fly.io [0]. And as an outsider looking in, seems to have been the eng behind some of their defining features [1]: - udp support - container2vm overhaul - private networks aka 6pn - some key flyctl (cli) commands like flyctl ssh, flyctl proxy - metrics - litefs - perhaps, the imminent overhaul of the orchestration layer (?) - the upcoming authz layer [0] https://archive.is/Zwzlh https://archive.is/Zwzlh [1] https://community.fly.io/u/thomas/activity/topics https://community.fly.io/u/thomas/activity/topics | https://fly.io/blog/author/thomas/ https://fly.io/blog/author/thomas/
  - yencabulator 4y ago
    > seems to have been the eng behind some of their defining features > - litefs That glory goes to https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=benbjohnson https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=benbjohnson
  - tptacek 4y ago
    GAH NO.
tptacek 4y ago
No? No. No!
- ignoramous 4y ago
  You won't change my mind with 3 No's. A fourth however...
  - tptacek 4y ago
    I had literally nothing to do with Fly.io's switch from Javascript to Firecracker. Happened months and months before I joined.
    - ignoramous 4y ago
      I don't want to come off as downplaying others engs at Fly (esp those from Compose.io) [0], but I wanted to point out how there's a marked difference between the period from when you joined them and years preceding that. A catalyst? Of course, I claim no inside knowledge, so I may very well be mistaken (: [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9937023 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9937023