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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:

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

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