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What is fly.io ?
by igravious 4y ago
What is fly.io ?
- blooalien 4y agoIs it actually faster / easier to ask that question here and wait for an answer from some random person, or to simply click the link and read the first few sentences on the site to answer your own question almost immediately?
- mbreese 4y agoI don’t know. For most other sites, I’d agree with you. But with fly.io, it might actually be better to ask here.
- indigodaddy 4y agoI’m sure tptacek has some good summarizing paragraph or couple of sentences somewhere on some HN comment (to succinctly describe fly.imo)
- serf 4y agodevil's advocate : ok. I went to fly.io. here's what it says. "Deploy App Servers Close to Your Users Run your full stack apps (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. " Now, what does that mean?
- fastball 4y agoIt means they're a PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service), but instead of hosting your webapp on one VPS in a Frankfurt datacenter, they replicate your webapp (and databases!) all over the world so that latency is as low as possible for your end users and there is not one SPoF (Single Point of Failure).
- indigodaddy 4y agoSo they sense if your docker thingy has a db (could be any flavor of db?), and they figure out db replication across all the “edge nodes/firecracker thingies” thru deploy for your app?