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"vs." (versus) is misleading; TLDR Fly.io likes and claims alignment with MRSK, which is 37signals/DHH's new mechanism for managing dockerized apps with a stro
by chrisweekly 4y ago
"vs." (versus) is misleading;
TLDR Fly.io likes and claims alignment with MRSK, which is 37signals/DHH's new mechanism for managing dockerized apps with a strong "get off the cloud, run it locally" story.
- dcre 4y agoSecond half is a comparison!
- stingraycharles 4y agoYeah they’re completely and totally different things. Fly.io is actually hosting servers / services, while MRSK is basically a bunch of scripts to deploy things using Docker containers. It’s like comparing AWS with Chef. Maybe there’s some overlap in philosophy, but that’s about it. Maybe fly.io is just using it as a way to do a bit of marketing.
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- paxys 4y agoA head to head comparison makes some amount of sense. Fly.io is a platform-as-a-service provider, and natively handles stuff like like building/storing images and orchestrating your services across their DC. MRSK is a direct competitor to Fly's own orchestrator, and is meant for use when hosting on your own hardware or on a VM rented from an infrastructure provider. So it's still a "use either A or B" situation. I guess a better title would be – Hosting on the Fly.io platform vs. on your own servers/VMs with MRSK.
- sergiotapia 4y agoSeems like Fly is trying to borrow some thunder here haha
- PKop 4y agoThat's them being respectful, but make no mistake the point of the blog post is "vs"
- d4rti 4y agoThis is a competitive post par excellence, for politeness, accuracy and still doing a great job of demonstrating fly.io's key competitive points vs MRSK. I'd love it if all 'vs' and competitive marketing was this good.