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by mrkurt 4y ago
Stripe for CC fraud. That part of Stripe has been great.
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by mrkurt 4y ago
Yes, this. We (Fly.io) get a lot of abuse from users with stolen credit cards, too. But credit cards are the most useful anti-fraud tool we have. When we've relaxed the credit card restriction (like on https://fly.io/la
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by mrkurt 4y ago
Heroku's Postgres is still very good. If I were looking for "very good Postgres", I would go straight to Crunchy Bridge. I don't think a PaaS is going to get anywhere near that level soon (and I work on Fly.io, so I know
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by mrkurt 4y ago
Good thing we (Fly.io) are a cloud provider you can just use directly. :)
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by mrkurt 4y ago
I'm not sure productivity maps that directly to revenue. People are wildly productive when they work remotely. What's harder is sharing context and tackling large problems with other people.
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by mrkurt 4y ago
mvSQLite checks a lot of my boxes. The FoundationDB requirement makes it suboptimal for tiny little node/rails/laravel apps, though. If we were in the business of hosting FoundationDB it'd be perfect.
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by mrkurt 4y ago
You need to consider some of what sqlite is good at. Querying local sqlite is very fast. Much lower latency than querying postgres. It's also very reliable – a local file will always work better than a network service. I'm pretty
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by mrkurt 4y ago
We added experimental support to Nixpacks for Fly.io (it's baked into our CLI). I'm very excited about it, buildpacks have been a nightmare.
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by mrkurt 4y ago
Weave is probably overkill. Firecracker or gVisor are where I'd start. Using Firecracker directly is pretty straightforward: https://jvns.ca/blog/2021/01/23/firecracker--start-a-vm-in-l... gVisor gi
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Investing in Fly.io(a16z.com)
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by mrkurt 4y ago
community.fly.io is the best place to ask about this. We don't support tcp port ranges yet. We will someday: https://community.fly.io/t/new-feature-every-public-port-now...
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by mrkurt 4y ago
This is about as non-enterprisey as it gets. It's built to make sqlite work better for tiny little node.js apps running on very cheap hosting.
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by mrkurt 4y ago
That would be an amazing hack. "LiteFS makes sqlite work on NFS".
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by mrkurt 4y ago
Yes, can confirm.
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by mrkurt 4y ago
Thomas is definitely a disingenuous scoundrel. In all seriousness, I laugh at absurd absolutes. If you show me a sentence with "Most people" and the same sentence with "Everybody", I'm going to smile at the second.
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by mrkurt 4y ago
Thomas is also an exceptionally good writer. He was honed in the forges of newsgroups and HN comments. He definitely knows the audience, but writing something like this is a special skill.
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by mrkurt 4y ago
In this context, prod means all the things you'd expect, plus: internal admin app, blog, static marketing site, old Rails app no one has touched in 2 years that one customer still needs, bash scripts to diagnose host issues, etc. There
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by mrkurt 4y ago
We definitely don't do the minimum! Our goal was to keep the scope manageable so the Type 2 certification goes smoothly. The side effect of this is that the things we _did_ put into scope are things we expect to do really well. Prevent
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by mrkurt 4y ago
The best thing about written English is how malleable it is. Everybody doesn't have to mean everybody.
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by mrkurt 4y ago
Here you go: https://github.com/fly-apps/bun Super hacky (it just has the binary in the Repo) but it works: https://bun-fun.fly.dev/
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by mrkurt 4y ago
The local newspapers failed, yes. But that's normal. Had there been a healthy market for local news, they'd have been replaced. What actually happened is that the revenue available to local news got consolidated. Classifieds and l
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by mrkurt 4y ago
We push Fly.io discussions to an internal forum (Discourse for Teams). Slack is an especially bad place to work async. And we want people to work async as much as possible. Forum posts will frequently include a link to a Slack discussion, b
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by mrkurt 4y ago
Tailscale is not a YC company.
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by mrkurt 4y ago
Deno probably would have raised $80M if they'd raised the same time Supabase did. Investors got quite a bit more tight fisted between January and April.
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by mrkurt 4y ago
I like TypeScript and would like to write backends in TypeScript. I'm coming around on Elixir. I never want to write Go that interacts with a database again. Rust seems complicated. I don't think I'm smart or committed enough
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by mrkurt 4y ago
They do, but that's not a bad thing. Sequoia invests in companies they think could be worth multiple billions. If Deno reaches 30% of the impact of Node, their company could be worth billions. In the meantime, we get a better open sour
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by mrkurt 4y ago
This is an open source JavaScript runtime with a hosted business model. Deno is great. Deno Deploy is a reasonable way for them to make money.
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by mrkurt 4y ago
You're either undervaluing common stock or vastly overvaluing preferred stock. Probably the latter? If you join with options for preferred stock (assuming anyone is going to do such a thing), you're probably getting a 1x liquidati
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Yes, fair. That makes complete sense.
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CloudFlare actually makes the case for running in dedicated processes on their own blog: https://blog.cloudflare.com/mitigating-spectre-and-other-sec... Running untrusted code in the same process gives that code a tremendou

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