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I'm all-in on server-side SQLite
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We were wrong about GPUs
Do my tears surprise you? Strong CEOs also cry.
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Free Postgres databases for small projects
Announcing free Postgres storage on Fly.io.
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Docker without Docker
Our users deliver software to us as Docker containers, but we don’t use Docker to run them. We transmogrify container images into Firecracker micro-VMs. Here's how.
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LiteFS
We are building a distributed file system for your SQLite databases. Kinda weird, huh?
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Fly.io has GPUs now
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
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JIT WireGuard
Our fancy WireGuard setup was accumulating stale peers. Here's what we did about it.
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Our User-Mode WireGuard Year
For better or worse, flyctl isn't boring. Here's why.
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Litestream: Revamped
Bringing in what we learned from LiteFS
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Litestream v0.5.0
Same Litestream goodness but better, faster, stronger
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The 5-Hour CDN
You can build a functional CDN on an 8-year-old laptop while you're sitting at a coffee shop. Here's what a CDN you put together in five hours might look like.
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Rethinking serverless with FLAME
Imagine if you could auto scale simply by wrapping any existing app code in a function and have that block of code run in a temporary copy of your app
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Litestream VFS
Query your SQLite database any time, anywhere
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SSH and User-Mode IP WireGuard
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
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MRSK vs. Fly.io
Comparison of MRSK and Fly.io
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Rails on Docker
Rails 7.1 will include a Dockerfile to help ease production deployments
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Globally Distributed Postgres
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
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Skip the API, ship your database
The best code is the code unwritten. Avoid building a complex API layer by sharing your database between services.
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Carving the scheduler out of our orchestrator
A deep dive into container scheduling and Flyd, our new orchestrator.
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Fly Kubernetes
Introducing Fly Kubernetes: If you want K8s on Fly.io, we built something for you.
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Run Ordinary Rails Apps Globally (2021)
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
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How We Built Fly Postgres
The database. The app. The legend.
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Last Mile Redis
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
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Fly Machines: An API for Fast-Booting VMs
Announcing Fly Machines
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LiteFS Cloud: Distributed SQLite with Managed Backups
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
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How We Deliver Global SSL with Let's Encrypt
News, tips, and tricks from the team at Fly
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Fly’s Prometheus Metrics
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
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Introducing Fly Edge Apps
News, tips, and tricks from the team at Fly
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A Foolish Consistency: Consul at Fly.io
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
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WAL Mode in LiteFS
LiteFS v0.3.0 now supports SQLite's write-ahead log journal mode.