Fly.io Blog

You should write an agent

They're like riding a bike: easy, and you don't get it until you try.

How we got to LiveView

I'm Chris McCord. I work at Fly.io and created Phoenix, an Elixir web framework. Phoenix provides features out-of-the-box that are difficult in other languages and frameworks. This is a post about how we created LiveView, our flagship feature.

VSCode’s SSH agent is bananas

Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.

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.

Phoenix.new – Remote AI Runtime for Phoenix

Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.

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

API Tokens: A Tedious Survey

Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.

Building a Distributed Turn-Based Game System in Elixir

Running Elixir on Fly.io let me easily create a globally distributed, privately networked, clustered, multi-player game server! Here's how.

MRSK vs. Fly.io

Comparison of MRSK and Fly.io

Rails on Docker

Rails 7.1 will include a Dockerfile to help ease production deployments

Elixir Livebook is a secret weapon for documentation

Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.

Accident Forgiveness

Charging for resources you didn't mean to buy is bad business.

Gossip Glomers: Fly.io Distributed Systems Challenges

Fly.io Distributed Systems Challenges

Elixir and Rust is a good mix

Make your Elixir projects even faster using Rust!

Fly Kubernetes

Introducing Fly Kubernetes: If you want K8s on Fly.io, we built something for you.

Pairing With GPT-4

GPT-4 won't build your application for you, but it can be a very helpful addition to your toolbox.

Macaroons Escalated Quickly

Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.

Phoenix Dev Blog – Streams

LiveView's new Streams feature is set to be a game changer and yet easy to use at the same time. Chris McCord writes this dev blog post shining a light onto this new feature.

Fly Machines: An API for Fast-Booting VMs

Announcing Fly Machines

Rails Cheat Sheet

A helpful list of resources for people who are just getting started out with Rails.

Corrosion

Corrosion is distributed service discovery based on Rust, SQLite, and CRDTs.

How to Version an API

News, tips, and tricks from the team at Fly

Did Semgrep Just Get a Lot More Interesting?

Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.

Tokenized Tokens

Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.

Elixir and Phoenix can do it all

Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.

Single File Elixir Scripts

Experiment and debug with Elixir Scripts!

LiveBeats: Building a social music app with Phoenix LiveView

Debut of LiveBeats social music app.

The JavaScript ecosystem is delightfully weird

Design and Implementation of Sprites

So that we may educate as well as horrify: the internals of our new Sprites execution platform.

A LiveView Is a Process

A Phoenix LiveView is a Process, let's discuss what that means!