[simonw]

My favourite kind of technology is technology that either takes something that was impossible and makes it possible, or that takes something that was too hard to do and reduces the difficulty to the point that you chose to do it when previously you would have chosen not to.

Fly.io fits that latter category perfectly. Global distribution was generally Too Hard to consider for my projects. Now it isn't.

[sitkack]

Right, and with fly.io it is easier to move our chunky, chocked full of latency code closer to the user than remove the internal latency. It is kind of an Amdahl's Law of planet scale serving. I get 100ms for free and I don't have to touch my code.