[tiffanyh]

What’s magically?

I was under the impression that fly.io today (though they are working on it) doesn’t do anything unique to make hosting elixir/Phoenix app easier.

See this comment by the fly.io team.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27704852

[tptacek]

I still wouldn't say we do any magic Elixir stuff; rather, our platform just happens to have a combination of features (particularly edge delivery for stuff like LiveView and zero-config private networking for clustering) that make Elixir apps sing.

But we've got full-time people working on Elixir now, too; we'll see where that goes. We've still got Elixir limerence here. :)

[pm]

Hey Thomas, weren’t you running Latacora last time I checked?

[wolf550e]

See:

https://twitter.com/tqbf/status/1232843986529849344

https://twitter.com/tqbf/status/1276214060036632576

https://twitter.com/tqbf/status/1288891834131939329

[tptacek]

I haven't been at Latacora for a while now.

[mcintyre1994]

They're not doing anything special to make Elixir specifically better yet, but their private networking is already amazing for it - you can cluster across arbitrary regions completely trivially. It's a really good fit for Elixir clustering as-is even without anything specially built for it. I have no idea how you'd do multi-region clustering in AWS but I'm certain it'd be a lot harder.