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by davnicwil 1614 days ago
Really enjoying watching Fly develop. Not sure if I have read the strategy right, but my read is that they are going for an edge 'OS' which is compatible with the way software is already built for the centralised deployment model, where other players are going with a strategy of inventing a new 'OS' and saying, pretty much, 'all this edge goodness is available, but you have to rewrite your software to run on our OS first'.

I'm so glad to be seeing someone do this, because for a while it was looking like nobody would - and as long as nobody is doing it, nobody would have to.

Now with Fly increasing in popularity, you have to expect that others, Cloudflare in particular, must be seriously looking at integrating more 'centralised deployment' tools like postgres into their edge platform too (if, to be fair, they didn't already have this on their roadmap), providing more options and competition.