[julianbuse]

I think some things need to be built out some more, like their postgres and adding more storage after creation, but in general it's really enjoyable to use. The pricing seems fair, and their blog is intersting and fun to read.

[tpetry]

Completely agree. Their offering for running containers is great, but nobody wants to maintain a database. They should add DBaaS on their architecture with automatic backups etc.

[jamesmcintyre]

I totally agree with this! This would really add so much value to fly.io. And if they don't want to allocate resources to this right now I wonder if they could work with DBaaS providers like Planet Scale or FaunaDB where they'd wireguard their nearest instances into the fly.io network, add cli integrations/automations that'd link to their respective dashboards, etc.

I plan to use fly.io + planetscale and I'm hoping to still get low latency between those two services but it's no where near the low latency cloudflare can achieve with their new edge redis/db offerings (or the fly.io db at edge strategies) but after looking into fly.io's db strategies I really feel hesitant to take on that level of devops/additional-engineering when something like planetscale provides so much value out of the box.

Hope the fly.io team has something in the works either way! (And I'd love if they chime in with any input here in terms of performance between fly.io and existing DBaaS providers that are regionally replicated by default.)