[wg0]

fly.io is a solution but I don't know what the problem is. I can think of it like more dynamic CDN that can have more compute capacity (deploy whatever backed by SQLite/Postgres) to serve customers right way far more instantly.

Most applications and bigger chunk of them, are transactional and enterprise software is all about consistency and accuracy.

Nevertheless, I think its a great engineering fiat in and of itself anyway and hence gets discussed often probably could be the explanation.

[rkangel]

<disclaimer: haven't actually used Fly.io>

The usecase I had for my startup (a few years ago, before fly.io) was "I have an Elixir/Phoenix application - stuff working in the background plus web frontend". I would like to host it with as little thinking about individual servers, load balancers etc. I went with GAE at the time and it was fine.

Fly.io seems like a much more streamlined version of the same thing, with the addition of "global load balancing" stuff on top, if I got to the point of caring about international customers.

[ceejayoz]

I mean, that's a cool aspect useful to some, but I spent a day getting a Laravel app running on there, all in one region, and that's fine; I'm looking for a place to move my hobby apps off Heroku right now.