[mrkurt]

We aren't going to support Heroku buildpacks. We are working to make more frameworks easy to launch with minimal configurations. Which means – hiring people to work specifically on those frameworks + docs + builds.

We did bake nixpacks into our CLI recently, they seem better for our particular environment than buildpacks. Railway.app did a great job with these: https://nixpacks.com/docs/getting-started

We're working on managed databases, but we're not doing them like Heroku did. We just launched a preview of managed Redis with Upstash: https://fly.io/docs/reference/redis/

This seems like the future of managed databases on a platform like ours. There are companies that build very good managed database services. We're getting to the size where these people will work with us. Getting well managed DBs onto the platform is basically what I'm spending all my time on these days.

Incidentally, we're a lot cheaper than Heroku because we run our own infrastructure.

[samwillis]

I’m sure you already have something in the pipeline for fully managed Postgres on Fly (I Really want something Heroku Postgres like, but on Fly). If not, have you reached out to Crunchy Data? They seem to have a solid product.

If you happen to have a service beta testing anything I would be interested in joining it.

[maxioatic]

Do you have plans for Rust (and specifically web frameworks like actix-web)? I see Rust on your main site under "Use the Tech You Love" but there's no dedicated docs.

[mrkurt]

Yep! If all goes well, we'll have people working on Rust "last mile" UX sometime in 2023. We all use Rust, we just so happen to write Dockerfiles when we do.

[maxioatic]

That's awesome! That's how I've used it so far and it works great, no complaints.

ps. are those people already at fly? shameless plug - would love to work on things like that.