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The Plan for Rails 8 Author Name Brad Gessler @bradgessler @bradgessler Image by Annie Ruygt Rails published an 8.0 milestone on Github that lays out the goals for the next Rails release, and it’s sprawling. It ships with a new background worker, cache backend, asset pipeline, framework for pushing notifications to mobile devices, and a load of development tools. One of Rails’ mantras is “compress

Introducing Fly Kubernetes Author Name Senyo Simpson @senyeezus @senyeezus Image by Annie Ruygt We’re Fly.io, and if you’ve been following us awhile you probably just did a double-take. We’re building a new public cloud that runs containerized applications with virtual machine isolation on our own hardware around the world. And we’ve been doing it without any K8s. Until now! We’ll own it: we’ve be

Rethinking Serverless with FLAME Author Name Chris McCord @chris_mccord @chris_mccord Imagine if you could auto scale simply by wrapping any existing app code in a function and have that block of code run in a temporary copy of your app. The pursuit of elastic, auto-scaling applications has taken us to silly places. Serverless/FaaS had a couple things going for it. Elastic Scale™ is hard. It’s eve

Turbo 8 in 8 minutes Author Name Brad Gessler @bradgessler @bradgessler Image by Annie Ruygt Turbo 8 simplifies the development of live-updating Rails applications. It offers a dramatic leap forward from previous versions by minimizing the need for manually coding turbo frames and turbo stream responses. This advancement simplifies both the creation and maintenance of Rails applications making you

Skip the API, Ship Your Database Author Name Ben Johnson @benbjohnson @benbjohnson Image by Annie Ruygt With Fly.io, you can get your app running globally in a matter of minutes, and with LiteFS, you can run SQLite alongside your app! Now we’re introducing LiteFS Cloud: managed backups and point-in-time restores for LiteFS. Try it out for yourself! My favorite part about building tools is discover

We’re Fly.io. We run apps for our users on hardware we host around the world. Building security for a platform like this is tricky, and that’s what the post is about. But you don’t have to read any of this to get an app running on here. See how to speedrun getting an app running on Fly.io here. We built some little security thingies. We’re open sourcing them, and hoping you like them as much as we

LiteFS Cloud: Distributed SQLite with Managed Backups Author Name Darla Magdalene Shockley Author Name Ben Johnson @benbjohnson @benbjohnson Image by Annie Ruygt With Fly.io, you can get your app running globally in a matter of minutes, and with LiteFS, you can run SQLite alongside your app! Now we’re introducing LiteFS Cloud: managed backups and point-in-time restores for LiteFS—whether your app

RubyKaigi 2023: Matsumoto Author Name Nathan Willson @nathanwillson @nathanwillson Image by Annie Ruygt The RubyKaigi conference was in Matsumoto this year, surrounded by beautiful mountains in Nagano Prefecture. It’s an annual conference in Japan that brings Rubyists from around the world to celebrate Ruby and the community. I ate a lot of local soba. Shout out to sanzokuyaki— a local fried chick

Welcome to Rails Cheat Sheet Author Name Brad Gessler @bradgessler @bradgessler Image by Annie Ruygt Rails has been around since early 2004. Back then, the choices of building web applications was either working with a bunch of spaghetti code that was SFTP'ed up to a server or work with an enterprise monstrosity like Enterprise Java Beans. Rails showed us that web development could be fun and sane

Elixir and Rust is a good mix Author Name Jason Stiebs @peregrine @peregrine Image by Annie Ruygt This post is about using Rust with Elixir and how easily it can be done! If you want to deploy your Phoenix LiveView app right now, then check out how to get started. You could be up and running in minutes. Problem We need to perform a CPU intensive or system level programming task and there are just

MRSK vs Fly.io Author Name Sam Ruby ruby.social/@samruby ruby.social/@samruby Image by Annie Ruygt MRSK was introduced last month and it truly is a game changer. From the announcement: It sits on top of basic Docker, and harvests all the benefits you get from isolated containers with a sliver of the complexity associated with most other solutions. Instead of sending the deployment pipeline off to

Rails on Docker Author Name Brad Gessler @bradgessler @bradgessler Image by Annie Ruygt Rails 7.1 is getting an official Dockerfile, which should make it easier to deploy Rails applications to production environments that support Docker. Think of it as a pre-configured Linux box that will work for most Rails applications. That means you’ll start seeing a Dockerfile in the project directory of a lo

How We Built Fly Postgres Author Name Chris Nicoll Author Name Shaun Davis @davissp14 @davissp14 Image by Annie Ruygt Like many public cloud platforms, Fly.io has a database offering. Where AWS has RDS, and Heroku has Heroku Postgres, Fly.io has Fly Postgres. You can spin up a Postgres database, or a whole cluster, with just a couple of commands. Sign up for Fly.io and launch a full-stack app in m

7 min Read Fly.io ❤️ Kamal I’ve been scouting out what it will take to update Agile Web Development with Rails 7 for Rails 8, and chapter 17 (Deployment and Production) will need be rewritten to focus on Kamal. This naturally lead me to spend a few hours deploying my Showcase Read more Read more By Julian Rubisch 6 min Read Execute Third Party Code in a Rails App Imagine inviting random strangers

Docs Index Get Started with LiteFS Toggle Get Started with LiteFS section LiteFS overview Speedrun: Adding LiteFS to your app Getting Started with LiteFS on Fly.io Getting Started with LiteFS in Docker How LiteFS Works FAQ LiteFS Cloud Toggle LiteFS Cloud section Using LiteFS Cloud for Backups Restoring from a LiteFS Cloud Backup Disaster Recovery from LiteFS Cloud Using LiteFS Toggle Using LiteFS

Introducing LiteFS Author Name Ben Johnson @benbjohnson @benbjohnson Image by Annie Ruygt Fly.io runs apps close to users by taking containers and upgrading them to full-fledged virtual machines running on our own hardware around the world. We’re also building an open-source distributed file system for SQLite called LiteFS which is pretty cool too. Give us a whirl and get up and running quickly. F

How the SQLite Virtual Machine Works Author Name Ben Johnson @benbjohnson @benbjohnson Image by Annie Ruygt Fly.io runs apps close to users around the world, by taking containers and upgrading them to full-fledged virtual machines running on our own hardware around the world. Sometimes those containers run SQLite and we make that easy too. Give us a whirl and get up and running quickly. SQL is a w

How SQLite Scales Read Concurrency Author Name Ben Johnson @benbjohnson @benbjohnson Image by Annie Ruygt Fly.io runs apps close to users around the world, by taking containers and upgrading them to full-fledged virtual machines running on our own hardware around the world. Sometimes those containers run SQLite and we make that easy too. Give us a whirl and get up and running quickly. If you scour

How SQLite helps you do ACID Author Name Ben Johnson @benbjohnson @benbjohnson Image by Annie Ruygt Fly.io runs apps close to users around the world, by taking containers and upgrading them to full-fledged virtual machines running on our own hardware around the world. Sometimes those containers run SQLite and we make that easy too. Give us a whirl and get up and running quickly. When database vend

SQLite Internals: Pages & B-trees Author Name Ben Johnson @benbjohnson @benbjohnson Image by Annie Ruygt Fly.io runs apps close to users around the world, by taking containers and upgrading them to full-fledged virtual machines running on our own hardware around the world. Sometimes those containers run SQLite and we make that easy too. Give us a whirl and get up and running quickly. Ok, I’ll admi

How to make Rust leak memory (also: how to make it stop) Author Name Amos Wenger Image by Annie Ruygt This is a post about fixing a memory leak in our Rust-based proxy, fly-proxy. That’s the code that gets your users’ requests to the nearest VM that can fulfill them, on one of our servers in one of 21 regions worldwide. Take it for a spin by deploying an app in mere minutes. We have a Rust-based p

I'm All-In on Server-Side SQLite Author Name Ben Johnson @benbjohnson @benbjohnson Image by Annie Ruygt I’m Ben Johnson. I wrote BoltDB, an embedded database that is the backend for systems like etcd. Now I work at Fly.io, on Litestream. Litestream is an open-source project that makes SQLite tenable for full-stack applications through the power of ✨replication✨. If you can set up a SQLite database

Free Postgres Databases Author Name Kurt Mackey @mrkurt @mrkurt Author Name Chris Nicoll Image by Annie Ruygt Postgres on Fly.io is now free for small projects. The hard part about free Postgres is storage, so this post is also about free storage. Read about it here, or try us out first. You can be up and running in just a few minutes. We like building side projects and also hate paying for hostin

How We Got to LiveView Author Name Chris McCord @chris_mccord @chris_mccord Image by Annie Ruygt I’m Chris McCord. I work at Fly.io and created Phoenix, an Elixir web framework. Phoenix provides features out-of-the-box that are difficult in other languages and frameworks. This is a post about how we created LiveView, our flagship feature. LiveView strips away layers of abstraction, because it solv

API Tokens: A Tedious Survey Author Name Thomas Ptacek @tqbf @tqbf Image by Annie Ruygt We’re Fly.io. This post isn’t about Fly.io, but you have to hear about us anyways, because my blog, my rules. Our users ship us Docker containers and we transmute them into Firecracker microvms, which we host on our own hardware around the world. With a working Dockerfile, getting up and running will take you l

Docker without Docker Author Name Thomas Ptacek @tqbf @tqbf Image by Annie Ruygt We’re Fly.io. We take container images and run them on our hardware around the world. It’s pretty neat, and you should check it out; with an already-working Docker container, you can be up and running on Fly in well under 10 minutes. Even though most of our users deliver software to us as Docker containers, we don’t u