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

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

Sandboxing and Workload Isolation Author Name Thomas Ptacek @tqbf @tqbf Workload isolation makes it harder for a vulnerability in one service to compromise every other part of the platform. It has a long history going back to 1990s qmail, and we generally agree that it’s a good, useful thing. Despite a plethora of isolation options, in the time I spent consulting for technology companies I learned

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

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

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 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

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

Free Postgres Databases Author Name Kurt Mackey @mrkurt @mrkurt Author Name Chris Nicoll @beepcat @beepcat 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

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