Flight Control

News, tips, and tricks from the team at Fly

Docker without Docker

We’re Fly.io. We take container images and run them on our hardware around the world. It’s pretty neat, and you...

The term "CDN" ("content delivery network") conjures Google-scale companies managing huge racks of hardware, wrangling...

Here’s a thing you’d probably want to do with an application hosted on a provider like Fly.io: pop a shell on it...

We're starting to think that Elixir might be the Flyest ❤️ programming language.Fly is a hosting platform for applications...

If you’ve been keeping up with us at Fly, you may be picking up on a bit of a narrative with us. Fly launched, in...

At Fly.io, we run a Rust-based load-balancer which handles almost all of our traffic. It stands on the shoulders...

This is a post about the most dangerous vulnerability most web applications face, one step that we took at Fly to...

Private networking between Fly Apps, WireGuard VPNs, updates to scaling, and backend improvements. This is what...

TL:DR; Launch, Turboku, Custom Domains, Scaling, One-Click Apps, Persistent Storage, Private Networking and Wireguard...