Fly.io isn't a "Gartner Magic Quadrant" kind of company. We use terms like "FaaS" and "PaaS" and "serverless", but mostly to dunk on them. It's just not how we think about things. But the rest of the world absolutely does think this way, and I wan...
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Read moreWe've had a lot of changelogs about our Phoenix/LiveView-based web UI in recent weeks. It's pretty rad; we've been vocal about being CLI-first, but we love a first-class dashboard. Our dashboard has sprouted a lot of new capabilities, and at this ...
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Read moreWe have a Rust-based proxy. It was leaking memory. We fixed it, and we'll talk about that, but to be really thorough, we'll look at how loading a web page works. Starting with hardware interrupts. The downside of Thomas writing job postings is th...
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Read moreHere's our latest changelog. This week we're putting the in-browser UI updates a little closer to all the other ones, to see if they'll play nicely together. [Feature] Our WireGuard peers sync a lot faster with the kernel's wg state, by adding ...
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Read moreHere's our latest changelog. Looking back over the week, our forum community has been quite a driver of (logged) change. When you're done here, head over there to be a part of it! [Feature] Created an example Node.js app to demonstrate how to e...
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Read moreWork leading up to the Fly Machines launch involved a multitude of changes by many of the cogs in this corporate machine, but that's not to say the other production lines have been idle. For one thing, our web UI has been transforming before our e...
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Read moreFly Machines are VMs with a fast REST API that can boot instances in about 300ms. Our proxy can boot Fly Machines for you, and you can shut them down when they're idle. Which means you can cost-effectively create VMs and keep them standing by to h...
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Read moreWe want Fly.io to be the best place on the Internet to run Ruby on Rails apps, and especially Hotwire. If you're a Rails developer that's enthusiastic about Hotwire, we need your help. Here's Fly.io's not-so-secret evil plan. We make it easy to ru...
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Read more[Feature] Provisioned new servers in syd, iad, and dfw which were very full. Added capacity should mean customers should no longer get provisioning issues when trying to deploy to these regions. [Feature] The account deactivation page now ask...
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Read moreThe conventional wisdom of full-stack applications is the n-tier architecture, which is now so common that it's easy to forget it even has a name. It's what you're doing when you run an "application server" like Rails, Django, or Remix alongside a...
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Read moreFeatures and fixes are flying like dodgeballs in a school gym, and the Fly.io Changelog Enforcer could probably have done a better job patrolling—but let's have a look at our haul of updates since our first Logbook post. There's a fair amount of ...
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Read moreHey, everyone. Last time we talked a bit about what accessibility is, why it's important, and how you can incorporate it into your process. Today, using the time-travel superpowers of Git, I'll take you along as I start making LiveBeats more acces...
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Read moreHere's a changelog covering our most recent activity (i.e. since we started compiling updates, a bit under two weeks ago): [Feature] Added extra capacity in IAD. [Feature] Backup regions (by far our most confusing misfeature) are now disabled...
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