fly.io has a fantastic engineering blog. Has anyone used them as a customer (enterprise or otherwise) and have any thoughts?
Hopefully I'll get to keep working on projects that can make use of it because it feels like a polished 2021 version of Heroku era dev experience to me. Also, full disclosure, Kurt tried to get me to use it in YC W20 - but I didn't listen really until over a year later.
I moved my authoritative DNS name servers over to Fly a few months ago. After some initial teething issues with Fly's UDP support (which were quickly resolved) it's been smooth sailing.
The Fly UX via the flyctl command-line app is excellent, very Heroku-like. Only downside is it makes me mad when I have to fight the horrendous AWS tooling in my day job.
The folks who actually run the network for them are super clueful and basically the best in the industry.
I was under the impression that fly.io today (though they are working on it) doesn’t do anything unique to make hosting elixir/Phoenix app easier.
See this comment by the fly.io team.
But we've got full-time people working on Elixir now, too; we'll see where that goes. We've still got Elixir limerence here. :)
Tinkering has been great but the addon style pricing scares the jeebs out of me (my wallet), I just assume I can't afford it for now and spin up a DO droplet. The droplet is probably more expensive for my use case but call it ADHD tax haha, at least it's capped