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Re:Fly.io: The reclaimer of Heroku's magic by ignoramous on Monday May 16, 2022 @01:28AM (#31393892)
Fly did have a built-in redis cache (albeit multi-tenant / shared) and for the life of me I can't figure out why they'd deprecate it (though, it still works): https://community.fly.io/t/debugging-a-failing-image-without... and https://community.fly.io/t/please-bring-redis-back/1563

If anything, I'd prefer they moved their PaaS more towards serverless and managed offerings than towards IaaS.

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Re:Fly.io: The reclaimer of Heroku's magic by beninsydney on Monday May 16, 2022 @01:47AM (#31393965)
On their forums they say they envision some other company handling Postgres too. Personally I would prefer they handle the databases, redis etc because that way the services you need can be provisioned right alongside your app servers otherwise it undermines the value of having edge servers near your users. Heroku could get away with 3rd parties being responsible for the database software because using AWS it was easy for other companies to be in the same region or zone.

https://community.fly.io/t/can-we-get-an-update-on-managed-d...

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Re:Fly.io: The reclaimer of Heroku's magic by ignoramous on Monday May 16, 2022 @01:58AM (#31394009)
Same.

My money is on Supabase building for Fly as a target / default IaaS, and that's as much close to managed services we are going to get, given Fly's insistence that they're not really good at (or want to) building (and maintaining) managed services.

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