Re:Fly.io makes infrastructure easy for developers
by mrkurt on Friday September 23, 2022 @03:33PM
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I also agree about the importance of fully managed databases!
We shipped "automated" Postgres because we couldn't get any fully managed DB providers to pay attention to us when we were small. I expect we'll have an option running on Fly infrastructure in the next six months.
Our Redis is fully managed, so you can get an idea of how it might play out: https://fly.io/docs/reference/redis/
Our app has two components, a backend on Heroku and distributed frontend on Fly. The backend relies on a managed database, and I have not had to touch it in 6 years. Heroku does a great job providing confidence that the managed database will Just Work. The current Fly Postgres offering doesn't provide this confidence.