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Re:Rapid growth, lessons learned and improvements at Fly.io by mmcclure on Monday March 06, 2023 @02:35PM (#35046437)
That comment jumped out to me too, my recollection was that they've been pretty vocal about that not being something they wanted to solve themselves as a core competency. I'm not quite parsing if these two blurbs should still be taken together or if the second sentence is refuting the first.

> The second problem we have with Postgres was a poor choice on my part. We decided to ship “unmanaged Postgres” to buy ourselves time to wait for the right managed Postgres provider to show up.

> We’re going to solve managed Postgres. It’s going to take a while to get there, but it’s a core component of the infrastructure stack and we can’t afford to pretend otherwise.

+1 to Neon seeming like a good fit, but it's also very much a beta (alpha?) both as a product and company (at least from my impression). I'm not sure that's a bet they'd want to make right now given the context of this post.

Re:Rapid growth, lessons learned and improvements at Fly.io by nikita on Monday March 06, 2023 @04:09PM (#35047625)
(Neon CEO)

We are launching our paid tier March 15th and will be production ready shortly after. We are running 20K+ databases and measuring reliability and uptime.

Generally reliability is a function of architecture (we are solid there), good SRE practices, and a long tail of event you live through, fix, and make sure they never happen again. The bigger the fleet the faster the learning.

Re:Rapid growth, lessons learned and improvements at Fly.io by mmcclure on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @02:28AM (#35052580)
That's great, love to hear it! Really excited about what you all are working on.
Re:Rapid growth, lessons learned and improvements at Fly.io by jorangreef on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @04:29AM (#35053375)
Looking forward to it!