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Re:Rapid growth, lessons learned and improvements at Fly.io by aeyes on Monday March 06, 2023 @04:07PM (#35047601)
If I was in their shoes I'd probably aim for a "serverless" Postgres experience where you get a connection string and you know nothing else.

I think RDS, Crunchy, Aiven and others aren't quite there yet.

Re:Rapid growth, lessons learned and improvements at Fly.io by chime on Monday March 06, 2023 @05:41PM (#35048815)
They kind of offer that with their Redis (via Upstash). But for our use-case, we needed it to be managed PG and Redis. Going out of the LAN introduces too much latency.
Re:Rapid growth, lessons learned and improvements at Fly.io by chronark on Monday March 06, 2023 @05:44PM (#35048855)
Upstash Redis for Fly runs on Fly infrastructure and we observe latencies in the low single digit milliseconds.
Re:Rapid growth, lessons learned and improvements at Fly.io by aeyes on Monday March 06, 2023 @06:28PM (#35049347)
Maybe that is what Fly had in mind: That some company like Upstash would bring "managed" serverless Postgres to their platform.

Unless somebody natively implements clustering in Postgres I don't see that happening anytime soon, all existing tools require way too many moving parts.

I don't know why they'd even want Postgres for the type of service they are offering, KV or maybe SQLite seem like a better fit.