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Re:Corrosion by tptacek on Monday October 27, 2025 @06:05PM (#45726891)
Again: it's the premise of the platform. If you're saying "you picked a hard problem to work on", I guess I agree.

We cannot in fact assign our customers apps to 0.3% of our proxies! When you deploy an app in Chicago on Fly.io, it has to work from a Sydney edge. I mean, that's part of the DX; there are deeper reasons why it would have to work that way (due to BGP4), but we don't even get there before becoming a different platform.

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Re:Corrosion by __turbobrew__ on Monday October 27, 2025 @07:42PM (#45727681)
I think the impedance mismatch here is I am assuming we are talking about a hyperscaler cloud where it would be reasonable to have say 1024 proxies per region. Each app would be assigned to 4/1024 proxies in each region.

I have no idea how big of a compute footprint fly.io is, and maybe due to that the design I am suggesting makes no sense for you.

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Re:Corrosion by tptacek on Monday October 27, 2025 @07:43PM (#45727691)
The design you are suggesting makes no sense for us. That's OK! It's an interesting conversation. But no, you can't fix the problem we're trying to solve with shuffle shard.
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