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We're a full stack platform, most frequently compared to Heroku --- a place you'd run a Rails, Elixir, or Django app.

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yieldcrv3y ago· 1 in thread

can you elaborate on a comparison to existing offerings?

Heroku has been handicapped for nearly half a decade, there are a lot of people that already know of alternatives and have changed their system design to accommodate the alternatives. How does Fly.io fit in with Vercel, or Netlify? As opposed to people keeping their Heroku apps on life support

tptacekOP3y ago

Vercel (for instance) does pure serverless --- you configure "functions" that are invoked by their orchestrator --- that are all Javascript, or compiled to JS/WASM.

Fly.io takes Docker containers, turns them into VMs, and lets you decide where and when to have them running.

One isn't better than the other; they're just totally different models for hosting applications. The Fly.io model is much closer to what Heroku did, just modernized (with Docker, edge deployments, the `fly-proxy`, etc).

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