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0 pointsnicoburns4mo ago0 comments

> They took all of the great things about Heroku but also dramatically improved and added new capabilities

I also love Fly, but they were missing easy managed databases (which always seemed like the main reason to use Heroku to me). And now they have them they're very expensive (even compared to Heroku). Which is a shame because their compute is very cheap.

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tptacek4mo ago

If there was one thing we would all decide differently here at Fly.io, like if you gave us a time machine, is how we did databases. Someday Kurt and I will write the post about how those decisions came to pass and how they played out.

We're doing Managed Postgres now (MPG), which is what we should have done to begin with, but it took us for-ev-er to get here.

brightball4mo ago

For what it's worth, I've been very happy using Crunchydata PostgreSQL with Fly.

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