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href on July 21, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Fly.io Postgres cluster down for 3 days, no word f...

Fly works on a new and interesting platform paradigm by writing a lot of their software stack from scratch.

Unfortunately, such an approach is unlikely to produce the same stability you might be used to from other places.

wg0 on July 21, 2023 [–]

I think their proxy could have been written from scratch. Some management, billing, API etc too but under the hood, it's all standard open source stuff like kvm, firecracker and such?

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