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Fly.ioCompany

Platform that runs apps close to users on its own hardware.

6 things

NomadSoftware

recommended

About Nomad itself, we have nothing but nice things to say.

Fly.io on using HashiCorp Nomad before building its own scheduler

fly.io ↗·2023-02-01Wrong?

SQLiteSoftware

recommended

I think that for many applications – production applications, with large numbers of users and high availability requirements – SQLite has a better place, in the center of the stack, as the core of your data and persistence layer.

Ben Johnson on why he is all-in on server-side SQLite

fly.io ↗·2022-05-09Wrong?

RustSoftware

uses

Corrosion is a Rust program that propagates a SQLite database with a gossip protocol.

Fly.io builds Corrosion in Rust

fly.io ↗·2025-10-22Wrong?

FirecrackerSoftware

uses

So, instead, we transmogrify container images into Firecracker micro-VMs.

How Fly.io runs Docker images as Firecracker micro-VMs

fly.io ↗·2021-04-08Wrong?

ConsulSoftware

mixed

Consul is fantastic software.

Fly.io on moving routing state from Consul to its own Corrosion

fly.io ↗·2025-10-22Wrong?

KubernetesSoftware

mixed

They're not wrong: Kubernetes is fractally complicated.

Fly.io on Kubernetes versus its own orchestrator

fly.io ↗·2023-02-01Wrong?

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