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Fly.io: The reclaimer of Heroku's magic

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528 points sealeck | 1 comments | 15 May 22 19:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.213s | source
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pharmakom ◴[15 May 22 21:57 UTC] No.31391545[source]▶
Can someone explain what fly.io actually is for someone with an AWS background?
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1. jsmeaton ◴[16 May 22 00:56 UTC] No.31392729[source]▶
Having a go at writing the elevator pitch myself, since I think the others I've read have been overly technical.

It's a platform as a service. It'll take your docker application (usually a web application) and run it on the internet. It'll also allow you to run it in many locations around the world transparently (using the same IP address / anycast) so that users closer to those locations will get better/lower latency.

It's a CDN for your application.

(There's more to it than this, but as far as elevator pitches go, sufficient?)