Reliability: It’s not great

For django, they should really contribute to 2 scoops django cookie cutter program, so that you can get an out of the box django instance that can just deploy to Fly.io.

May be wrong, but they seem to be very focused on interesting stacks like Elixir and RoR while building on Go/Rust. The corollary being neglect of the bread/butter stacks with high market share, like Python and Java/JavaScript. Don't think I've seen a blog post discussing those three beyond a passing mention?

Not the end of the world, but mildly disappointing. At least they are all in with Postgres and Linux, a great foundation.

I thought the only thing their tech stack was all in on was docker images being rewritten to run on firecracker as a substrate.

is it not agnostic about things like Elixir etc, at the tech level, though they've got super nice documentation for those tools you mentioned?

You can use any Docker image.

What's necessary to change for them to run on Firecracker?

Their problem right now isn't adding more customers - they seem to have more than they can handle!

If I were them I'd focus as many resources as possible on making the stack rock-solid, and away from acquiring more customers or adding more capabilities.

In fact I'd try to down-scope some features if at all possible, like the example they give of disabling app deploys while they're doing platform updates.

We use fly.io at a small scale and it's worked really well for us, but the money is in customers at a larger scale who must have 100% reliability.

https://github.com/ehmatthes/django-simple-deploy will deploy to fly (or platform.sh) out of the box, should be pretty much the experience you're describing

Here's a post explaining how they do it https://fly.io/blog/docker-without-docker/

thank you!

Yeah, saw that before. I thought he was saying you have to change your Dockerfiles to use them with fly.io. Just misinterpreted that sentence.

I don't disagree with you, but they tweeted

> We’ll readily admit our docs still have a Django-shaped hole in them.

https://twitter.com/flydotio/status/1578039196618575874?t=nu...

I needed a cookie cutter for my side projects so I've created one for sqlite that I actively use and a similar one for postgres. Both are very basic, contributions welcome.

Sqlite https://github.com/tomwojcik/django-fly-sqlite-template

Psql https://github.com/tomwojcik/django-fly-postgres-template