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Fly.io Postgres cluster down for 3 days, no word from them about it

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797 points burnerbob | 1 comments | 20 Jul 23 23:42 UTC | HN request time: 0.299s | source
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marban ◴[21 Jul 23 03:12 UTC] No.36809579[source]▶
They're less humble in communicating other things https://fly.io/blog/we-raised-a-bunch-of-money/
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windexh8er ◴[21 Jul 23 04:06 UTC] No.36809870[source]▶
I tried Fly once, but, at the end of the day it seemed way too expensive for what it was and the completeness of the vision. And then I started to see the complaints in random corners of the Internet.

I don't read their blog regularly but I always thought they had great content. But not after reading this.

The irony: "What people actually wanted to talk about, though? Databases."

...but apparently not when they are the problem behind said databases?

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1. cschmatzler ◴[21 Jul 23 04:44 UTC] No.36810091[source]▶
Their blog is great, because they invested heavily in perception from the outside. Coming from the Elixir world, them hiring Chris McCord (creator of Phoenix) and sponsoring a ton of open source projects slapping on their logo, seemed great at first, but when it comes to actually deploying stuff to production and day 2 operations (monitoring is so much more difficult than it should be, and troubleshooting tools are lacking) they are way behind. I can imagine them getting lots of hobby projects on board due to free tier and day 1 impression, but that won’t win over enterprises.