On: Redbean Tiddlywiki Saver

[blooalien]

Is it actually faster / easier to ask that question here and wait for an answer from some random person, or to simply click the link and read the first few sentences on the site to answer your own question almost immediately?

[indigodaddy → blooalien]

I’m sure tptacek has some good summarizing paragraph or couple of sentences somewhere on some HN comment (to succinctly describe fly.imo)

[mbreese → blooalien]

I don’t know. For most other sites, I’d agree with you. But with fly.io, it might actually be better to ask here.

[serf → blooalien]

devil's advocate :

ok. I went to fly.io.

here's what it says.

"Deploy App Servers Close to Your Users

Run your full stack apps (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. "

Now, what does that mean?

[fastball → serf]

It means they're a PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service), but instead of hosting your webapp on one VPS in a Frankfurt datacenter, they replicate your webapp (and databases!) all over the world so that latency is as low as possible for your end users and there is not one SPoF (Single Point of Failure).

[indigodaddy → fastball]

So they sense if your docker thingy has a db (could be any flavor of db?), and they figure out db replication across all the “edge nodes/firecracker thingies” thru deploy for your app?