Day Two Cloud 105: How The Fly.io Cloud Brings Apps Closer To Users

Most conversations about cloud hosting in North America focus on the Big Three: AWS, Azure, and GCP. Today’s Day Two Cloud talks to Fly.io, a company with a different approach to putting workloads into the public cloud. Our guest is founder Kurt Mackey. Fly.io is a platform to run full-stack and backend apps all over the world. Somewhat PaaS-oriented, the goal of Fly.io is to allow developers to self-service complicated infrastructure without an ops team. The company also tries to remove abstractions without creating a lot of infrastructure messiness. We get into super-nerdy details about what Fly.io has built and how the company differentiates itself, including making multi-region a default setting to get applications as close to the user as possible. This is not a sponsored show. We discuss: * How Fly.io works * Why the company uses tiny VMs * Challenges of private networking and tenant isolation * Fly.io’s infrastructure and multi-region model * How IPv6 supports Fly.io’s designs * Running workloads on Fly.io * More Sponsor: CBT Nuggets CBT Nuggets is IT training for IT professionals and anyone looking to build IT skills. If you want to make fully operational your networking, security, cloud, automation, or DevOps battle station visit cbtnuggets.com/cloud. Show Links: Fly.io Blog @mrkurt – Kurt Mackey on Twitter Transcript: [00:00:00.240] – Ethan Sponsor CBT Nuggets is IT training for IT professionals and anyone looking to build IT skills, if you want to make fully operational your networking cloud security automation or DevOps Battle Station, visit CBT nuggets dotcom cloud. That’s CBT nuggets. Dotcom cloud. [00:00:25.120] – Ethan Welcome to Day Two Cloud and Ned, we have a spectacular show today, and I feel like maybe we say that too often, but this one, this was good. We are going to interview Kurt Mackey, the founder of Fly.io, which, Ned, we talk a lot about AWS, Azure and GCP as a platform for hosting a variety of things, IaaS, PaaS related. Fly.io is a different approach. And we get into some super nerdy details with Kurt about what they built and how it works. [00:00:57.970] – Ned Yeah, the biggest thing for me is what they’ve built is something that is multi region by default. That is their approach. That is how they go with everything. So you think of all these organizations that typically are running in a single region, maybe two, no, they do multi region by default. They run the hardware, they run the software, they own the whole stack. And for me, that was the main thing and the big differentiator for them over other services. [00:01:26.220] – Ethan Now, if you’re listening to this, you might be wondering, is this a sponsored show? It was not a sponsored show. We just discovered this product through, I think, Hacker News and started digging around to found that it was super interesting, reached out to Kurt and he was happy to come on and talk about Fly.io. I really think you’re going to enjoy this interview with Kurt Mackey, founder at Fly. Kurt, welcome to Day Two Cloud. [00:01:51.060] – Ethan Hi, it’s good good to have you here. And we got to start at the beginning, man, which is really straightforward. It’s just give the audience in a few sentences what is Fly.io. [00:02:02.670] – Kurt Fly.io is a platform for basically running full stack and back end apps all over the ...