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Run Paperclip on a Sprite

Fly.io introduced multiple new features for its Sprite product, including running quantized language models (2.4B parameters at 1.58 bits) on Sprites, enabling

Building Agents that Don't Break Themselves

Fly.io describes a new approach to running AI agents by separating the agent’s durable home (long-lived process) from the execution environment (disposable Spri

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Django Views as Serverless Functions on Fly Machines

Fly.io introduced a method to run Django views as serverless functions using Fly Machines, allowing specific views to offload resource-intensive tasks like PDF

Staging environments on the Fly with GitHub actions

A guide demonstrates automating staging environments for Django apps on Fly.io using GitHub Actions. Each pull request triggers a temporary staging app with a d

Serverless Functions in Django With Fly Machines

Fly.io introduced a method to run serverless functions in Django using custom commands executed on Fly Machines, leveraging the platform's 'scale to zero' featu

New goodies in Django 5.0

Django 5.0, now in alpha/beta, introduces three major ORM and form features: generated fields for database-computed values, database-computed default values via

Smooth Database Changes in Blue-Green Deployments

Fly.io highlights Django’s SeparateDatabaseAndState() migration operation to enable zero-downtime blue-green deployments. The technique separates model state ch

Celery Async Tasks on Fly Machines

Fly.io introduced support for running Celery workers on Fly Machines to offload async tasks from Django applications, improving scalability and performance. The

Organizing Database Queries: Managers vs. QuerySets

Fly.io’s blog features a technical deep-dive by Mariusz Felisiak on organizing Django database queries using Managers and QuerySets. The post explains how to st

QuerySets are Lazy

Fly.io published a technical deep-dive on Django’s lazy QuerySets, explaining how deferred execution reduces unnecessary database queries. The post highlights m

ASGI deployment options for Django

A Django Fellow details ASGI server options (Daphne, Hypercorn, Uvicorn, Granian) for deploying Django apps, emphasizing performance benefits and Fly.io’s ease