Top updates from 2026
August 2026
- Featurefly.io
Custom Laravel Pulse Cards
Fly.io published a guide showing how to build custom Laravel Pulse cards to display requests per Fly Machine. The solution uses Laravel Pulse’s recording and aggregation system, Fly.io’s metrics API, …
- Featurefly.io
Execute Third Party Code in a Rails App
Fly.io’s Machines API allows Rails apps to boot ephemeral VMs in 2 seconds to safely execute third-party code, mitigating security risks like malicious exploits and data leaks. Attractor, a code quali…
- Featurefly.io
Fly.io ❤️ Kamal
The article explores Kamal, an open-source deployment tool inspired by Fly.io, enabling Rails applications to run on low-cost VPS providers like Hetzner. It highlights Kamal’s similarities to Fly.io i…
- Launchfly.io
The Plan for Rails 8
Rails 8 drops several production dependencies like Redis by introducing Solid Cache and Solid Queue (database-backed) and a new ActionCable adapter for WebSocket broadcasting. It also replaces Sprocke…
- Integrationfly.io
Rails on Docker without Docker
Fly.io now offers the dockerfile-rails gem to automatically generate Dockerfiles for Rails apps, eliminating the need for developers to manually configure Docker or Linux systems. This integration lev…
- Featurefly.io
8 Turbo 8 "Gotchas"
Fly.io’s Ruby Dispatch highlights seven key behavioral changes in Turbo 8’s final release, including new scroll preservation rules, autofocus-induced jumps during DOM morphs, and meta tag placement qu…
- Featurefly.io
Turbo 8 in 8 minutes
Turbo 8 introduces a major simplification for Rails live-updating applications by reducing manual coding for turbo frames and streams. It replaces page replacement with DOM morphing, preserves scroll …
- Featurefly.io
SQLite Persistence Canary
Fly.io proposes a new Rails feature to test SQLite persistence between deploys by intentionally crashing the first production deployment if data isn't written to a persistent disk. This forces develop…
- Contentfly.io
Audience of One
Fly.io published a technical blog post showing how to build a Rails app that streams Fly.io logs to a browser in real time using Action Cable, Stimulus, and Tailwind CSS. The tutorial provides reusabl…
- Technicalfly.io
Accommodating Safari Users
Fly.io highlights a technical challenge in Rails apps using import maps, which fails on Safari versions below 14.1 due to non-evergreen browser support. The post proposes an esbuild-based workaround t…
- Contentfly.io
Using AI to Boost Accessibility and SEO
Fly.io published a technical guide on using AI (OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude) to automate context-aware alt text and captions for images, improving accessibility and SEO. The solution lever…
- Featurefly.io
My Favorite new LiveView Feature
Fly.io’s blog post highlights JS.toggle_class/1, a new feature in Phoenix LiveView v0.20.4 (released February 2024) that simplifies toggling CSS classes without external tools like Alpine.js. The feat…
- Launchfly.io
World Page Speed Test – planet-wide elastic scale with FLAME
Fly.io introduced FLAME, a programming model that replaces AWS Lambda or Cloudflare Workers by wrapping existing app code in a function to run in temporary app copies, enabling elastic scaling without…
- Featurefly.io
How Phoenix LiveView Form Auto-Recovery works
Fly.io details how Phoenix LiveView's form auto-recovery works during server restarts or deployments by syncing browser DOM state with LiveView assigns via phx-change events. The post highlights a com…
- Integrationfly.io
Easy at-home AI with Bumblebee and Fly GPUs
Fly.io introduced a new integration allowing Elixir developers to deploy Bumblebee-based open-source AI models on Fly.io’s GPU-enabled VMs. The setup uses a lightweight harness app on Fly.io to host t…
- Featurefly.io
Phoenix Dev Blog – Server logs in the browser console
Fly.io introduced a feature in Phoenix Live Reload that streams server logs directly to the browser console, eliminating the need to switch between terminal and browser during debugging. The implement…
- Featurefly.io
Clustering Elixir From Laptop to Cloud
Fly.io introduced a guide and automated bash script to cluster an Elixir application running locally with one deployed on their platform, enabling seamless distributed computing. This leverages Fly.io…
- Featurefly.io
Launching a Remix app with Postgres using Prisma
Fly.io highlights the ease of launching Remix applications with Fly Postgres and Prisma, emphasizing a two-step deployment process via flyctl. The workflow automates database provisioning, schema migr…
- Contentfly.io
Using WebSockets with Next.js on Fly.io
Fly.io published a technical guide showing how to implement WebSockets in Next.js without third-party services, using a custom server and Fly.io’s infrastructure. The tutorial walks through building a…
- Launchfly.io
Build a file sharing service without making your brain hurt
Fly.io introduced Soar, a lightweight file-sharing service designed to reduce latency by leveraging Tigris' global object storage and Fly.io's compute. Built with SvelteKit, Soar handles uploads and r…
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