- Integrationfly.io
How CodeCrafters Helps Devs Upskill Faster
CodeCrafters, a structured learning platform for developers, moved its code evaluation workloads from in-house Firecracker VMs to Fly.io to handle spiky traffic without over-provisioning. Using Fly.io…
- Sentimentfly.io
How MyMahi Moves Fast Enough to Keep up With Teenagers
MyMahi, a New Zealand-based education platform used in over 100 schools, migrated its infrastructure to Fly.io to handle unpredictable data syncs from large schools. The move reduced DevOps costs and …
- Launchfly.io
How Tigris Data Makes Object Storage Screaming Fast, Globally
Tigris Data introduced a new object storage solution built on FoundationDB, offering S3-compatible APIs with global buckets and real-time performance. Unlike traditional object stores, Tigris caches a…
- Launchfly.io
How Turso Made SQLite Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
Fly.io introduced Turso, a platform enabling SQLite use in modern production workloads by adding replication, backups, disaster recovery, and native vector search. Turso is built on Fly.io's infrastru…
- Partnershipfly.io
How Steel.dev Turns AI Agents Into True Browser Ninjas
Steel.dev, an AI-driven browser automation platform, adopted Fly.io's Machines API to replace Kubernetes and Firecracker VMs, enabling rapid, scalable deployment of cloud browsers for AI agents. The p…
- Sentimentfly.io
How Zapi Makes Building Internal Tools Less Painful
Zapi, a tool for turning product requirement documents into working prototypes, highlights Fly.io’s Fly Machines and fly-replay for instant stateful environments and simplified routing. The case study…
- Sentimentfly.io
How Hatchet Keeps Background Tasks from Ruining Your Day
Hatchet, an open-source service for high-throughput background tasks, highlights its use of Fly.io’s Machines infrastructure to avoid serverless limitations like rigid timeouts and dropped tasks. The …
- Partnershipfly.io
How Reflex Makes Web Development Suck Less
Reflex, an AI-driven full-stack app builder, partnered with Fly.io to power its Reflex framework using Fly Machines for sandbox environments. The integration leverages Fly.io’s predictable, Docker-bas…
- Partnershipfly.io
How Amplified.ai Keeps Innovation Out of the Shadows
Amplified, an AI-powered patent search platform, relies on Fly.io for scalable GPU infrastructure and Tigris Data for 7.5TB document storage to process 150M patents. Their bespoke LLM and vector embed…
- Contentfly.io
Cart is now in session
Fly.io published a Laravel-focused tutorial showing how to build a shopping cart using Laravel's session facade and a custom CartService class. The guide covers adding/removing items, Livewire integra…
- 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…
- Featurecommunity.fly.io
Docker without Docker, now with containers
Fly.io's community forum announces 'Docker without Docker,' enabling container deployment without requiring Docker. This simplifies the deployment process for users.
- 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…
- Featurefly.io
Multi-tenant apps with single-tenant SQLite databases in global Tigris buckets
Fly.io introduced a method to store single-tenant SQLite databases in Tigris, a globally distributed object store, and run them on single-tenant Fly Machines. This allows per-tenant deployments with a…
- Contentfly.io
Building a Remix app locally with Docker
Fly.io published a technical guide demonstrating how to set up a local Remix application development environment using Docker and Docker Compose. The tutorial covers configuring a Dockerfile, deployin…
- Featurefly.io
FLAME for JavaScript: Rethinking Serverless
Fly.io introduced a JavaScript implementation of the FLAME pattern, enabling developers to auto-scale tasks by wrapping code in a function that runs on temporary app instances (Fly Machines). This app…
- Featurefly.io
Ciabatta with Garlic & Basil
Fly.io released updated JavaScript demos to support Bun 1.0, providing parallel examples for Node.js and Bun with side-by-side comparisons. The demos include a stateful web server with visitor counter…
- Contentfly.io
Vanilla with Candy Sprinkles
Fly.io published a detailed tutorial series demonstrating how to build a stateful web server (visitor counter app) using vanilla JavaScript frameworks and tools, with step-by-step guides for deploying…
- fly.io
Fly.io ❤️ Bun
Fly.io announced native Bun runtime support ahead of Bun 1.0's September 7th release, enabling deployment via flyctl and Dockerfile. The integration leverages shared Node.js compatibility tools, with …
- Integrationfly.io
Run Paperclip on a Sprite
Sprites announced a step-by-step guide to deploy Paperclip, an open-source AI agent orchestration platform, as a service on Sprites. The integration leverages Sprites' hardware-isolated Linux environm…
- Featurefly.io
Put a (smol) Brain in Your Sprite
Fly.io demonstrated running Microsoft’s BitNet 2B model locally on their Sprite platform, achieving 50 tokens/sec on CPU with 1.58-bit quantization. The setup leverages Sprite’s isolated hardware, sha…
- Contentfly.io
Context Engineering Is Just Writing Things Down
Fly.io’s Sprites blog argues that context engineering—curated project documentation, skills, and hooks—matters more for AI agent performance than model capability. It introduces CLAUDE.md, Skills, and…
- Featurefly.io
Agent Swarms on Sprites
Fly.io’s Sprites now supports full machine isolation per agent in swarms, eliminating shared-state conflicts seen in other setups. Features include per-agent checkpoints for rollback, granular network…
- Featurefly.io
Closing the Loop: The Missing Ingredient in Agentic Development
Fly.io’s Sprites now enable fully autonomous agent-driven development by providing preinstalled test, observability, and debugging tools, eliminating manual permission prompts and feedback loops. Agen…
- Featurefly.io
I Build Everything In Sprites Now
The author now builds everything in Fly.io’s Sprites, citing frustration with local dev conflicts and environment drift. Sprites provide hardware-isolated Linux environments with persistent state, ins…
- Featurefly.io
Run Any Code Fearlessly
Fly.io launched Sprites, a hardware-isolated sandboxing solution for running untrusted code, addressing kernel exploits and network egress risks. Sprites provide deny-all network policies by default, …
- Featurefly.io
Make Computers Make Computers
Fly.io introduced the ability for Sprites (their compute units) to create and control other Sprites, enabling centralized authentication, isolated CI environments, per-PR preview environments, agent d…
- Featurefly.io
Slack Bots on Sprites: OAuth is Easy Now
Fly.io’s Sprites now simplifies Slack bot development by eliminating the need for public URLs and OAuth servers. Developers can create a Sprite with persistent filesystem storage, register it as a ser…
- Integrationfly.io
Run Moltbot (Clawdbot) in a Sprite
Fly.io introduced a new method to run Moltbot, an open-source AI assistant, on its Sprite infrastructure—a stateful Linux sandbox with automatic sleep/wake behavior. The guide provides detailed steps …
- Launchfly.io
What if S3 could be a fast, globally synced, Key Value Database? That's Tigris
Fly.io introduced Tigris, an S3-compatible storage system that caches and syncs objects under 128KB globally, enabling a fast key-value database. The service leverages Fly.io’s VM infrastructure and s…
- Featurefly.io
Making Phoenix LiveView Sing!
Fly.io published a guide showing how to integrate sound effects into Phoenix LiveView apps using the Howler.js library, enabling both client-side and server-triggered audio feedback. The post demonstr…
- Communityfly.io
AI Toolbox Turnout: Alex Ezell
Alex Ezell, a long-time web developer, describes using Fly.io’s Sprites and AI agents (Claude Code, Codex) to automate tasks like link checking and building side projects like Deadbuttons and Precider…
- Launchfly.io
Better Rails Forms with Superform
Fly.io introduced Superform, a new Rails form helper library built on Phlex that permits its own strong parameters, eliminating the need to manually add parameters in controllers. Forms can be rendere…
- Integrationfly.io
Monitoring Fly Machine Resource Usage with Laravel Pulse
Fly.io published a guide showing how to set up Laravel Pulse’s servers card to monitor resource usage of Fly Machines running Laravel apps. The integration involves installing Laravel Pulse, configuri…
- Contentfly.io
Reusable Input Components without Livewire, with Livewire
A Fly.io Laravel Bytes tutorial demonstrates building a reusable TextInput Blade component with a fluent interface, integrating Livewire reactivity via wire:model, and enabling validation and dynamic …
- Featurefly.io
Autoscaled Queue Workers
Fly.io added an autoscaling system for Laravel queue workers using its Micro VMs (Fly Machines). A Laravel console command runs via CRON to monitor queue depth, spinning up or down worker VMs dynamica…
- Featurefly.io
Streaming updates with Livewire and Fly Machines
Fly.io introduced a method to offload long-running Laravel requests (e.g., Livewire wire:stream processing) to dedicated Fly Machines, called 'Tasker-Machines,' which spin up in subsecond time. This p…
- Featurefly.io
Making the CLI and Browser Talk
Fly.io published a Laravel tutorial demonstrating a new CLI-browser authentication flow where the CLI initiates a session, redirects users to the browser for registration, and polls for completion to …
- Featurefly.io
Checkboxes, and Streamed updates with Livewire
Fly.io published a tutorial demonstrating Livewire v3’s new wire:stream directive, enabling real-time progressive UI updates during bulk processing in Laravel apps. The feature eliminates the need for…
- Contentfly.io
Livewire v3: Modelable, Events, and Data Sharing
Fly.io’s Laravel Bytes blog published a technical tutorial demonstrating how to use Livewire’s Modelable feature and client-side events to share data between dynamically instantiated drop-down compone…
- Contentfly.io
Re-usable, Dependent Dropdowns in Livewire v3
A Fly.io Laravel Bytes tutorial demonstrates how to create dependent dropdown filters using Livewire’s component nesting and Alpine.js. It introduces a parent 'filter-section' component to manage data…
- Technicalfly.io
Never Miss a Webhook
Fly.io explains how to design Laravel applications for high uptime and spikey traffic when ingesting webhooks, advocating for simple ingest code, separate codebases, and Octane to bypass PHP-FPM limit…
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