56: Fly-ing Elixir Close to Users with Kurt Mackey

We talk with Kurt Mackey, founder at Fly.io, about what makes the Fly platform unique and why hosting Elixir applications there makes a lot of sense. They started out looking to make a better CDN for developers and this pushed them to try deploying Full Stack applications closer to users, not just the static assets! We learn about the tech behind the networking, how databases can be moved closer to users, and how LiveView is even more awesome when it is close to users. Kurt also shares what he sees as the future for databases as the industry continues to move into globally distributed applications.
Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/56 (http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/56)
Elixir Community News
- https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/pull/11101 (https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/pull/11101) – Task.completed/1 function added
- https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases/tag/v1.12.2 (https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases/tag/v1.12.2) – Elixir 1.12.2 minor release
- https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenixliveview/pull/1511 (https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view/pull/1511) – LV Lifecycle Hooks
- https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenixliveview/pull/1515 (https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view/pull/1515) – Add onmount option to livesession
- https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenixliveview/pull/1513 (https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view/pull/1513) – New formfor/4
- https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/pull/4355 (https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/pull/4355) – Add mailer generator for swoosh
- https://github.com/akoutmos/prom_ex/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md (https://github.com/akoutmos/prom_ex/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md) – promex library has 1.3.0 release adding Absinthe GraphQL plugin and dashboard
- https://fly.io/blog/monitoring-your-fly-io-apps-with-prometheus/ (https://fly.io/blog/monitoring-your-fly-io-apps-with-prometheus/) – Using promex on an Elixir project
- https://github.com/wojtekmach/elixir-run (https://github.com/wojtekmach/elixir-run) – Wojtek Mach released a new project called "elixir-run"
- https://github.com/nurturenature/elixir_actions#elixir-actions-for-github (https://github.com/nurturenature/elixir_actions#elixir-actions-for-github) – Elixir Github Actions CI example repo
- https://twitter.com/evadne/status/1412083538988613636 (https://twitter.com/evadne/status/1412083538988613636) – Etso 0.1.6 was released adding "isnil" query support
Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir (https://twitter.com/ThinkingElixir) or email at [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])
Discussion Resources
- https://fly.io/ (https://fly.io/)
- https://fly.io/docs/introduction/ (https://fly.io/docs/introduction/)
- https://fly.io/blog/building-a-distributed-turn-based-game-system-in-elixir/ (https://fly.io/blog/building-a-distributed-turn-based-game-system-in-elixir/)
- https://www.compose.com/ (https://www.compose.com/)
- https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig (https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig) – Corey Quinn on Twitter
- https://nats.io/ (https://nats.io/)
- https://jamstack.org/ (https://jamstack.org/)
- https://liveview-counter.fly.dev/ (https://liveview-counter.fly.dev/)
- https://github.com/fly-apps/phoenix-liveview-cluster (https://github.com/fly-apps/phoenix-liveview-cluster)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anycast (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anycast)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BorderGatewayProtocol (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_Gateway_Protocol)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contentdeliverynetwork (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_delivery_network)
- https://www.wireguard.com/ (https://www.wireguard.com/)
- https://tailscale.com/ (https://tailscale.com/)
- https://fly.io/blog/globally-distributed-postgres/ (https://fly.io/blog/globally-distributed-postgres/)
- https://www.cockroachlabs.com/ (https://www.cockroachlabs.com/)
- https://www.yugabyte.com/ (https://www.yugabyte.com/)
- https://www.citusdata.com/ (https://www.citusdata.com/)
- https://fly.io/blog/ (https://fly.io/blog/)
- https://twitter.com/flydotio (https://twitter.com/flydotio)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JoeArmstrong(programmer) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Armstrong_(programmer))
Guest Information
- https://twitter.com/mrkurt (https://twitter.com/mrkurt) – on Twitter
- https://github.com/mrkurt (https://github.com/mrkurt) – on Github
- https://fly.io/blog/ (https://fly.io/blog/) – Blog
Find us online
- Message the show - @ThinkingElixir (https://twitter.com/ThinkingElixir)
- Email the show - [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])
- Mark Ericksen - @brainlid (https://twitter.com/brainlid)
- David Bernheisel - @bernheisel (https://twitter.com/bernheisel)
- Cade Ward - @cadebward (https://twitter.com/cadebward)

We talk with Kurt Mackey, founder at Fly.io, about what makes the Fly platform unique and why hosting Elixir applications there makes a lot of sense. They started out looking to make a better CDN for developers and this pushed them to try deploying Full Stack applications closer to users, not just the static assets! We learn about the tech behind the networking, how databases can be moved closer to users, and how LiveView is even more awesome when it is close to users. Kurt also shares what he sees as the future for databases as the industry continues to move into globally distributed applications.

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/56

Elixir Community News

https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/pull/11101 – Task.completed/1 function added
https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases/tag/v1.12.2 – Elixir 1.12.2 minor release
https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view/pull/1511 – LV Lifecycle Hooks
https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view/pull/1515 – Add on_mount option to live_session
https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view/pull/1513 – New form_for/4
https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/pull/4355 – Add mailer generator for swoosh
https://github.com/akoutmos/prom_ex/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md – prom_ex library has 1.3.0 release adding Absinthe GraphQL plugin and dashboard
https://fly.io/blog/monitoring-your-fly-io-apps-with-prometheus/ – Using prom_ex on an Elixir project
https://github.com/wojtekmach/elixir-run – Wojtek Mach released a new project called "elixir-run"
https://github.com/nurturenature/elixir_actions#elixir-actions-for-github – Elixir Github Actions CI example repo
https://twitter.com/evadne/status/1412083538988613636 – Etso 0.1.6 was released adding "is_nil" query support

Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at [email protected]

Discussion Resources

https://fly.io/
https://fly.io/docs/introduction/
https://fly.io/blog/building-a-distributed-turn-based-game-system-in-elixir/
https://www.compose.com/
https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig – Corey Quinn on Twitter
https://nats.io/
https://jamstack.org/
https://liveview-counter.fly.dev/
https://github.com/fly-apps/phoenix-liveview-cluster
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anycast
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_Gateway_Protocol
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_delivery_network
https://www.wireguard.com/
https://tailscale.com/
https://fly.io/blog/globally-distributed-postgres/
https://www.cockroachlabs.com/
https://www.yugabyte.com/
https://www.citusdata.com/
https://fly.io/blog/
https://twitter.com/flydotio
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Armstrong_(programmer)

Guest Information

https://twitter.com/mrkurt – on Twitter
https://github.com/mrkurt – on Github
https://fly.io/blog/ – Blog

Find us online

Message the show - @ThinkingElixir
Email the show - [email protected]
Mark Ericksen - @brainlid
David Bernheisel - @bernheisel
Cade Ward - @cadebward