Annie Sexton
Appearances
The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Open source threaded team chat?! (Interview)
Fly gives you a lot of flexibility, like a lot of flexibility on multiple fronts. And on top of that, you get, so I've talked a lot about the networking and that's obviously one thing, but there's various data stores that we partner with that are really easy to use. Actually, one of my favorite partners is Tigris. I can't say enough good things about them.
The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Open source threaded team chat?! (Interview)
When it comes to object storage, I've never in my life thought I would have so many opinions about object storage, but I do now. Tigris is a partner of Fly and it's S3 compatible object storage that basically seems like it's a CDN, but is not. It's basically object storage that's globally distributed without needing to actually set up a CDN at all.
The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Open source threaded team chat?! (Interview)
It's like automatically distributed around the world. And it's also incredibly easy to use and set up, like creating a bucket is literally one command. So it's partners like that that I think are this sort of extra icing on top of Fly that really makes it sort of the platform that has everything that you need.
The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Open source threaded team chat?! (Interview)
Yeah. So Tigris is built on top of Fly's infrastructure, and that's what allows it to be globally distributed. I do have a video on this, but basically the way it works is whenever, like, let's say a user uploads an asset to a particular bucket. Well, that gets uploaded directly to the region closest to the user. Whereas with a CDN, there's sort of like a centralized place where
The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Open source threaded team chat?! (Interview)
assets need to get copied to. And then eventually they get sort of trickled out to all of the different global locations. Whereas with Tigris, the moment you upload something, it's available in that region instantly. And then it's eventually cached in all the other regions as well as it's requested. In fact, with Tigris, you don't even have to select which regions things are stored in.
The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Open source threaded team chat?! (Interview)
You just get these regions for free. And then on top of that, it is so much easier to work with. I feel like the way they manage
The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Open source threaded team chat?! (Interview)
permissions the way they handle bucket creation making things public or private is just so much simpler than other solutions um and the good news is that you don't actually need to change your code if you're already using s3 it's s3 compatible so like whatever sdk you're using is probably just fine and all you got to do is update the credentials so it's super easy