Fly.io Machines
Medium — good to knowCloud & Infra
ELI5 — The Vibe Check
Fly Machines are tiny VMs that start in under a second and stop automatically when idle. Unlike serverless, they're real machines with persistent local disk. Unlike traditional VMs, you only pay when they're running. SQLite on a Fly Machine is the hipster backend stack.
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