All the next-gen distributed SQL databases are neat. We are definitely not trying to compete with them; that's not at all where we're heading (though we'd be happy to work with them to bring their databases to our platform).
This is just a neat hack you can do with totally standard Postgres. It's a thing other people do outside of Fly; we just like how easy you can make it if you can program both the CDN and the applications.
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All the next-gen distributed SQL databases are neat. We are definitely not trying to compete with them; that's not at all where we're heading (though we'd be happy to work with them to bring their databases to our platform).
This is just a neat hack you can do with totally standard Postgres. It's a thing other people do outside of Fly; we just like how easy you can make it if you can program both the CDN and the applications.