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Don't know if anyone noticed, but Ben Johnson recently became head of product over there. I'm fortunate to have called Ben a friend for a long ass time now and I gotta say, I'm extremely bullish on fly as a result of this. Ben is not just a developers developer, he's genius level intelligence. https://github.com/benbjohnson

(We fumbled the ball hard at DigitalOcean ngl, fingers crossed Ben can build what I dreamed of building one day!)

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What/why do you think DO fumbled? Fly looks like what DO could have been, and they had a 10 year head start.

I'm curious as well. Pretty happy with DO overall; but it is relatively vanilla as far as a hosting product goes.

I’ll be bullish on fly when the awful outages stop. They had a hardware outage in the LHR region for a month, it was probably longer but I moved to a different provider so I haven’t bothered to check.

https://fly.io/infra-log/

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