My Thoughts About Fly.io (So Far)

• fly_postgres_elixir

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  Library for working with local read-replica postgres databases and performing writes through RPC calls to other nodes in the primary Fly.io region.

  

  https://github.com/superfly/fly_postgres_elixir

  It does this by sending writes to the primary region over RPC (via distributed elixir). The write is performed on a primary instance adjacent to the DB, then the result, and the postgres log-sequence-number, is sent back to the remote node. When the library gets a result of the RPC write, it blocks locally until its local read replica matches an LSN >= write LSN, then the result is returned to the caller

  This gives us read-your-own-writes for the end-user, and the calling code remains unchanged for standard code paths. This doesn't solve all classes of race conditions – for example you may broadcast a message over Phoenix.PubSub that causes a read on the remote node for data that isn't yet replicated, but typically you'd avoid an N query problem from pubsub in general by populating the data in the message on the publisher beforehand.

  There's no completely avoiding the fact you have a distributed system where the speed of light matters, but it's Fly's (and Phoenix's) goal to push those concerns back as far as possible. For read heavy apps, or apps that use caching layers for reads, developers already face these kinds of problems. If you think of your read-replicas as cache with a convenient SQL interface, you can avoid most foot guns.

  I'm happy to answer other questions as it relates to Phoenix, Fly or what Phoenix + Fly enables from my perspective.

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