September 03, 2021

Iterating to globally distributed apps and databases (Founders Talk #80)

1 hour 45 minutes

Today Adam is joined by Kurt Mackey, co-founder and CEO of Fly.io — a platform for running full stack apps and databases close to users. This conversation with Kurt talks through his journey as a developer and entrepreneur, fundraising, getting into Y Combinator (twice), and how they’ve iterated on the Fly platform since 2017 to get to where they are right now.

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Kurt Mackey – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

Introducing the Fly global application platform

fly.io/blog

Globally distributed Postgres

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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