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What is a Fly.io "Machine"?
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What is a Fly.io "Machine"?
What is Fly Volumes used for?
Why might a latency-sensitive real-time application (e.g. a multiplayer game backend or a chat server) specifically benefit from Fly.io's model over a traditional single-region host?
What is "scale to zero" on Fly.io, and what is the trade-off?
What is `fly launch` typically used for?
What does `fly deploy` do?
What is the significance of Fly.io's support for running apps as plain Docker containers, as opposed to requiring a proprietary build format?
What is Fly Postgres (or the general pattern of running a database "cluster" on Fly.io)?
What is a key operational trade-off of running your own Postgres cluster on Fly.io (Fly Postgres, as regular Machines + Volumes) versus using a fully managed third-party database provider?
What is `fly ssh console` used for?
How does Fly.io's deployment approach (per-region Machines with a global Anycast network) differ from a typical single-region PaaS with a CDN in front of it?