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Postgres on Fly.io is now free for small projects. The hard part about free Postgres is storage, so this post is also about free storage. Read about it here, or try us out first. You can be up and running in just a few minutes.

Free Postgres Databases

React came with a reactive HTML-aware component model for building UIs and colocated markup directly in the app code. Phoenix borrowed a lot from React when we first shipped LiveView in 2018, but only recently have we gone all-in with an HTML- aware component system in Phoenix 1.7. The advantage of this approach is a natural composition of static HTML tags alongside dynamic components and logic.

A love letter to React

LiteFS works by interposing a very thin virtual file system between your app and your on-disk database file. The FUSE file system solves many of these usability issues by being a single point that all database calls go through. LiteFS also needs to run an API server to replicate data between nodes. It uses Hashicorp's Consul to determine the primary node in your cluster.

Introducing LiteFS

Fly.io offers insights into edge computing, serverless architecture, and global content delivery network (CDN), providing documentation, tutorials, and best practices for deploying and scaling applications at the network edge. By exploring Fly.io's curated content, developers can learn about Fly's edge computing platform, distributed application runtime, and HTTP/2 load balancing for building fast, secure, and scalable web applications. Whether you're optimizing latency for global users, offloading compute-intensive tasks, or deploying microservices, Fly.io offers resources to supercharge your application performance and reliability.

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