A service that says 'here is an alternative to our service'? Right on their own website? Even though cron backups are basically 'competition' to litestream?
That's it. I'm giving fly.io a try next hobby app I start.
I'm so impressed with their business decisions right now, I was afraid for litestream but then I read how the creator is just hired to work on it full time. What a splendid development!
> A service that says 'here is an alternative to our service'?
I actually see this quite a bit. I think the reason for it is that it's a good way to show complexity or moving parts that can break in a process, where the marketing service is just a drop in and start. We can see the SQLite backup process here's and it's not too bad, but we can also see there are a few things that can go wrong that I'm sure litestream takes care of and would allow us to avoid any issues.
For example, backing up the DB onto the local disk before copying it could fail due to lack of disk space, and them we have to deal with the notification and fix for that. I'm sure litestream is a 10 minute setup that handles a lot of intricacies like that.
Don't give us that much credit! Litestream is a FOSS project. Fly.io isn't competitive about it. We just bought it because its existence, like, in the universe makes Fly.io more valuable, and we wanted to make sure Ben could keep working on it. We actually already have offerings that compete with it (Fly.io Postgres). :)
(Ben might feel competitive about Litestream though; it's his baby. So maybe give him some credit.)
That's it. I'm giving fly.io a try next hobby app I start.
I'm so impressed with their business decisions right now, I was afraid for litestream but then I read how the creator is just hired to work on it full time. What a splendid development!