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Dov's Path to Fly.io Engineer
- Dov started contributing to Fly.io by building a Terraform provider as a community project before becoming a full-time employee.
- His passion to improve infrastructure and deployment experience drove him from freelance work to a platform engineer role at Fly.io.
Fly.io's Unique Deployment Model
- Fly.io turns Docker images into virtual machines running close to users without requiring container orchestration overhead.
- Deploying globally becomes as simple as selecting regions and hitting enter to replicate the application seamlessly worldwide.
VMs Instead of Containers
- Fly.io doesn't run containers but translates OCI container specs into bootable virtual machine disk images with kernel and OS components.
- This provides strong isolation and security benefits alongside fast startup through technologies like Firecracker.