We're more like Fargate than Lambda, but Fly apps scale and balance across regions. I wouldn't really call it "more edgy", it's just built specifically for running app servers close to users (vs emulating a traditional single region datacenter).
We actually started with a JS runtime like CloudFlare has, but it was wrong for our customers. They're better off just running Docker images.
We're more like Fargate than Lambda, but Fly apps scale and balance across regions. I wouldn't really call it "more edgy", it's just built specifically for running app servers close to users (vs emulating a traditional single region datacenter).
We actually started with a JS runtime like CloudFlare has, but it was wrong for our customers. They're better off just running Docker images.
There's a lot more in our HN launch thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22616857