What is @tptacek’s relation with fly.io, and how did he change it?

tptacek is a security researcher and principal at fly.io [0]. And as an outsider looking in, seems to have been the eng behind some of their defining features [1]:

- udp support

- container2vm overhaul

- private networks aka 6pn

- some key flyctl (cli) commands like flyctl ssh, flyctl proxy

- metrics

- litefs

- perhaps, the imminent overhaul of the orchestration layer (?)

- the upcoming authz layer

[0] https://archive.is/Zwzlh

[1] https://community.fly.io/u/thomas/activity/topics | https://fly.io/blog/author/thomas/

> seems to have been the eng behind some of their defining features

> - litefs

That glory goes to https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=benbjohnson

GAH NO.

No? No. No!

You won't change my mind with 3 No's. A fourth however...

I had literally nothing to do with Fly.io's switch from Javascript to Firecracker. Happened months and months before I joined.

I don't want to come off as downplaying others engs at Fly (esp those from Compose.io) [0], but I wanted to point out how there's a marked difference between the period from when you joined them and years preceding that. A catalyst?

Of course, I claim no inside knowledge, so I may very well be mistaken (:

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9937023