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FWIW, managed providers can fully plug into fly just fine. Here's actually a profile of performance times [1] of Fly with various providers and configurations, along with a repo [2] to reproduce/create the same setup yourself.

1. https://webstack.dancroak.com/

2. https://github.com/croaky/webstack

*Disclaimer I work at one of those fully managed database providers.

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I would love it if Crunchy Bridge was available on Fly. Have you considered offering it alongside the other clouds you run on?

I could see a Crunchy Data managed version of Fly Postgres's doing super well. Combining the best aspects of both your experience managing HA Postgres and backup, with the distributed read replicas from Fly.

Why are the response times (api checks) so high?

Yeah those response times are in the realm of “why would I even consider that”. If I am trying to tune my db queries to have p95 latency of 1ms (for example) there’s no way I would choose an architecture that then threw that all out the window with ~100ms network latency. Hopefully I am misunderstanding those numbers somehow.

I saw this earlier and thoroughly didn't understand what is going on with that. I can't make any sense of why that would be so high.

Feels like a better test would be for the healthcheck to time the query RTT and report that back. Completely remove the web request from the equation.

Would be interesting to see the request-response round trip time between the Go service and the SQL database, for each combination.