Teaching the beetle to fly

Inspiration

Running applications in edge functions allows bringing compute closer to where it is used.

What it does

Deploys a single-node tigerbeetle cluster to fly.io.

How we built it

Set up configs to deploy a tigerbeetle node to fly.

Challenges we ran into

• The initial idea was to try run tigerbeetle and connect using the tigerbeetle client from cloudflare workers. This idea was thrown out because the tigerbeetle node client can't run in a cloudflare worker.
• A lot of time was wasted searching through and figuring out how fly apps are configured.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

It works.

What we learned

Don't start a hackathon on technologies you haven't used before (fly).

What's next for Teaching the beetle to fly

Implement a deployment of multiple nodes.

Built With

• fly
• tigerbeetle