Comment by nlh
7 days ago
This is super cool and congrats!
Some questions - I understand all of these concepts but so far everything seems to be aimed at people way more immersed in this world than I, so pardon any dumb queries:
I have a small website I run. Everything is currently hosted on Fly.io (sjc) and I’m using Postgres as my main db. I’m about to add a whole bunch of features related to analytics and was dreading having to spend a week learning Clickhouse, so was just going to use Postgres until things get too big and slow to be useful.
Is Hydra aimed at folks like me? I see you guys are also hosted with Fly which is great but in the Virginia region. Am I out of luck unless I move my app to VA? Am I basically giving up my own Postgres instance and porting everything to Hydra?
Thanks for clarifying - your site kinda mostly covers this stuff but not entirely crisply so I’m a bit puzzled.
[Joe, Hydra cofounder] Hey, thanks for the kudos! Sounds like a nice fit and that's coincidentally good timing! We started with the Virginia region, but we can focus on SJC next. With 35 regions to cover, we're prioritizing based on user requests - so thanks for mentioning it.
Ideally, you can easily switch over to Hydra. Or Hydra can work as a fast, external analytics database too. It's Postgres-native so no changes are needed to use it in a traditional architecture if you wanted to.
Feel free to DM me on X (@JoeSciarrino) or email founders@ so we can coordinate on the SJC region.