Digital Ocean Functions compared to Fly.io

Digital Ocean Functions
Versus
Fly.io

Features

Edge Features of Digital Ocean Functions compared to Fly.io
Digital Ocean FunctionsFeaturesFly.io
Functions / Serverless
Go, Javascript, Php, PythonFunctions supported languages
Worker.js Environment
Docker support
Docker private registry
Kubernetes support
Managed Kubernetes
New York, USA and Frankfurt, GermanyAvailability regions
Default Memory (MB)
Maximum Memory (MB)
Execution Time (ms)No limit
Maximum Execution Time (ms)No limit
Request Payload (MB)No limit
Response Payload (MB)No limit
Unsupported Paid Feature Supported Unknown

Descriptions


Digital Ocean Functions


Digital Ocean has earned users trust over the many years of service. Founded in 2011, and already traded publically on the New York Stock Exchange since 2021. Digital Ocean has a great blog with many useful articles, which is why they are so well known in the developer community.

Once the underdog, and now David turned Goliath, Digital Ocean offers it all and has truly grown into a major market player when it comes to cloud infrastructure on a global scale.

Digital Ocean Functions offers seamless database integration and offers support for a couple of unique features like unit testing for your Functions. Interestingly Digital Ocean is one of the first Functions providers who are verbal on which version of prograamming language they support. Some programming languages like Python are backward incompatible. DO’s Functions supports Python 3.

Noteworthy customers of Digital Ocean Functions are currently unknown.


Fly.io


Fly is an opensource runtime for edge apps, Fly offers a paid hosted version of their product as well. This provider will focus on the paid hosted version. Fly.io is one of the few companies and products that has a full range of tools alongside their actual product, which makes them an ideal candidate for curious developers and new companies to experiment.

Everything they do is docker based, and their networking abstraction is top notch, it’s clear Fly will play a major role in turning the space into a more user-friendly one. Fly’s ambitious mission to make application distribution as ubiquitous as CDNs sets the bar for any contenter willing to compete.