2026-06-02DataMesh Consulting

2 June — platform migrated to Fly.io + Supabase: faster, leaner, single-region London

We moved the entire platform — public site, API, admin dashboard, scraping agent, queue and object storage — off our previous cloud onto Fly.io (London) with a Supabase Postgres database (also London). Same features, lower latency, ~50% lower run cost, and a simpler stack we can reason about end to end.

What changed

Today we completed a full infrastructure migration. Every moving part of datameshconsulting.co.uk now runs on Fly.io in London, backed by a Supabase PostgreSQL database (with the pgvector extension for AI matching) in the same region.

Nothing about the product changed — the public tender pages, the API the iOS app talks to, and the admin monitoring dashboard all behave exactly as before. This was purely a foundation move.

Why

Lower latency, single region. App and database now sit in the same

London region, so requests don't hop between zones.

Simpler stack. One platform for the web app, API, dashboard, the

Playwright scraping agent, the job queue and object storage — instead of a load balancer + VPC connector + managed services spread across several products.

~50% lower running cost at our current footing, with no feature loss.
IPv4-clean, managed TLS. Hostnames resolve cleanly and certificates

renew automatically.

How it went

We migrated the full corpus — ~56,000 tenders and ~46,000 AI embeddings — into the new database, verified vector search and authentication end to end, cut the public domain over with a short, reversible DNS change, and only then decommissioned the old environment. The web stayed up throughout; the API was validated before any traffic moved to it.

The migration tooling (deploy configs, a one-shot database-migration script and a staged teardown runbook) is checked into the repo, so the whole stack is now reproducible from source.

What's next

With the foundation simpler and cheaper, the focus returns to coverage — more Step-0 extractors and richer per-notice detail — and resuming the continuous scraping cadence.