It's absolutely an issue when multiple applications or users write to the same data from different locations, or when users move around. If the application onl

It's absolutely an issue when multiple applications or users write to the same data from different locations, or when users move around. If the application only lives in one place you are paying for the latency to reach the application from the remote client in the first place, even if the latency from the app to the database is "fast". FaunaDB gives you local-latency reads and minimum global write latency from everywhere.