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I'm surprised they haven't pushed ranges to datacenters located near the last access. You could maintain strong consistency while having fast local reads, once
by skunkworker 5y ago
I'm surprised they haven't pushed ranges to datacenters located near the last access.
You could maintain strong consistency while having fast local reads, once you have entered a building in a country it pulls you into the local range. So you're only slow when switching.
- elzbardico 5y agoDNS was down, it wouldn’t make a difference if you can’t find the local servers
- skunkworker 5y agoThe parent comment above wasn't about DNS, it was about using a centralized authorization mechanism where each check needed to travel from the EU to the United States in order to approve/deny a badge check.
- elzbardico 5y agoAnd even a decentralized system would be affected by a dns failure, unless you kept a copy of the database on the premises themselves