A CDN makes a lot of sense to me, having static assets that get cached close to users is a brilliant way to speed up requests. As the article points out, this i

A CDN makes a lot of sense to me, having static assets that get cached close to users is a brilliant way to speed up requests. As the article points out, this is a very hard problem to solve for anything that touches a database or is not static/cached content. This is also why I don't believe in the idea that Fly.io pitches. Additionally you have the legal things to take care of with GDPR, etc. so a local database is probably the way to go for most projects.