Having the database on the same server as the application significantly improves responsiveness of applications. Many of these cloud applications choose fragme

Having the database on the same server as the application significantly improves responsiveness of applications. Many of these cloud applications choose fragmentary architectures with data sprinkled across many discreet servers that are milliseconds or tens of milliseconds away from each other, resulting in significant delays compared to doing these blocking operations against a local database. Cloud native isn't always the right choice, sometimes CRUD apps should have a local database just for the responsiveness benefits.