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> may be geographically distributed such that a user on the other side of the world may have a severely degraded experience. Okay, am I crazy or can you not re
by hypeatei 2y ago
> may be geographically distributed such that a user on the other side of the world may have a severely degraded experience.
Okay, am I crazy or can you not really solve this without going full on multi-region setup of everything? Maybe your web server is closer to them but database requests are still going back to the "main" region which will have latency.
- sdenton4 2y agoPersonally I'm digging a hole through the center of the earth to send data via pulsing laser to the far side. But other people can choose to waste their money on multi region relocation, sure.
- fulafel 2y agoSome serverless DB services claim to offer transparent geo replication (eg AWS DynamoDB, and MS Cosmos which known for being expensive though). But also most apps don't need low latency.