> Are or problems with distributed data and databases solved? What do you need it for? I'm not being facetious, I'd really rather like to know. What I see is t

> Are or problems with distributed data and databases solved? What do you need it for? I'm not being facetious, I'd really rather like to know. What I see is that this sort of thing is only needed when you are planning to have the next facebook/reddit/etc type of business. I write line of business software for different SMEs, and I have not yet found a need for anything more than a beefy server/VPS. Even companies with 100k employees each using the same piece of software does not need anything "distributed", if you're even a little careful with read-only replicas, some caching of state, etc. You want to geolocate nearer to some users? For the reddit/facebook type of business, sure, good idea. For the majority of software, why would you? That webapp functions only slightly degraded when used from the other side of the world.