Re:Run Ordinary Rails Apps Globally (2021)
by sealeck on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @06:25AM
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I think that a lot of people don't do global distribution by default, and thus miss out of many customers from countries that aren't close to one of their datacentres. But they don't realise this (how can they - they have no data on what might be) and thus think that they don't "need" global distribution because in their current world, they're fine.
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Re:Run Ordinary Rails Apps Globally (2021)
by welterde on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @07:04AM
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If the site doesn't make many requests in order to work (like for instance HN) then you can also use it just fine despite being very far away from their DC.
And by optimizing for few requests and small size, you also get the additional benefit that it will work nicer if the user has a bad internet connection!
Re:Run Ordinary Rails Apps Globally (2021)
by samwillis on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @06:30AM
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You are quite right, and Fly.io can be that "gateway drug" to taking advantage of it. I suspect that is also their exact business model too, attract customers when they are small and run in one region, then as they grow encourage global distribution extracting business from them.
My business doesn't "need" global distribution but it could defiantly be argued that it could "benefit from" being so.
Re:Run Ordinary Rails Apps Globally (2021)
by onphonenow on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @07:15AM
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It can also be harmed - GDPR is not easy to comply with / stay on top of as an example