Run Ordinary Rails Apps Globally (2021)

Re:Run Ordinary Rails Apps Globally (2021) by mattbee on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @08:38AM (#30085192)

If this global replicated architecture is now a nice, polished, improving hosting product - how come so many well-funded global brands don't appear to benefit from an architecture like it?

Like Airbnb taking many seconds to load many parts of their app from the UK, or business apps like Xero which respond tens of times slower than a local app from 30 years ago.

Surely these are the sorts of companies which should be on top of global hosting, now that a hosting firm can box and sell it?

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Re:Run Ordinary Rails Apps Globally (2021) by mrkurt on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @08:49AM (#30085307)

This is almost exactly Shopify's architecture. It's out of reach for 99.9% of devs.

But really the answer is that AWS doesn't solve this for people. And AWS is the default hosting choice for most tech companies.

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Re:Run Ordinary Rails Apps Globally (2021) by tpetry on Thursday January 27, 2022 @01:20AM (#30096880)

Do you have a reference for shopify working like this?

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