Re:Run Ordinary Rails Apps Globally (2021)
by jgalt212 on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @09:10AM
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Why do you need all these regions? Is there any real money to be made outside of G7 that will be greatly decreased due to increased latency?
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Re:Run Ordinary Rails Apps Globally (2021)
by Lio on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @10:34AM
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That's a good question but not one you could answer easily without proper research into your chosen market.
If I was to speculate though I think you'd possibly find that you have long tail of potential customers spread outside of the G7 countries.
That's leaving out that there are a lot of very wealthy non-G7 countries.
Re:Run Ordinary Rails Apps Globally (2021)
by atonse on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @11:01AM
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To me the real key here is making multi-datacenter instances easy, whether those are multiple datacenters in the same country or 37 countries.
But even to stick to your question, the G7 spans probably a dozen time zones. Even if you stuck there, you'd still have a pain with a multi-region app and see benefits.