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Re:From Go on EC2 to Fly.io: +fun, −$9/mo by achempion on Monday February 27, 2023 @03:08AM (#34954161)
isn't the whole selling point of fly is edge servers which supposed to reduce latency
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Re:From Go on EC2 to Fly.io: +fun, −$9/mo by re-thc on Monday February 27, 2023 @07:06AM (#34955469)
Sure, but what's edge? The world is big. Can't have servers everywhere (ok, maybe Cloudflare is close). It's possible due to routing decisions that you get sent to a "different edge" at different times.
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Re:From Go on EC2 to Fly.io: +fun, −$9/mo by marcinzm on Monday February 27, 2023 @07:50AM (#34955793)
So what's the point then? 250ms is enough to literally send traffic to the other side of the world. So why bother with edges if you can just have a single server where most of your customers are and get the same latencies?
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