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srousseytoday at 12:12 AM1 replyview on HN

Most people don’t need multi-region read architecture for that matter. SaaS app devs at 5 person companies really want to do “Facebook” scale problems.


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ketzotoday at 1:38 AM

I think this is kinda reductive. If you’ve got users all over the world, then global DB replicas are a sizable performance improvement, whether you’ve got 1 engineer or 1,000.

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