[kasey_junk]

The locality features are huge. Being able to do database operations near where your users are is a big win for latency in global environments.

Pairing that with edge compute like fly.io is a killer combination. That you can use most of your normal Postgres libraries with it make it an easy transition.

[lokiju]

I see, thanks. The uses for locality seem a little niche though no? Are the benefits that much greater that it would be noticeable to users?

[kasey_junk]

You can see hundreds of ms of latency per request based purely on distance.

Tokyo - NYC is ~175 ms and that’s a good route. Compound that by all the requests you app does.