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by antihero 1943 days ago
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> Do we really believe that every one of our users is going to have a device capable of digesting 100 kB of JSON and rendering a complicated HTML table faster than a server-side app could on even a mid-grade server?

Yes. This really isn't hard. Pretty much any smartphone can do this with blissful ease. And it scales horizontally because your server can just worry about getting stuff from the database and handing it out.

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Exactly. Our app renders highly detailed 3D anatomy on the canvas. The largest model is a 1mb json file with 57mb(!!!) Of assets. We've never had a problem with mobile devices, they're shockingly capable.
What countries are your users in?
San Francisco isn't a country.