Whats the use case for edge computing like Fly.io. I have yet to figure it out the use case where a edge provider is necessary. That is, having a database on the edge.
Having customers in places around the world. If you site is hosted in North Virginia, and you have customers in Australia, they are going to really suffer from the speed of light.
Definitely. I guess where my ignorance comes in, from an engineering perspective is the way fly.io thinks about edge databases more difficult to architect than a more traditional route creating a subdomain for a region and just replicating your entire infrastructure in a new <insert cloud provider> region?
I guess you can setup the same kind of structure inside of fly.io but I remember some of their writeups have been talking about deployment and pushing the DB to the edge and then having eventual consistency across?
Common enough to have a couple customers in the EU or apac who consistently complain that your site is glacial and it turns out to be pretty bad for them...
Lots of us (well, me at least) use fly because it's a bundled set of aws best practices that I could configure in aws if I wanted to, but I'd waste another week of my life. alb + various vpcs + autoscaling group + fargate + ecs + their super shitty vpn service to vpn to a console + rds + elasticache or... just type "fly deploy" and go from zero to live in 20 minutes.
That said, fly's deploys are flaky. I hope they get it fixed because the rest of the service is pretty good.
The first part is good to hear. And the last part is the only reason I have not consistently used them. As an aside, I have started to use chatgpt heavily for aws questions and walkthroughs. Have been using ECS heavily and this has been super helpful for me to get through what I consider the hardbits, non-obvious permissions and configurations that aws that does tell you about but is buried in the documentation for a json like configuration object.
You could have your realtime competitive FPS game like Call of Duty host the data and compute necessary to run a match as close to the median location of all the players involved as possible to reduce latency. You could make the same case for something like Zoom or a collaborative editing tool.