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by bastawhiz 13 days ago
If your service shares state globally across all users (like a social network) not really. If individual customers are mostly centered around one geographic location and their data isn't shared with other customers, yes.
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Even social networks tend to shard their DBs geographically. It's obviously not 100% effective (I can always add a friend on the other side of the world), but it significantly improves the average case (the majority of my friends will have gone to school/university/worked in the same geographical locations I did)