Comment by nshm
3 years ago
Seems related to energy prices in Europe. They try to diversify. Feels like a lot of German companies will move to US soon.
3 years ago
Seems related to energy prices in Europe. They try to diversify. Feels like a lot of German companies will move to US soon.
And german customers will just endure the added latency? Seems more like opening the company to new markets.
~100 ms isn't that bad. Doubt it matters at all for most web apps. I've even played FPS games on US East servers a lot to escape eurotoxicity.
Yeah, with your standard web-app making 50+ calls to fetch JSON from your backend. This will play out nicely.
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If data centers have to temporarily shut down due electricity shortage, people won't have a choice but endure the latency.