Comment by sanswork

6 days ago

Basically every large multinational corporation will have a bunch of systems that are used globally. Most advertising companies work on global traffic patterns.

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citrin_ru  6 days ago

A large multinational corporation can go a long way by splitting they IT infra into multiple regions and doing maintenance in different regions at different time.

  • agnivade  5 days ago

    This idea sounds nice, but there's a high maintenance cost to this.

    - How will you maintain multiple deployments across multiple regions in the world? Backups, security patches will start to take a toll. - How granular is the right split? Not every country has a cloud provider. Then you need to start thinking about regions and office timings and then it starts to get all blurry.

    • mystifyingpoi  5 days ago

      > How will you maintain multiple deployments across multiple regions in the world? Backups, security patches will start to take a toll

      The same way as always - by automating the crap out of it.

      > How granular is the right split? Not every country has a cloud provider.

      Doesn't have to be one deployment for one country, does it? Having like 3 or 4 deployments across the globe already gives you (at least) 3-4 hours of inactivity window, let's say 1 am - 4 am or something.