Geo-Distribution in YugabyteDB: Engineering Around the Physics of Latency
Customers today expect always-on, highly responsive access to services wherever they are in the world. This is driving businesses to deploy globally distributed applications that deliver better customer experiences. Moving to a geo-distributed database is a key part of this. Moving data closer to where the end-users are enables lower latency access. Geo-distribution can make the data service resilient to zone and region failures in the cloud. Recent adverse weather conditions and data center accidents have underscored the need for this.
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