If you are going to use a centralize database coupled with edge compute, you may end up with far worse end-to-end latencies if your compute<->db does multiple roundtrips per request (which is fairly common in practice). In most cases, you need compute and db to be colocated.
I am skeptical of edge compute being generalizable. I do forsee a bright future for it for embarrassingly parallel problem space, where data sharding can be done cleanly based on an end user.
I am founder of another YC backed company. We based our startup on GCP infra. They have great tech (for the most part) but I regret it so deeply for two reasons:
Support or desire to help customers is non-existent. For any questions, they want us to upgrade to paid support and pay them at least 10% more every month for that (we ask like 1-2 questions a year). What? We are already paying you thousands of dollars every month! I get included support for all my software subscriptions - so this is my biggest beef. Also, when they do help, they keep passing you around from team to team and dont resolve issues as well I’d like. It is just not a company I can love as a customer.
Their status dashboard is a joke. They dont even report minor outages, when they do, they start after a huge delay and update very slowly. And worst of all - when it only affects a single zone or a single region, they remove it from historic reports so everything looks green/great.
Trey - congrats on the launch! Love what you are doing and cant wait to see how you evolve it. Integrations are definitely a PITA and Oauth2 is a great starting point! Best wishes!
Good question. Probably the same. English, and especially business English, is not a precise language. I am not really an expert but was part of the larger org.
Just to be clear - colocation here is in order of thousands of square feet. The datacenter provider provides redundant utilities. The customer does everything else.
Where is this place? I agree with grandparent - for the past decade or so, having your “own datacenter” means leasing floorspace in an actual datacenter run and managed by someone else.
I live and work in the Bay area. I was part of the larger org that ran Uber’s datacenter (co-located) and that’s how it was talked about.
I’ve recently started working on documenting (still very, very early) on “measuring” user feedback at https://datadriventeam.org after having 50+ conversations about it with various startup founders/leaders. It is backed by an open source GitHub repo and I hope people would contribute once I’ve gotten the initial version ironed out.
Yup, totally agree. I will update the guide with this quote/source and expand on this line of thinking on my next edits. As you can see it's very early days for the guide. Thanks Ray!