> Are or problems with distributed data and databases solved?
What do you need it for? I'm not being facetious, I'd really rather like to know. What I see is that this sort of thing is only needed when you are planning to have the next facebook/reddit/etc type of business.
I write line of business software for different SMEs, and I have not yet found a need for anything more than a beefy server/VPS.
Even companies with 100k employees each using the same piece of software does not need anything "distributed", if you're even a little careful with read-only replicas, some caching of state, etc.
You want to geolocate nearer to some users? For the reddit/facebook type of business, sure, good idea.
For the majority of software, why would you? That webapp functions only slightly degraded when used from the other side of the world.
What do you need it for? I'm not being facetious, I'd really rather like to know. What I see is that this sort of thing is only needed when you are planning to have the next facebook/reddit/etc type of business.
I write line of business software for different SMEs, and I have not yet found a need for anything more than a beefy server/VPS.
Even companies with 100k employees each using the same piece of software does not need anything "distributed", if you're even a little careful with read-only replicas, some caching of state, etc.
You want to geolocate nearer to some users? For the reddit/facebook type of business, sure, good idea.
For the majority of software, why would you? That webapp functions only slightly degraded when used from the other side of the world.