a year ago
We are building a app that is going to expose the api which is going to be send to an email list of 400k people very soon. We have been using railway for almost 2 years now on the pro plan. Everything has been smooth.
I have a simple remixjs app (with postgres and redis) with an api endpoint which needs to scale and be performant for everyone across the world. How do I do it if the api is dependant on postgres which is locked to one location
I'm also looking at fly if nothing works. I wanted to do what I could by sticking on to the platform. Since multi region for postgres and redis is not available, how do we speed up for users around the world?
I saw you have a banner on postgres HA cluster is not battle tested so not confident in using that as well.
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I'm not very experienced with servers. lemme know if I'm just being paranoid for no reason
I have done everything I can to cache the api response and also added a redis cache
a year ago
make sure all all your infrastructure is either on metal or not, the cross zone latency is a thing.
if your services are on gcp then so should your edge network, if your services are on metal, then your edge network should also use metal (thunder bolt icon besides the domain)
make sure the remix service has multiple replicas in multiple regions since node is limited to 1vcpu you need to horizontally scale instead.
a database in multiple regions is overhyped, and extremely complex to setup, even if you are just doing read replicas, if anything you can do redis in multiple regions for regional cache.
@Brody Thank you!
Metal does not have cross zone latency?
Is Metal fully ready, I'm a little hessitant because I feel its recently released and this event is going to make or break our project
If I have single postgres and multiple instance reading it wouldn't I hit a pool limit? I have had this issue before where postgres went un connectable on railway. You helped me at that time.?
a year ago
i am referring to any gcp to metal zone - they are different datacenters so you do not want to mix and match
metal stateless, yes, metal stateful, no
postgres has a default max connection limit of 100, so if you stay under that i dont see any problems
a year ago
correct, its possible, but its beta
a year ago
our global entrypoints for inbound traffic
How do I make sure "if your services are on gcp then so should your edge network,"?
a year ago
thunder bolt icon besides the domain, if its there then you are on the gcp edge network, if there is isntead a revert button, you are on the metal edge
a year ago
hover your mouse over the doman
a year ago
!s
Status changed to Solved brody • 11 months ago