Multi-Region

Warning: Here be Dragons!

Out of the love and responsibility we feel towards our users we must seriously ask you and your team: are you SURE you need this?

Multi-region, even in a perfect devops world (which opta, nor any tool, is) is a really hard application side problem (i.e. your server code). The users will need to make their code knowingly switch from read to write replicas of the datastore, be tolerant to read lag, ideally even know what region it’s in and keep a sort of network map to know what app is in which region to optimize its http requests, and even more… There’s a ton of ways to mess this up, and it should only be really attempted to reach disparate user locales or maybe for some reliability scenarios (but that’s debatable and a conversation for another time). The big fish can do this because, well, they can throw an insane amount of money and talent to these problems– but us mortals need to be clever and choose our battles. If you’re mostly interested in site reliability, Opta should already have you covered via our high availability with azs

Opta hears its needs from its customers and is striving to make even these requirements not only feasible, but also as easy to implement as possible. That’s not to say it will be easy– again, multi-region architectures are always on the next level of complexity AND COST, both in the cloud resources and application code. But even in this new level, the Opta team will offer its simplicity and ease of us.