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Nathan Willson
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Nathan Willson's personal blog at nathanwillson.com covers programming and web. Since 2018, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-14, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters cite a post benchmarking multi-region Postgres on Fly.io with Elixir/Phoenix, which reports query latency from Japan to an Amsterdam primary. The comment links it as supporting data only.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Nathan's personal website for code, photography, and other musings.
What Hacker News says?
I think that's an interesting idea. Here's a post that benchmarked multi-region Postgres (Elixir/Phoenix on fly.io): https://nathanwillson.com/blog/posts/2021-09-25-fly-multi-db... According to the post, for some users (residing in Japan, and the primary instance being located in Amsterdam), a query could take ~200ms (median). If multiple queries are performed for each request, that could mean 1 second or more per A…
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