Where Is Your Data?
Cloud Native Now, Tuesday, August 1,2023
I've written a series of articles on cloud-native data architecture, including creating your cloud-native data strategy, getting your data architecture right in cloud-native applications and five rules for getting data architecture right. In these articles, I've talked about how to create and adjust your data architecture to work effectively in a cloud-native application.
But there is another topic important to cloud-native data architecture, and that is data geography. Where should you locate your data, and how does the location impact your customers and their expectations?
Geography is Important
Where are your customers located? When you determine your data architecture, it's important to understand where your customers are located and what expectations they have for accessing your data.
Often, applications use a very simple approach to the geography question-they ignore it.