What Every Application Developer Needs to Know About Geo-Distributed Databases

The text discusses the importance of geo-distributed databases in modern applications, particularly those built using cloud native architectures and serverless frameworks. The author shares their experience with YugabyteDB, a fully-managed cloud-native database that provides horizontal scalability, availability during major cloud region outages, and hybrid cloud deployments. They highlight how easy it is to deploy and connect to a geo-distributed database instance, even for developers without extensive distributed system expertise. The author focuses on the key aspects of creating a Java application using YugabyteDB as the geo-distributed database, including database deployment, connectivity, basic CRUD operations, and closing thoughts on the ease of use of such databases.