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Date Published
Author
Premkumar Thangamani
Word count
2484
Language
English
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None

Summary

Seven Multi-Region Deployment Best Practices` aims to provide a better understanding of how to deploy databases across multiple regions with reduced latency and improved performance. By following these best practices, developers can ensure their applications handle region outages without affecting customers, achieve low-latency reads, and improve overall system availability. The key strategies include reducing inter-region latency by configuring preferred leaders, enabling follower reads for read-heavy workloads, localizing data with tablespaces, using row-level geo-partitioning to store data in different regions, avoiding trips to the table with covering indexes, generating duplicate covering indexes across regions, and utilizing load balancing with smart drivers. By implementing these strategies, developers can create highly available services that provide low-latency reads and improve overall system performance.