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A React frontend sends traffic through an Nginx reverse proxy, to VMs running in multiple regions. Running VMs in multiple regions (once properly load-balanced) will result in shorter round trips, as well as enabling us to reroute traffic in the event of a region outage. These VMs are all running the same containerized Node.js process, which creates a connection to a YugabyteDB database. YugabyteDB is a Postgres-compliant, highly-available, distributed database. If you’d like to spin up an always-free single-node cluster for yourself, you can do so here.
A React frontend sends traffic through an Nginx reverse proxy, to VMs running in multiple regions. Running VMs in multiple regions (once properly load-balanced) will result in shorter round trips, as well as enabling us to reroute traffic in the event of a region outage. These VMs are all running the same containerized Node.js process, which creates a connection to a YugabyteDB database. YugabyteDB is a Postgres-compliant, highly-available, distributed database. If you’d like to spin up an always-free single-node cluster for yourself, you can do so here.
While the precise features of the application are immaterial, the architecture is of primary importance. A lot of tools (and buzzwords) come to mind when trying to architect a modern web application. Assets can be served from a CDN to improve page load speed. A global load balancer can front all traffic, sending requests to the nearest server. Serverless functions and edge functions can be used to handle requests, eliminating the need to manage infrastructure altogether. Kubernetes can be deployed for container orchestration, networking and healing, amongst many other production-grade features. The list goes on.