I once consulted for a global e-commerce platform that was experiencing a bizarre latency crisis. Their frontend was hosted on blazing-fast edge networks (Cloudflare Workers) distributed across 120 cities worldwide.
Distributed Databases 2026: Why Traditional SQL is Finally Obsolete
Executive Summary: The Core Problem: Traditional relational databases (like single-node PostgreSQL or MySQL) were built for an era when applications lived on a single server. In 2026, deploying a serverless