Ostap Brehin

@ostapbrehin.com

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21 y.o indie hacker from Ukraine. Working on a SaaS product. Curious about programming, DevOps and music production.

"Not just hobby apps, serious applications with considerable user bases can go far with vertical scaling a dedicated server. It feels nice to think about the edge and your app being right next to the user, but ping times between Chicago and Amsterdam are under 100ms. By optimizing your own applications latency, you can easily serve US and European markets without getting into complex infrastructure. Latin American, Asian and African customers might be better served by edge computing, but the hardest part of breaking into and serving those markets are definitely not the hosting architecture."
screenshot of the zoomed in itunes window
a screenshot of a site with a "call" widget on the bottom left corner and an answer button, which actually leads to a call scheduling site.
A macOS screenshot with no files on the desktop. terminal window open with a command to change default screenshots folder and move existing ones there.