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Local-First Software Is Easier to Scale

The title of this post is somewhat misleading. Local-first software rarely needs to be scaled at all.

They are all just jargon for a simple idea: We run all the relevant grammar checking code as physically close to the users as possible. If suddenly the number of requests we received were to double (as it did for the Chrome extension), we would be big trouble. This not only takes hiring an expert in cloud architecture, but also additional funding to pay the AWS (or whatever) bill at the end of the month.

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