My team is building an application that needs to scale to 10,000s of users – but not millions. Accordingly, we can’t necessarily follow SaaS models/best practices meant for scaling to millions of users as that would be overkill and not cost efficient.

One architecture we came up with involves compute in one region with serverless RDS databases deployed in different regions due to data residency/compliance requirements. Of course, generally, you never want applications to be too far away from their databases – definitely not continents apart! But that’s part of our literal requirement.

So to test to make sure our application will be able to have adequate database performance even with databases deployed literally in other continents, I built the Global DB Performance Tester using Cursor AI

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