Looks like a nice launch for apps that need lower latency for reads. A noticeable omission from the blog post is how these replicas impact consistency. Won't reads from read-only regions have a weaker consistency than you typically get with Vitess/PlanetScale? I'm guessing weaker than read-your-writes.
Not directly related, I've been really tempted by all these exciting new database offerings.. PlanetScale, CockroachDB, FaunaDB.. but there don't seem to be any solid (node.js) background job queue libraries that support them. I really want to take advantage of these low dev-ops high availability offerings, but I don't want to have to tack Redis onto my stack just so I can use BullMQ, with data persistence and robustness as a bit of an afterthought.<p>And I don't want to roll my own because it's not a trivial thing to solve, especially with stall detection etc.<p>I'd love to just have one robust data-store.<p>Am I missing something?