Do It Yourself Database CDN with Embedded Replicas

I think this is going to be one of several blog posts they are writing essentially providing users with escape hatch ways to deal with features they've dropped. It wasn't just their edge DB play, but also the multi-tenant "schema only" db system they dropped recently. Both can be done on your own, with setup, and I think they're doing their best to show that to users through these kind of posts.

What's sort of hidden from this is that I believe they charge more for embedded syncs, so they have an incentive for you to use them vs. their edge system (which was on them to maintain globally). Embedded syncs are nice, because for every 5th "response time" benchmark we see from their competitors in the hosted Postgres world, Turso can basically say "0" to.

I'm honestly more surprised they dropped the multi-tenant stuff. That seems like a real use case for in the field devices. I'm guessing they likely have better ways to handle it in their rewrite, and don't want to maintain the current version till they release all the new stuff.

Overall though I've found Turso very stable.