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Also, separate HTTP requests allow for granular caching, and with HTTP/2 the overhead is minimal.
Your record in ES might include data from many different tables, and figuring out what to (efficiently) update when there is a change in Postgres is not a simple task.
America is "Měiguó" in Chinese.
I'm pretty sure the Chinese decide for themselves what they want to call America.
Currently, I'm exploring opportunities in the video editing space, based on pain points I experience with existing software.
This may help lowering the reliance of France on Russia but its energy production will still be reliant on other countries, as 100% of the required fuel (uranium) is imported.
I know most cities and neighborhoods aren't set up for that in the US, but if it can be done in Europe it can be done elsewhere.
I don't know what most Algolia customers are like, but we have been using them for a long time and we are a team of... 2 (only 1 being a technical person).
So hiring a whole team to work on search is certainly not an option for everyone. By paying $29 / month and spending a couple of hours on integration, you get a working search that most small shops will be happy with. That sounds like a valuable proposition to me.
It's not like US tech giants have much competition to fear from European companies anyway. A 3% price increase isn't going to get anyone to switch to another service (except maybe in the case of Amazon's physical sales).
In the end, consumers would pay and this would add to the already large price difference between the EU and the US, due to the much higher applicable VAT in the EU, as well as other similar taxes applied in some EU countries (private copying levy [0], eco-participation [1]...).