Martijn Hols
@martijnhols.nl
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React Developer, entrepreneur, IT, motorcycles, games and Dutch, but I tweet about front-end stuff. https://martijnhols.nl/
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In my last article I briefly mentioned a preference for European services. To elaborate, I posted the article: martijnhols.nl/blog/moving-...

It's a bit off-topic for my blog. After the upcoming "hug of death" article, I'll circle back to front-end/React based stuff.
Moving away from US cloud services by Martijn Hols
Relying on US cloud services poses legal and political risks for EU users, so I'm moving away from US cloud services. Here's how and why I did it.
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Definitely! And they underestimate the cost of cloud services when things start growing, while servers are just static
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Next still runs a server in front via Node to handle all kinds of things such as rewrites, headers, compression and other middleware. But yes, its impact isn't that big. The article is focussed of what a standard pre-rendered, self-hosted Next.js server can handle
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React makes developing it a lot easier and fun, especially to add small interactive components like the tooltip I use everywhere. NextJS builds down to prerendered pages, so its impact should be minimal
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In the next article I'll be answering the question: how much traffic can a pre-rendered site really handle? I ran some benchmarks on Next.js on my site, and made some interesting discoveries.
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Countries need to implement local laws for the directive that are _at least as strict_. In other words, the actual law is actually stricter in some member countries. I did not look into country-specifics, but the "new developments" interpretation is erring on the side of caution.
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Hi, thanks! 28 June 2025 is listed in the scope in article 2; eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten... In article 32, the directive lists a transitional period until 2030; eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten.... There's also accessible.org, which has a lot on the EAA eg accessible.org/european-acc...
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Reserved my name on Bsky, but I'm still active on Twitter. Can I set up automatic reposting from Twitter? I'll probably forget to repost here otherwise.