From the Locanium blog
Engineering notes, product thinking, and field lessons on location, identity and global data.
One integration, eight data sources: why API sprawl is quietly costing you
Five vendors, five SDKs, five invoices, five status pages. Consolidation isn't just tidier — it's fewer failure modes and one latency budget to reason about.
Read articleBuild vs. buy: the real cost of running your own GeoIP and validation stack
Self-hosting MaxMind, chasing VIES downtime and refreshing FX rates looks free — until you price the engineering hours. Here's the honest math.
How accurate is IP geolocation, really? (and when to reach for GPS)
Country-level: 99%+. City-level: it depends. Here's what the accuracy numbers actually mean, where IP breaks down, and when GPS is the honest answer.
Location data and GDPR: handling personal data the compliant way
An IP address is personal data under GDPR. Here's how to use geolocation for good UX without turning your app into a compliance liability.
What 40 ms latency and 99.99% uptime actually mean for your users
SLA numbers are easy to print and hard to feel. Here's how p50/p99 latency and four-nines uptime translate into real requests, real users and real revenue.