The guest of this episode is Adam Fish, co-founder and CEO of Ditto, a end-to-end syncing platform with a focus on resilient connectivity. In this conversation Adam shares the origin story of Ditto, his prior related work on Realm and the hard networking problems that Ditto is solving.Mentioned in podcast:Adam Fish: X + GitHubRealmDittoLinks: Website: localfirst.fmX/Twitter: x.com/localfirstfmYouTube: youtube.com/@localfirstfmThank you to Jazz for supporting the podcast.
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#25 – Tanner Linsley: TanStack DB
The guest of this episode is Tanner Linsley, creator of the TanStack ecosystem including projects such as React Query and TanStack Router. This episode will talk about the newest project, TanStack DB and explore the problems it’s trying to solve and how it works.Mentioned in podcast:Tanner Linsley: X + GitHubTanStackTanStack QueryTanStack DBLinks: Website: localfirst.fmX/Twitter: x.com/localfirstfmYouTube: youtube.com/@localfirstfmThank you to Jazz for supporting the podcast.
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#24 – Ben Holmes: Astro, Simple Sync Engine & Warp
The guest of this episode is Ben Holmes, a senior web developer and educator known for his whiteboard videos. After having spent most of his career building server-centric applications, Ben recently explored local-first software by building a simple sync engine which we talk through in-depth. Mentioned in podcast:Ben Holmes: Website + X + YouTube + Bluesky + GitHubAstroSimple Sync EngineWarpStop Building Databases by Carl SverreSQLSyncGraftLinks: Website: localfirst.fmX/Twitter: x.com/localfirstfmYouTube: youtube.com/@localfirstfmThank you to Jazz for supporting the podcast.
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#23 – Sujay Jayakar: Dropbox, Convex
This episode's guest is Sujay Jayakar, co-founder of Convex and early engineer at Dropbox. In this conversation, Sujay shares the story of how the sync engine powering Dropbox was initially built and later redesigned to address all sorts of distributed systems problems Mentioned in podcast:Sujay Jayakar: X + GitHub + Bluesky + LinkedinConvexDropboxTech Talk on Dropbox’s ArchitectureRewriting the heart of our sync engineTesting sync at DropboxHow Convex WorksA Map of SyncAn Object Sync Engine for Local-first AppsLinks: Website: localfirst.fmX/Twitter: x.com/localfirstfmYouTube: youtube.com/@localfirstfmThank you to Jazz for supporting the podcast.
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#22 – Paul Butler: Jamsocket
The guest of this episodeis Paul Butler, founder of Jamsocket and creator of the Y-Sweet project. This conversation will delve into building vs buying a sync engine and explore the various projects behind Jamsocket including Plane, Y-Sweet and ForeverVM.Mentioned in podcast:Paul Butler: Website + XJamsocketLearn YjsY-SweetPlaneForeverVMYou might not need a CRDTAI as a Player in MultiplayerBrowsertech Digest Trip Report: Local First ConfBrowsertech Digest: Encrypting offline storage for local-first appsBrowsertech Digest: Figma is a File EditorThe WebAssembly App GapLinks: Website: localfirst.fmX/Twitter: x.com/localfirstfmYouTube: youtube.com/@localfirstfmThank you to ElectricSQL and Jazz for supporting the podcast.
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