📰 News & Discussions Aljoscha Meyer & Sam Gwilym - Earthstar + Willow "We’re working on Willow, a family of protocols for synchronisable data stores." "You may have heard of something like this referred to as 'local-first', or offline-first, and we’re far from the first
📰 News & Discussions MongoDB Atlas Device Sync Deprecation Big news this week is that MongoDB deprecated their Atlas Device Sync product, which many developers used as a sync engine. "As of September 2024, Device Sync is deprecated for Atlas App Services. Device Sync will reach end-of-life and be removed
📰 News & Discussions localfirst.fm #14 - Matthew Weidner: Architectures for Central Server Collaboration "The guest of this episode is Matthew Weidner, a computer science PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University focussing on distributed systems and local-first software. Matthew has recently published an extensive blog post about architectures for
📰 News & Discussions Recapping the first Local‑First conference in 15 minutes Andrey Sitnik (@sitnikcode) recaps the main idea of every talk from Local‑First Conf, which took place in Berlin on May 30th 2024. Local-First (LoFi) Meetup #18 (video) The LoFi #18 meetup took place on Tuesday August 27th,
📰 News & Discussions Local-first is more than just a software problem Podcast episode / video by @raymmar_: "Local-first software is about more than just software. It's about people, it's about protecting your privacy, it's about data, it's about building relationships that mirror
📰 News & Discussions Fireproof Uses Merkle CRDTs to Cut Database Latency "The low latency, run-anywhere database combines cryptographic technologies with linked data and distributed computing approaches." localfirst.fm #13 – Maggie Appleton: Barefoot Developers, AI, end-user programming The guest of the latest episode of localfirst.fm is Maggie Appleton
📰 News & Discussions The SQLite Takeover with Turso’s Glauber Costa The Syntax.fm podcast interviews Glauber Costa (@glcst) regarding Turso, a distributed SQLite platform getting attention for its managed service and libSQL fork. GenAI Predictions and The Future of LLMs as local-first offline SLMs @liran_tal discusses issues with
📰 News & Discussions LoFi/17 Community Meetup The LoFi/17 community meetup took place on Tuesday July 30th, with talks by Stepan Parunashvili from Instant ("Writing a Graph-Based Sync Engine"), James Addison ("Shapeshifting media & collaboration"), and James Pearce of TinyBase ("CRDTs are the Easy
📰 News & Discussions "Building Resilient Distributed Systems" in early access Author Sam Newman shared that a few chapters of this upcoming book are available in early access. Publication is planned for August 2025. ElectricSQL announce clean rebuild Announcing a new direction, the ElectricSQL team said they would rebuild