2024.07.25

📰 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 their sync system as "electric-next" with an initial focus on the read path only.

The arbitrage opportunity for local-first in B2B SaaS

Twitter/X thread started by @emerywells on how apps with instant UI could dominate B2B markets.

🛠️ Tools & Resources

TinyBase v5.1

TinyBase, a "reactive data store for local-first apps", adds server sync capabilities in this release.

pgstream v0.1.0

A Postgres CDC tool that can replicate data and schema changes in the same linear stream.

Local-only Svelte tutorial

A step-by-step tutorial by Scott Tolinski on working with IndexedDB via Dexie.js and SvelteKit. Implementing a sync engine will be covered in a subsequent tutorial.

Architectures for Central Server Collaboration

Matthew Weidner models architectural techniques that can be used to create real-time collaborative apps using a central server.

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