#24 – Ben Holmes: Astro, Simple Sync Engine & Warp

Special: Announcing SyncConf 2025

In this special episode, together with Adam Wiggins and James Arthur, we’re excited to announce the first Sync Conf in San Francisco in November. Mentioned in podcast: * James Arthur: x.com/thruflo [https://x.com/thruflo] / bsky.app/profile/thruflo [https://bsky.app/profile/thruflo.com] * Adam Wiggins: x.com/_adamwiggins_ [https://x.com/_adamwiggins_] / adamwiggins.com [https://adamwiggins.com/] * SyncConf [https://syncconf.dev] Links: *  Website: localfirst.fm [https://localfirst.fm/] * X/Twitter: x.com/localfirstfm [https://x.com/localfirstfm] * YouTube: youtube.com/@localfirstfm [https://www.youtube.com/@localfirstfm] Thank you to Jazz [https://jazz.tools/] for supporting the podcast.

#26 – Adam Fish: Ditto, Realm

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 [https://x.com/Adam_Fish] + GitHub [https://github.com/bigfish24] * Realm [https://www.mongodb.com/realm] * Ditto [https://www.ditto.com] Links: *  Website: localfirst.fm [https://localfirst.fm/] * X/Twitter: x.com/localfirstfm [https://x.com/localfirstfm] * YouTube: youtube.com/@localfirstfm [https://www.youtube.com/@localfirstfm] Thank you to Jazz [https://jazz.tools/] for supporting the podcast.

#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 [https://x.com/tannerlinsley] + GitHub [https://github.com/tannerlinsley] * TanStack [https://tanstack.com] * TanStack Query [https://tanstack.com/query/latest] * TanStack DB [https://tanstack.com/db/latest] Links: *  Website: localfirst.fm [https://localfirst.fm/] * X/Twitter: x.com/localfirstfm [https://x.com/localfirstfm] * YouTube: youtube.com/@localfirstfm [https://www.youtube.com/@localfirstfm] Thank you to Jazz [https://jazz.tools/] for supporting the podcast.

#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 [https://bholmes.dev] + X [https://x.com/bholmesdev] + YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/@bholmesdev] + Bluesky [https://bsky.app/profile/bholmes.dev] + GitHub [https://github.com/bholmesdev] * Astro [https://astro.build] * Simple Sync Engine [https://github.com/bholmesdev/simple-sync-engine] * Warp [https://www.warp.dev] * Stop Building Databases [https://sqlsync.dev/posts/stop-building-databases]by Carl Sverre * SQLSync [https://sqlsync.dev] * Graft [https://github.com/orbitinghail/graft] Links: *  Website: localfirst.fm [https://localfirst.fm/] * X/Twitter: x.com/localfirstfm [https://x.com/localfirstfm] * YouTube: youtube.com/@localfirstfm [https://www.youtube.com/@localfirstfm] Thank you to Jazz [https://jazz.tools/] for supporting the podcast.

#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 [https://x.com/sujayakar314] + GitHub [https://github.com/sujayakar] + Bluesky [https://bsky.app/profile/sujayakar.bsky.social] + Linkedin [https://www.linkedin.com/in/sujayakar] * Convex [https://www.convex.dev] * Dropbox [https://www.dropbox.com] * Tech Talk on Dropbox’s Architecture [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE4gwstWhmc] * Rewriting the heart of our sync engine [https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/rewriting-the-heart-of-our-sync-engine] * Testing sync at Dropbox [https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/-testing-our-new-sync-engine] * How Convex Works [https://stack.convex.dev/how-convex-works] * A Map of Sync [https://stack.convex.dev/a-map-of-sync] * An Object Sync Engine for Local-first Apps [https://stack.convex.dev/object-sync-engine] Links: *  Website: localfirst.fm [https://localfirst.fm/] * X/Twitter: x.com/localfirstfm [https://x.com/localfirstfm] * YouTube: youtube.com/@localfirstfm [https://www.youtube.com/@localfirstfm] Thank you to Jazz [https://jazz.tools/] for supporting the podcast.