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Sync Conf @syncconf.bsky.social · 2d

The panel at Sync Conf 2025 brings together @tannerlinsley.com, @jamescowling.dev, @schickling.dev and @aaronboodman.com for a deep dive into challenges and tradeoffs between the technical approaches being explored in sync today.

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Sync Conf @syncconf.bsky.social · 5d

It was agonizing to choose from among the 34 excellent submissions, but here are the four talks selected from our CFP process!

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Sync Conf @syncconf.bsky.social · 12d

Host of Latent Space and AI engineering master @swyx.io is joining us at Sync Conf 2025. Tastemaker, product builder, and voice behind AI Engineering Summit.

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Sync Conf @syncconf.bsky.social · 19d

Sunil Pai from Cloudflare will present at Sync Conf 2025.
Sunil is the creator of Partykit, and now working on edge computing with D1 + Durable Objects. He'll speak about how sync engines are a perfect fit for building agentic AI apps.

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Sync Conf @syncconf.bsky.social · 20d

Carl Sverre @f0a.org of SQLSync is speaking at Sync Conf 2025 on partial replication.
He takes a slightly contrarian view: no CRDTs, but instead block-level replication. Hear all about it on Nov 12.3

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Sync Conf @syncconf.bsky.social · 23d

Welcome Frank McSherry @frankmcsherry.bsky.social to Sync Conf 2025. Pioneer of sync technology, inventor of Differential Dataflow, and founder of @materialize.com, Frank will trace the evolution of sync and stream processing.

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Sync Conf @syncconf.bsky.social · 27d

With rising user expectations set by apps like Linear, Figma, and Notion, the next generation of software will need sync engine technologies to meet the new quality baseline." @schickling.dev

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Sync Conf @syncconf.bsky.social · Sep 12

"From developer experience to user agency and data ownership. Different motivations unite into a stronger coalition for local-first tech." @adamwiggins.bsky.social

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Sync Conf @syncconf.bsky.social · Sep 11

"Sync is predicted to be a key technology for the coming years. This one-day, 300-person gathering could be remembered as a seminal conference. That group of people who all went on to do amazing things. " @thruflo.com

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Adam Wiggins @adamwiggins.bsky.social · Sep 4

Sync seems to be having a moment among web developers!

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Sync Conf @syncconf.bsky.social · Sep 3

"Should companies build their own sync engine or rely on off-the-shelf solutions?" @schickling.dev. A topic at Sync Conf.

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localfirst.fm @localfirst.fm · Sep 2

Our second #special is out.

Following the great success of @localfirstconf.com in Berlin, we're excited to share more about the vision for SyncConf 2025 in SF.

Full episode links and show notes in the comments.

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Sync Conf @syncconf.bsky.social · Aug 28

Lee Byron @leebyron.bsky.social is the co-creator of #GraphQL, now at #OpenAI. He'll be speaking at Sync Conf 2025, breaking down how sync powers the next wave of agentic systems.

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Sync Conf @syncconf.bsky.social · Aug 26

Notion redefined how teams collaborate. At Sync Conf 2025, Angelique Nehmzow will reveal the sync engine behind Notion’s offline-first, multi-user experience, and why it’s been key to their success.

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Sync Conf @syncconf.bsky.social · Aug 25

Early bird tickets are gone! We’re counting down to the talks, the ideas, and the conversations in SF.

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Sync Conf @syncconf.bsky.social · Aug 22

Tanner Linsley (@tannerlinsley.com) creator of @tanstack.com, is bringing his vision for app dev to Sync Conf 2025.

From TanStack DB to mainstream DX, he’ll share where sync belongs in the next wave of software.

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Sync Conf @syncconf.bsky.social · Aug 19

Announcing Sync Conf 2025. Join us in SF on Nov 12th.

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Local-First Conf @localfirstconf.com · Aug 7

The Community Day workshops just dropped! www.youtube.com/@localfirstc...

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Learn from engineers, designers, academics, startups, and indie developers who are putting local-first into practice and reaping the benefits of a cloud-optional architecture.

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Local-First Conf @localfirstconf.com · Jun 26

Watch @devagr.bsky.social talk about sync engine's best friend: Fine-grained rendering. youtu.be/YQT26cnCKqo?...

Dev Agrawal - Sync engine's best friend: fine-grained rendering

We all love sync engines for their ability to simplify state management and enable instant UI interactions, but the secret third benefit is the potential of ...

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Local-First Conf @localfirstconf.com · Jun 25

Watch @patternist.xyz talk about Beelay, a (reasonably) generic encrypted sync protocol for CRDTs. youtu.be/neRuBAPAsE0?...

Alex Good - Beelay, a (reasonably) generic encrypted sync protocol for CRDTs

For the last six months the Automerge team has been working on implementing end-to-end encryption and access control for local first applications as part of ...

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Local-First Conf @localfirstconf.com · Jun 24

Watch @expede.wtf talk about Safe in the Keyhive: Local-first access control with E2EE and capabilities youtu.be/iLp2xBMud10?...

Brooklyn Zelenka - Safe in the Keyhive: Local-first access control with E2EE and capabilities

Traditional auth systems like OAuth depend on the network boundary to secure your data from prying eyes. We have no such luxury in local-first: your data can...

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Local-First Conf @localfirstconf.com · Jun 23

Watch @thruflo.com talk about Introducing TanStack DB youtu.be/ia9FpY_Sw_4?...

James Arthur - Introducing TanStack DB

Introducing TanStack DB, a reactive client store for building super fast apps on sync.-----Learn from engineers, designers, academics, startups, and indie de...

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Local-First Conf @localfirstconf.com · Jun 20

Watch @timoth.ee talk about building a Yjs sync provider using Cloudflare workers. youtu.be/CDNGdrJajRc?...

Timo Wilhelm - Building a Yjs sync provider using Cloudflare Workers

Using Cloudflare Workers and Durable Objects to run a serverless WebSocket backend for Yjs, a library of data structures for building collaborative software ...

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Local-First Conf @localfirstconf.com · Jun 19

Watch the panel consisting of ‪@adamwiggins.bsky.social‬, @martin.kleppmann.com, ‪@aaronboodman.com‬, and Peter van Hardenberg answer the big questions of the Local first. youtu.be/86NmEerklTs?...

Panel Discussion - The big questions of Local First

This panel discussion brings together Adam Wiggins, Martin Kleppmann, Aaron Boodman, and Peter van Hardenberg to discuss the big questions before the Local F...

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Local-First Conf @localfirstconf.com · Jun 18

Watch @paulbutler.org talk about CRDTs as a temporal data structure. youtu.be/b4fDzmNE50U?...

Paul Butler - CRDTs as a temporal data structure

It's often useful in applications to have a historic view of data (e.g. "revision history" in GDocs, or the commit log in Git). Storing this efficiently requ...

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