Syncing > Querying.

Anywhere you query for data you should consider syncing data instead.

CDN-backed syncing means your data loads faster you get real-time updates for free.

It's like having mini PG read replicas scattered across your system.

What is fundamentally interesting about the shift from query -> sync?

Both answer the question: "how do I copy data from the database?"

Sync gives you two huge advantages:

1. built-in caching so cheap distribution of data via CDNs
2. real-time updates so no stale data

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Right yeah. "Sync engines" are all over the place. They're just all ad hoc. So yeah, formalizing the idea and making it really really fast/scalable/flexible is the innovation

actually no, i'll agree with you on this. the best take away is the cached data part although we have these components already in existing systems, a local db copy with sync capability just formalizes it.