Kyle Mathews
@kam
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.
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frolic
@frolic
How do you know what subset of data to sync? How do you keep that synced data fresh/accurate?
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Kyle Mathews
@kam
You define the "Shape" to sync — https://next.electric-sql.com/guides/shapes — more-or-less a SQL query. Electric listens to the replication log from Postgres and sends updated operations to people subscribed to the shape.
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frolic
@frolic
where are shapes defined?
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Kyle Mathews
@kam
Just with the http API https://next.electric-sql.com/api/http
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