Kyle Mathews
@kam
Big announcement! I'm now a co-founder at @electricsql along with the James/Valter and the brilliant team they've built. We're solving local caching of Postgres data. Electric is a VC-backed devtools OSS startup. We're close to our first beta release so come check us out!
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Kyle Mathews
@kam
What is Electric? Electric maintains local caches of data from Postgres — so instead of querying data, Electric syncs in real-time selected parts of your db to your app or backend service.
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Kyle Mathews
@kam
This solves local caching — which is really powerful. Caches are only useful to the degree that they're trustworthy and cheap to maintain.
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Kyle Mathews
@kam
Electric serves data over HTTP meaning that serving data to even millions of clients is trivial as you can use rock-solid http caches like Nginx or CDNs.
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Kyle Mathews
@kam
It's an imperative -> declarative shift like jQuery -> React. You want PG data in your app or backend service. But imperative approaches like REST APIs make you do a lot of work to get the data and keep updating it.
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