Frontend

I'm getting increasing conviction around the idea of using sync engines instead of APIs for building apps

The idea is simple: 

- apps read and write to a local db or object
- a sync engine keeps this magically synced with server db
- sync is designed to be conflict free (using crdts or similar)

Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

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I'm interested in the idea of writing collaborative apps without centralized backends by using a sync engine and a blockchain

Blockchains provide consensus of transaction order that enable efficient event sourcing models that can live in browser app memory and persist to storage like IPFS, Shadow Drive, Arweave

Tempted to try to turn my app plotdash.com (based on my sync-engine Flushout https://github.com/saarw/Flushout) into a PWA that uses Solana to buy storage and record transaction batches instead of persisting to my node backend

...but haven't decided it's the best use of my time

Data engineering consultant | Backend and data engineering for Spotify, Candy Crush, helped build SF-based appsec startup |  updab.com