Frank McSherry Frank McSherry (@frankmcsherry.bsky.social) of Materialize with a great talk on how you can use virtual time to model data computation that efficiently sync inputs to outputs.

Angelique Nehmzow from Notion with an awesome deep dive into how they enabled offline editing by using CRDTs, the challenges due to the apps block model, and how they did this at scale.

The Convex team is at the Sync Conf today. Congrats to Yonatan and everyone for hosting the conference.

😅 Sync Conf

Enjoying Sync Conf. Lee Byron just saved me weeks (months?) of experimentation work by sharing how ChatGPT approaches ai editing in the collaborative canvas. So much opportunity to build better agent collaboration experiences.

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A really great talk from Carl Sverre about his research into using physical replication to enable offline-first applications with partial sync, and he introduced Graft, a system based on this for SQLite.

Brilliant technical deep dive from Adam Fish of @DittoLive into what comes after conflict-free replication, how CRDTs solve conflicts but not query consistency at scale, and a shift to systems that simply converge.

Compelling talk and demo by Brendan O'Brian b5 of number zero with a cross-sectional look at different approaches to sync, evaluating existing tools from the perspective of both capacity for being network optional.

Great talk from James Cowling of Convex on how sync is the holy grail app development primitive, with insights into the design of their query language, sync protocol, and database itself to support this primitive.

Arushi Bandi with a great talk on the history of the two sync engines that power Figma, why they evolved differently, and a deep-dive on the challenges of scaling one of them: LiveGraph.

Sync "puts humans back in the loop". Inspiring talk from Shawn Wang swyx🔜 @aidotEngineer CODE 🗽 on how agent and sync paradigms are natural complements because it creates a multiplayer experience by default.

Conrad Hofmeyr Conrad Hofmeyr with a great overview of the state of the art for using SQLite in the browser with WASM, looking at persistence, cross tab coordination and performance.

Brilliant panel discussion about sync with James Cowling, Kyle Mathews, Aaron Boodman and Johannes Schickling, with insights into sync engine design, DX and what they see as the future of app development.

Anselm Eickhoff Anselm Eickhoff of garden computing gave a great talk on their sync engine Jazz - the DB that syncs and how as they were creating it they realised they were building a database, but with unique capabilities.

Irakli Gozalishvili and Chris Joel with a fascinating talk exploring how ideas from decades of computer science combine in novel ways to address existing technical challenges in local-first software.

Awesome talk by Sunil Pai sunil pai from Cloudflare exploring the intersection of sync technology with AI agentic systems, concluding that all agents need a sync engine.

Closing out the first Sync Conf Adam Wiggins Adam Wiggins talked about how sync is a pragmatic bridge that gets us to many of the ideals of Local First software for a more enlightened future.