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SE Radio 716: Martin Kleppmann Local-First Software

SE Radio 716: Martin Kleppmann Local-First Software

Software Engineering Radio - The Podcast for Professional Software Developers vor 4 Monaten

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Martin Kleppmann, Associate Professor at the
University of Cambridge and author of the best-selling O'Reilly
book Designing Data-Intensive Applications, talks to host Adi
Narayan about local-first collaboration software. They discuss
what the term means, how it leads to simpler application
architectures compared to the cloud-first model, and the benefits
to developers and users from keeping all of their data on their
own devices. Martin goes into detail about how applications
can synchronize data with and without a server, as well as
conflict-resolution techniques, and the open-source library
Automerge, which implements CRDTs and developers can use
out-of-the-box. He also clarifies what kinds of applications
would be suitable for the local-first approach. In the context of
AI, they discuss vibe coding, local-first apps, and how the
conflict-resolution work that enables data to be synchronized
between users can also work with human-AI collaboration.