Little elephants everywhere

• Conference Talk by James Arthur about ElectricSQL
• Given at the Local-First Conference (2024)

Notes

• Investors are asking him “why now” a lot
  • Didn’t we already promise that sync would solve problems with CouchDB, Realm, etc?
  • We still live under the tyrrany of 3LA
  • What’s different this time?
    • Massive improvements in browser APIs!
    • Durable storage, Wasm
• Run an entire PostgreSQL inside the browser
  • pg_analytics, no need to pickling data, special formats, etc
  • Just run the smae data on both client and server