THE VIDEO SHELF · sync engines
Scaling the Linear Sync Engine
A Linear engineer talks about scaling the company's sync engine, which keeps client data local and synchronized. It follows an earlier talk on the same system.
Why HN readers recommended it
Recommended whenever local-first software, sync engines and CRDT alternatives come up, as a practical production account.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Linear
- Topic
- sync engines
- Format
- talk
- Level
- advanced
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 5
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2023–2025
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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This article has been quite the inspiration for many projects and progress on this front. I think we're seeing more and more developments around CRDTs and local-first frameworks / applications. I'm working on a few projects in this area: - [LINK] - Notion meets Notebook-style …
YousefED on Hacker News · 2023-10
In Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud (2019)You may not need CRDT per-se, but building a collaborative experience is so difficult. I worked on collaborative systems for a bit, and also have read a bit about how Figma and Notion do it (this is a good read: [LINK] ) -- it's still …
saqadri on Hacker News · 2023-11
In You don't need a CRDT to build a collaborative experience
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