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#18 – James Arthur: ElectricSQL, read-path syncing, PGLite


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The guest of this episode is James Arthur, founder and CEO of Electric SQL, a Postgres-centric sync engine for local-first apps. This conversation will dive deep into how Electric works and explore its design decisions such as read-path syncing and using HTTP as the network layer to improve scalability. Towards the end we are also covering PGLite, a new Postgres in WASM project by Electric. 

Mentioned in podcast

  • James Arthur: x.com/thruflo / bsky.app/profile/thruflo
  • ElectricSQL
  • ElectricSQL - Quickstart
  • ElectricSQL - Github
  • Discord - ElectricSQL
  • PGlite
  • PGlite - Github
  • database.build
  • trigger.dev


Links:

  •  Website: localfirst.fm
  • X/Twitter: x.com/localfirstfm
  • YouTube: youtube.com/@localfirstfm

Thank you to PowerSync and Rocicorp for supporting the podcast.

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