Episode 18
#18 – James Arthur: ElectricSQL, read-path syncing, PGLite
localfirst.fm · localfirst.fm
December 3, 20241h 6m
Audio is streamed directly from the publisher (media.transistor.fm) as published in their RSS feed. Play Podcasts does not host this file. Rights-holders can request removal through the copyright & takedown page.
Show Notes
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.
Topics
localfirstwebdevsoftware