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

#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.

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

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

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