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Sync Conf @syncconf.bsky.social · 8d

Full lineup and schedule for @syncconf.bsky.social in SF on Nov 12. Link in the 🧵 below 👇

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Chris @chris.blue · 11d

If you find yourself in SF next week, @almog.xyz is talking about SlateDB at the SF Systems Meetup on Wednesday!

SF Systems Meetup: Databases and Stateful Apps · Luma

The SF Systems Meetup is back with a pair of talks giving us a peek at the future of state management! This month, we're excited to have talks from Almog Gavra…

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Automerge @automerge.org · 17d

🎮 Like CRDTs and videogames? @inkandswitch.com is ✨hiring✨ for a project that combines @automerge.org with @godotengine.org to make the next generation of collaboration tools for game development!

More detail here: inkandswitch.com/jobs/godot-i...

(Fully remote 🌍🌎🌏 contract, late Nov to April)

Godot IDE Engineer

Help build native, visual version control for collaborative game development in Godot

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Sync Conf @syncconf.bsky.social · 22d

The panel at Sync Conf 2025 brings together @tannerlinsley.com, @jamescowling.dev, @schickling.dev and @aaronboodman.com for a deep dive into challenges and tradeoffs between the technical approaches being explored in sync today.

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Sync Conf @syncconf.bsky.social · 25d

It was agonizing to choose from among the 34 excellent submissions, but here are the four talks selected from our CFP process!

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Sync Conf @syncconf.bsky.social · Oct 1

James Arthur @thruflo.com is building @electric-sql.com, the sync engine behind @tanstack.com and @elixir-lang.org. At Sync Conf 2025, he’ll kick things off with an intro on why sync matters for AI apps and agentic systems, including a demo of sync-based software in action.

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Adam Wiggins @adamwiggins.bsky.social · Sep 4

Sync seems to be having a moment among web developers!

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localfirst.fm @localfirst.fm · Sep 2

Our second #special is out.

Following the great success of @localfirstconf.com in Berlin, we're excited to share more about the vision for SyncConf 2025 in SF.

Full episode links and show notes in the comments.

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sophie alpert @sophiebits.com · Aug 23

I keep getting into conversations with engineers where I talk about how desperately I want my database to support materialized views with incremental updates and too often I get a blank stare in response.

so I wrote a new post about why you should care! sophiebits.com/2025/08/22/m...

Materialized views are obviously useful

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James Arthur @thruflo.com · Aug 19

One day boutique conference for the sync era of the web. Hear from the world's top builders about how to develop systems in the era of agentic software and real-time sync.

Sync Conf @syncconf.bsky.social · Aug 19

Announcing Sync Conf 2025. Join us in SF on Nov 12th.

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Sync Conf @syncconf.bsky.social · Aug 19

Announcing Sync Conf 2025. Join us in SF on Nov 12th.

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James Arthur @thruflo.com · Aug 14

electric-sql.com/demos/burn

Burn | ElectricSQL

Agentic system built on Postgres and a real-time sync stack.

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James Arthur @thruflo.com · Aug 14

For me, as a generalist software engineer, that's really exciting. Because it brings this whole revolution of agentic systems right back into my wheelhouse.

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James Arthur @thruflo.com · Aug 14

There's obviously a lot of work involved in putting those aspects together to create a working agentic product.

However, from an *infra* point of view, there's nothing there that doesn't pattern match to a database, some processes and real-time sync.

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James Arthur @thruflo.com · Aug 14

Instructing LLMs means sending an instruction to an LLM. Agentic memory is where you store data that those instructions are based on. Retrieval is the ability to query that data. Context engineering retrieves and formats the right information to send in the instruction.

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James Arthur @thruflo.com · Aug 14

Agents are essentially processes that instruct LLMs to make tool calls.

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James Arthur @thruflo.com · Aug 14

LangChain, vector databases, instruction routing, specialized memory stores.

You'd be forgiven for thinking you need a whole new stack to build agentic systems. However, that isn't actually the case: electric-sql.com/blog/2025/08...

Bringing agents back down to earth | ElectricSQL

Agentic AI, beneath all the hype, is actually just normal software. You can build agentic systems with a database, standard web tooling and real-time sync.

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James Arthur @thruflo.com · Aug 14

Agentic AI, beneath all the hype, is actually just normal software. You can build agentic systems with a database, standard web tooling and real-time sync.

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Andre Landgraf @andrelandgraf.com · Aug 7

I'm sure if it weren’t for AI, the web dev community would be talking a lot more about sync engines and TanStack DB right now.

I just published a short video + blog post to share why I’m so excited about TanStack DB and ElectricSQL!

youtu.be/OKHYUISDYmk

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Neon - Serverless Postgres @neon.com · Aug 7

TanStack DB with Sync provides an exciting new way to add end-to-end reactivity to your web applications, including optimistic UI updates. 🧵

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ElectricSQL @electric-sql.com · Aug 4

ElectricSQL recently completed a 120-day reliability sprint. Our one goal: make our sync engine so boring-reliable you stop thinking about it and just build.

We chased every incident, fixed every user-reported bug, and made unglamorous work our priority. 🧵

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James Arthur @thruflo.com · Jul 29

I know I wrote the blog post but holy fuck this is good.

ElectricSQL @electric-sql.com · Jul 29

Paired with Electric, TanStack DB provides an optimal end-to-end sync stack for local-first app development.

electric-sql.com/blog/2025/07...

Local-first sync with TanStack DB and Electric | ElectricSQL

Tanstack DB is a reactive client store for building super fast apps on sync. Paired with Electric, it provides an optimal end-to-end sync stack for local-first app development.

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ElectricSQL @electric-sql.com · Jul 29

Paired with Electric, TanStack DB provides an optimal end-to-end sync stack for local-first app development.

electric-sql.com/blog/2025/07...

Local-first sync with TanStack DB and Electric | ElectricSQL

Tanstack DB is a reactive client store for building super fast apps on sync. Paired with Electric, it provides an optimal end-to-end sync stack for local-first app development.

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ElectricSQL @electric-sql.com · Jul 29

Tanstack DB is a reactive client store for building super fast apps on sync.

Based on a TypeScript implementation of differential dataflow, it's type-safe, declarative, incrementally adoptable and insanely fast.

Kyle Mathews @kyle.bricolage.io · Jul 29

TanStack DB is now in BETA!

We’ve been working on TanStack DB, an embedded, reactive client database for TanStack Query, and are proud to announce today that with the 0.1 release that it's now in BETA!

tanstack.com/blog/tanstac...

Stop Re-Rendering — TanStack DB, the Embedded Client Database for TanStack Query | TanStack Blog

Your React dashboard shouldn't grind to a halt just because one TODO turns from ☐ to ☑. Yet every optimistic update still kicks off a cascade of re-renders, filters, useMemos and spinner flashes. If y...

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Sam Willis @samwillis.uk · Jul 29

Very excited to have reached the Beta milestone with @tanstack.com DB 🚀🎉
It’s been a privilege to work with @tannerlinsley.com and the team on building this, absolute rock stars!

Kyle Mathews @kyle.bricolage.io · Jul 29

TanStack DB is now in BETA!

We’ve been working on TanStack DB, an embedded, reactive client database for TanStack Query, and are proud to announce today that with the 0.1 release that it's now in BETA!

tanstack.com/blog/tanstac...

Stop Re-Rendering — TanStack DB, the Embedded Client Database for TanStack Query | TanStack Blog

Your React dashboard shouldn't grind to a halt just because one TODO turns from ☐ to ☑. Yet every optimistic update still kicks off a cascade of re-renders, filters, useMemos and spinner flashes. If y...

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