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If you keep the data on client side for longer than trivial amount of time, wouldn't you have to deal with conflict resolution? This could be a big problem for

If you keep the data on client side for longer than trivial amount of time, wouldn't you have to deal with conflict resolution? This could be a big problem for many use cases.

mirsadm 13y ago
Syncing and resolving conflicts is one of those things that everyone thinks is initially easy then realizes how difficult it is.
- MetaCosm 13y ago
  Then they punt and centralize.
- collyw 13y ago
  All I saw was the problems when he talked about that. The data will be a mess (if his database is in any way similar to the one I work on).
vidarh 13y ago
Yes, it is incredibly hard. But on the other hand, the problem of clients losing connection does not go away just because syncing is hard. If you're targeting mobile users, you have the choice between your app being unavailable a lot of the time to a lot of users, or handling syncing.