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by kobieps 9mo ago
PowerSync | Senior Backend Engineer and Database Expert | Full-time | Remote (opt-in regional offices) PowerSync is a sync engine that keeps your backend database in sync with on-device SQLite. We support Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB and SQL Se
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by kobieps 10mo ago
Haha fair, but in this case it was "loses the time if the power supply is interrupted"
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by kobieps 10mo ago
Even just a single accurate clock is a nightmare... https://www.npr.org/2025/12/21/nx-s1-5651317/colorado-us-off...
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by kobieps 10mo ago
Cool, makes sense. We still want to write a blog post about how we built powersync that will go into more detail on the points you raised. The one thing I'll add is we found "keeping UI responsive while syncing in the background&q
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by kobieps 10mo ago
Not sure if you're open to using tools for this, but PowerSync solves those tricky things you listed (and many more you didn't list (disclaimer I'm on the team)) We also have docs for common offline-first use cases. For tempo
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by kobieps 10mo ago
Yeah matic is vision only
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by kobieps 10mo ago
I'm quite happy with the product, it performs really well for the most part
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by kobieps 10mo ago
I literally had a customer decline a meeting today with this as the reason: "Couldnt find a proper space to conduct the meeting"
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by kobieps 11mo ago
Sure, but I more meant people recycling year old news for clicks, and smart people falling for it. That's a very broad phenomenon and not tied to crypto.
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by kobieps 11mo ago
surprising how often this happens...
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by kobieps 11mo ago
We don't come up against them in deals, but I do believe it can be a replacement. I heard from a customer that SAP are planning to EOL MobiLink, have you heard the same?
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by kobieps 11mo ago
PowerSync | Senior Backend Engineer and Database Expert | Full-time | Remote (opt-in regional offices) PowerSync is a sync engine that keeps your backend database in sync with on-device SQLite. We support Postgres, MySQL and MongoDB as sour
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by kobieps 1y ago
Good to see someone fighting the fight
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by kobieps 1y ago
Cool. Yeah in my experience last-write-wins is sufficient for 95% of use cases, and if you add audit trails to help resolve any disputes it gets you to 98%
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by kobieps 1y ago
Agreed @ overengineering for most use cases. Still, where a simpler approach gets tricky is if you only want to sync a subset of the backend database to any client's SQLite
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by kobieps 1y ago
Who is the audience of your app? Is it an internal app for a company, or is it a public facing consumer app?
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by kobieps 1y ago
Agreed @ not for the faint of heart. There is at least one alternative "CRDT-free" approach for the less brave among us: https://mattweidner.com/2025/05/21/text-without-crdts.html
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by kobieps 1y ago
It's kind of hard for me to think of a devtool as local-first or not, since the actual definition of local-first [1] talks about end-user software, not devtools. So the question is whether it's possible to build software that adhe
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by kobieps 1y ago
(I’m on the PowerSync team) I’m glad this post made its way to HN, since it allowed me to reflect on how much progress we’ve made since it was written. The blog post doesn’t support comments, so here goes: > The DX is the worst by quite
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by kobieps 1y ago
Friendly reminder that exit nodes are to be avoided. Hidden services are the way to go.
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by kobieps 1y ago
I can't speak to the other tools, but we built PowerSync using a schemaless protocol under the hood, specifically for this reason. Most of the time you don't need to implement migrations at all. For example adding a new column jus
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Testing PowerSync with Jepsen for Causal Consistency and More(github.com)
1 points by kobieps 1y ago|0 comments
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by kobieps 1y ago
It uses bitcoin lightning, are you referring to that?
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by kobieps 1y ago
surprised they don’t accept crypto
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by kobieps 1y ago
Preach. Gmail doesn't force password rotation, and one can just imagine the type of attacks they must sustain... Unfortunately corporate policies evolve at glacial speeds...
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by kobieps 1y ago
The pain points described in this post are exquisitely painful. Makes me bullish on sync engines.
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Building a Swift SDK with SKIE: Lessons in Bridging Kotlin and Swift(powersync.com)
1 points by kobieps 1y ago|0 comments
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by kobieps 1y ago
> A true local-first mobile app would allow me to collaborate with someone in the same room using Bluetooth, even out somewhere where I don't have wifi, cell service or Starlink Are there any popular cross platform apps that actuall
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by kobieps 1y ago
Anecdotaly I've found this to be true. The cause is probably multifaceted. Some things I noticed: - npm is legit slower in these countries - Flutter's easy and stable toolchain and great cross-platform support counts a lot more i
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by kobieps 1y ago
Yes

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