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> sync engines only really "work" when you remove the offline part I don't see the gotcha here. I don't care about the offline part. I mean I accept that some people do, but that's…

What you are describing is exactly what sync engines do. You can have replicas on the server or replicas on the clients. The tradeoffs are the same except the client-based replicas…

I’m not. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48440209 These systems are designed for the very common case of a global user base. If you have geographically centralized users,…

Yeah, it's a big part of the tradeoff for this kind of architecture. In Zero, this is a first-class concern via the ConnectionStatus API: https://zero.rocicorp.dev/docs/connection …

We do support Replicache: https://i.imgur.com/R1pR58i.png . But I get it. Unfortunately something like this cannot be a sidecar, or at least I do not know how to make it one. It's …

Only in the case where there is such a majority of the company that is tightly geolocated. Again, AWS latency us-west-1 to us-east-1 is 70ms. That's absolute best case for one roun…

yeah we specifically decided not to be local/offline-first because these add huge complexity that is not needed for the type of apps we want to support. I spoke about this a bit he…

But this is kind of meaningless unless the tenants themselves are in one geo. Take linear as an example, this strategy works as long as your company that uses linear is all colocat…

If you're interested in this kind of experience for your application, check out Zero ( https://zero.rocicorp.dev/ ). Live demo: https://gigabugs.rocicorp.dev/ . We also list some a…

Well that "make a mutation client-side" phrase is doing a lot of work. Make a mutation to what? The classic server rendered web-app doesn't have any data to make a mutation to . Yo…

> it’s very possible to run a web app backend within ~10ms RTT of most users and have the backend render responses within ~10ms too. What are you talking about? The only AWS region…

Linus was my boss at Google for nearly 10 years. His main contribution was one of the key people behind Chrome. He's as good as they come.

I was there 2004-2014 and never used an IDE the entire time. From my perspective the most popular editors were emacs and vim. Life was probably different in the Android and Java ar…

But how can you know who to promote, how to balance resources, or who to hire if you're not leading the project? People management is about managing the company's resources to achi…

Do you people only interact with your manager via 1:1? I was constantly interacting with my boss - design meetings, code reviews, product decisions, whiteboard sessions, in slack, …

I mean a branching factor of 50 vs a branching factor of 7 is a massive difference. A team of 50 can either be run by one manager and a two-level tree or like 8 managers (!!) and a…

The most common split I'm aware of is tech lead / eng mgr. The eng mgr does "people stuff" like hiring/firing and cross-org negotiation, and tech lead does "technical stuff". But t…

I mean I have 7 reports right now and we're a startup. And fully remote. And I'm still contributing as an IC too.

lol I read "as many as 15+ direct reports" and thought it was hilariously low. My manager at google had like 50+ directs in 2010. And he was the best boss I've ever had. Popular co…

Congrats, Instant team. Genuinely happy for y'all.

But that is a kind of silly way to compare. Broccoli isn't very filling _and_ it doesn't have very much protein in it. That doesn't change the fact that it lack protein. The questi…

I live in Hawaii where the Toyota Tacoma is basically the state mascot. I owned almost exclusively sedans before I moved here. A friend from the bay area moved here several years a…