Engineering Evolution: The Sync Engine Journey

The guest of this episode is Tuomas Artman, co-founder and CTO of Linear. Prior to Linear, Tuomas had already built sync engines for over a decade at companies like Groupon and Uber. This conversation will explore how local-first and software quality was crucial for Linear’s success and how the concept of a startup MVP should be rethought. 

Mentioned in podcast

• Tuomas Artman: x.com/artman / github.com/artman
• Linear
• Scaling the Linear Sync Engine
• Rethinking the startup Mvp: Building a competitive product
• Unexpected benefits of going local-first - Tuomas Artman (Local-First Conf)

Links:

•  Website: localfirst.fm
• X/Twitter: x.com/localfirstfm
• YouTube: youtube.com/@localfirstfm

Thank you to PowerSync and Rocicorp for supporting the podcast.