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Brooklyn Zelenka - Author of Numerous Libraries Including Witchcraft & Founded the Vancouver Functional Programming Meetup
Julian Wood - Serverless Developer Advocate at AWS
RESOURCES
Brooklyn
https://bsky.app/profile/expede.wtf
https://octodon.social/@expede@types.pl
https://github.com/expede
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brooklynzelenka
https://notes.brooklynzelenka.com
Julian
https://bsky.app/profile/julianwood.com
https://twitter.com/julian_wood
http://www.wooditwork.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/julianrwood
Links
https://automerge.org
https://discord.com/invite/zKGe4DCfgR
https://www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-cooked-app
https://github.com/ipvm-wg
https://www.localfirst.fm
https://localfirstweb.dev
DESCRIPTION
Distributed systems researcher Brooklyn Zelenka unpacks the paradigm shift of local-first computing, where applications primarily run on users' devices and synchronize seamlessly without central servers.
In a conversation with Julian Wood, she explains how this approach reduces latency, enables offline functionality, improves privacy through encryption, and democratizes app development—all while using sophisticated data structures. Perfect for collaborative tools and "cozy web" applications serving smaller communities, local-first software represents a fundamental rethinking of how we've built software for the past 30 years.
RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Ford, Parsons, Kua & Sadalage • Building Evolutionary Architectures 2nd Edition
Ford, Richards, Sadalage & Dehghani • Software Architecture: The Hard Parts
Mark Richards & Neal Ford • Fundamentals of Software Architecture
Ford, Parsons & Kua • Building Evolutionary Architectures
Neal Ford • Functional Thinking
Michael Feathers • Working Effectively with Legacy Code
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