Local-first is a set of principles that enables collaborative software without the loss of data ownership associated with the cloud. Martin is a computer scientist on the frontier of this movement, and he joins Mark and Adam to discuss how creative people put their souls into their work; a vision for a generic AWS syncing service; and why local-first could be a breakthrough for indie app developers.

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Martin Kleppmann
University of Cambridge
Debussy four-handed piano piece
Martin’s previous startup, Rapportive
Apache Kafka
Designing Data-Intensive Applications
Writing a book: is it worth it?
Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud
Ink & Switch
Geoffrey Litt
Pixelpusher
the fish says “what the hell is water?”
“crushing it”
elevator pitch
Google Docs
realtime collaboration
defrag your hard drive
self-hosting an SMTP server and spam filtering
thin client
Peter van Hardenberg
Pixelpusher
Automerge
“there is stuff you always use; and stuff that won’t work when you need it”
Slack’s free vs paid message retention
federation, mesh network
CRDTs
How we pay for software
Swift, Kotlin
technology transfer
fuzz testing, Monte Carlo simulation
local-first Trello clone demo
end-to-end encryption
Firebase

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