41 // Local-first software with Martin Kleppmann

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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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Show notes

• 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