Sujay Jayakar

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Co-founder and Chief Scientist at Convex. Former engineer at Dropbox, where he worked on sync infrastructure for seven years.

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An Object Sync Engine for Local-first Apps

by sujay-jayakar

The object sync engine — three components (local store, server store, sync protocol) wired together with server authority — is the architecture Linear, Figma, and Asana independently converged on. Convex is building their version.

sync-engines local-first architecture distributed-systems convexNov 13, 2024

A Map of Sync

by sujay-jayakar

The sync ecosystem is a wilderness — nine dimensions (size, update rate, structure, latency, offline, concurrency, centralization, flexibility, consistency) map where every platform sits and why no single engine wins everywhere.

sync-engines local-first distributed-systems architecture real-timeOct 31, 2024