Local-First in Production — FOSDEM 2026 Recap
by m-palanikannan
Shipping CRDTs to real users teaches lessons no demo can: save the binary as source of truth, never overwrite—always merge, and build fallbacks for when WebSockets inevitably die.
by m-palanikannan
Shipping CRDTs to real users teaches lessons no demo can: save the binary as source of truth, never overwrite—always merge, and build fallbacks for when WebSockets inevitably die.
by alexander-thiele
When your users spend entire days in forests with zero connectivity, local-first isn't a nice-to-have — it's the only architecture that works. OCELL's sync queue proves the pattern, but cascading failures from a single invalid GeoJSON reveal sync's hardest unsolved problem.