Introducing the v0.6 release of ElectricSQL. A local-first sync layer that you can use to build reactive, realtime, offline-capable apps directly on Postgres.

We're excited to share that Electric is now backed by Andrei Miulescu, and Oleksii Sholik has joined us as a founding engineer!

Local-first software is the future. It's the natural evolution of state-transfer. It enables a modern, realtime multi-user experience, with built in offline support, resilience, privacy and data ownership. You get instant reactivity and a network-free interaction path. Plus it's much cheaper to operate and scale.

As we begin the new year, we’re thrilled to share the exciting news that José Valim, the creator of Elixir has joined Electric as an angel investor, and that world-class distributed systems expert Kevin De Porre and seasoned startup engineering veteran Garry Hill have joined Electric as founding engineers.

Web development has been progressing through an evolution of state transfer. Local-first is the natural endgame and the vision we're working towards with Electric.

In this post we explore the assumptions that distributed databases are based on and investigate how causal consistency fits the reality of a relativistic universe.

Rich-CRDTs are conflict-free data types (“CRDTs”) extended to provide additional (“Rich”) database guarantees. These guarantees, such as constraints and referential integrity, make building local-first applications much simpler.