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How to Sync Anything: Building a Sync Engine from Scratch — Part 2 posted Wednesday, April 16, 2025 by Jan Lehnardt CouchDBreplicationsyncdistsysdata

Note: This is part of our series demystifying synchronisation. See our other instalments: How to Sync Anything: Introduction and How to Sync Anything: Building a Sync Engine from Scratch — Part 1

In this part, we will learn how to efficiently find out what data needs to be synchronised.

How to Sync Anything: Building a Sync Engine from Scratch — Part 1 posted Wednesday, April 9, 2025 by Jan Lehnardt CouchDBreplicationsyncdistsysdata

There’s an old saying I paraphrased in this by now ancient tweet[sic]:

“Friends don’t let friends build their own {CRYPTO, SYNC, DATABASE}.” — @janl on September 24th, 2014

What do I mean by that?

How to Sync Anything posted Sunday, April 6, 2025 by James Coglan CouchDBreplicationsyncdistsysdata

In this article I’ll discuss a common naive solution to replication, why it doesn’t work, and what the building blocks of a good solution look like. Having established this theoretical framework, my next article will look at how CouchDB provides many of those building blocks such that replicating from it into any other system is relatively painless.

Offline-First with CouchDB and PouchDB in 2025 posted Wednesday, March 26, 2025 by The Neighbourhoodie Team tipCouchDBsyncoffline first

A few weeks ago, we gave you tooling to quickly and easily host your own CouchDB: CouchDB Minihosting! This week, we’re providing a demo application you can deploy on that installation, so you can try that part out with zero hassle. On top of that, consider this an up-to-date, best practises demo app for Offline-First with CouchDB and PouchDB. We’re using Svelte 5 with Vite as build tooling and Pico.css for styles.

From Dig Sites to Data Sync: iDAI.field and Offline-First Systems for Archaeology posted Thursday, March 20, 2025 by The Neighbourhoodie Team interviewCouchDBsynccase study

Reliable data collection during archaeological field work in remote locations comes with a multitude of challenges. Even in the most isolated dig sites, capturing, storing and synching need to happen seamlessly and with zero data loss. Offline-First can solve half the problem. What about the half that needs to bring together teams and findings from across the globe?