Scaling the Linear Sync Engine

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saqadri · 2023-11 · Recommendation

You may not need CRDT per-se, but building a collaborative experience is so difficult. I worked on collaborative systems for a bit, and also have read a bit about how Figma and Notion do it (this is a good read: [LINK] ) -- it's still super hard to get right. This talk by Karri about Linear's "sync engine" is also a good watch: [VIDEO] .

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YousefED · 2023-10 · Recommendation

This article has been quite the inspiration for many projects and progress on this front. I think we're seeing more and more developments around CRDTs and local-first frameworks / applications. I'm working on a few projects in this area: - [LINK] - Notion meets Notebook-style live programming for TypeScript / React - [LINK] - a rich text editor built on TipTap / Prosemirror that supports Yjs for local-first collaboration - [LINK] - a wrapper around Yjs for easier development In my experience so far, some things get more complicated when building a local-first application, and some things get a lot easier. What gets easier is that once you've modeled and implemented the data-layer (which does require you to rethink / unlearn a few principles), you don't need to worry about data-fetching, errors etc. as much as in a regular "API-based" app. Another interesting video I recommend on this topic is about Linear's "Sync Engine" which employs some of the local-first techniques as well: [VIDEO]

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probabletrain · 2025-03 · Reference

> Previous sync engines really want you to sync all data Linear had to do all sorts of shenanigans to be able to sync all data, for orgs with lots of it – there's a talk on that here: [VIDEO]

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