Can Local-First Really Scale at the Edge?

Explore the challenges and potential solutions of scaling local-first software at the edge in this 32-minute conference talk from ACM SIGPLAN. Delve into the concept of local-first software, which aims to empower users by allowing operations to be accepted locally with minimal latency and asynchronously propagated to other nodes or cloud infrastructure. Examine the impact on metadata size for complex data types like counters and causal CRDTs. Gain insights from speaker Carlos Baquero as he discusses the implications of this approach and proposes possible solutions to address the scalability concerns in edge computing environments.

[PLF23] Can local-first really scale at the edge?