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Adam Wiggins discusses the concept of 'local-first' architecture and its implications for software development and collaboration.

In this episode, Heroku co-founder and Ink & Switch founder Adam Wiggins argues for a 'local-first' architecture that reconciles cloud-based collaboration with the performance and data ownership of local software. He explores the role of CRDTs and version control primitives in non-code domains, and examines how a hybrid AI future might leverage local models for core productivity tasks, challenging the current over-reliance on centralised cloud compute. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/4gkg6m7 Newsletter: Subscribe to the Software Architects' Newsletter, a monthly roundup of the patterns and technologies senior practitioners are working through, with the news and lessons from people doing the work: https://www.infoq.com/software-architects-newsletter InfoQ Online Certification Programs: 5-week online cohorts for senior engineers and architects, built around QCon talks. Programs now cover software architecture, AI engineering, and organizational architecture. Each week you join a four-hour live session with a confidential peer group of practitioners from other companies, apply frameworks from QCon talks to the decisions you're making at work, and earn an InfoQ…

People in this episode

Guest: Adam Wiggins

Topics covered

• local-first architecture
• cloud-based collaboration
• data ownership
• CRDTs
• version control
• AI future
• hybrid models

Keywords

• local-first
• cloud-native
• CRDTs
• data ownership
• AI productivity
• version control
• hybrid models

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Organizations: Heroku, Ink & Switch, InfoQ

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