sync-engine

Encrypted Spaces is a research preview of an architecture for collaborative applications that ensures data is encrypted and operations are cryptographically verifiable, allowing servers to store data without being able to inspect plaintext. It includes a prototype sync engine and is developed with Microsoft Research and Harvard's Berkman Klein Center.

This article provides a technical breakdown of how the project management tool Linear achieves its fast performance by using a browser-side database (IndexedDB), local-first mutations, and a sync engine, eliminating network latency from user interactions.

GETadb.com offers an instant backend with a relational database, sync engine, and auth, accessible via a simple GET request without sign-up, allowing AI agents like Claude or Codex to build full-stack apps seamlessly.