Swarm: an isomorphic database

[gritzko]

The future of computation increasingly looks like swarms of wirelessly connected devices working together. In such a world, may an app run at many devices at once? We already experience that effect quite often. Collaborative apps naturally run at many devices at once. Even single user apps need to sync if used at multiple devices. Isomorphic apps pre-render on the server side, then get airlifted to the client. The trend is accelerating: apps span devices.

JavaScript is a perfect tool for delivering code to any edge devices: Web, mobile, desktop, server-side and embedded -- all platforms run JavaScript these days. Once the code is delivered, how can we sync data? What about real-time sync? Offline and caching?

Swarm is a sync-centric isomorphic database that targets that use case. Swarm applies an advanced distributed systems toolset to fulfill its guiding vision: write distributed apps as easily as local apps. Let apps span device borders, like they are parts of one big distributed application.

On the science side, the talk is about partially ordered logs of immutable ops, CRDTs and asynchrony. But there will be code and cool demos too.

[gritzko]

The description may be to abstract, so here is an example of a past talk on a close subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDBkoixNgKs