Steve Marx
Developer Advocate, Dropbox
Steve Marx is a Developer Advocate at Dropbox. Before joining Dropbox, he built his own startup (Site44) on top of the Dropbox platform, and before that he worked on cloud computing at Microsoft.
Silicon Valley Code Camp : October 11th and 12th 2014Session
Syncing Is Hard
This talk will cover all the things you're probably NOT thinking about when rolling your own syncing engine, like offline caching, change notification, and advanced conflict resolution.
About This Session
If you're building a mobile app or a client-heavy HTML/JavaScript app, there's probably data that you manipulate locally on a device and also store on a server. That means you're syncing, and syncing is hard. This talk will cover all the things you're probably NOT thinking about when rolling your own syncing engine, like offline caching, change notification, and advanced conflict resolution. Drawing from his experience at Dropbox and Microsoft, Steve will discuss the thorny challenges and potential solutions for sync.
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