Leading edge: Sync solutions for connecting offline-apps

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Claims that enterprise cloud traffic falls from 90% to 25% drive a push to run and store more work on devices for privacy, latency, cost and offline resilience. Concrete sync options compared are REST/GraphQL and MQTT versus cloud-first Firestore and embedded DBs like Realm and ObjectBox. ObjectBox implements delta synchronization via a Git-like ObjectBox transaction log of hashed state transitions so clients exchange transaction IDs and receive only deltas; a working demo exists and alpha signups are open.

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1. 0:00Introduction to edge computing
2. 3:21Why edge computing now
3. 8:22Benefits of offline-first apps
4. 10:51Edge vs cloud balance
5. 13:21Sync solutions overview
6. 17:14ObjectBox sync demo

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