James Arthur
thruflo.com
James Arthur
@thruflo.com
CEO & Co-founder @electric-sql.com
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Full lineup and schedule for @syncconf.bsky.social in SF on Nov 12. Link in the 🧵 below 👇
October 24, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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If you find yourself in SF next week, @almog.xyz is talking about SlateDB at the SF Systems Meetup on Wednesday!
SF Systems Meetup: Databases and Stateful Apps · Luma
The SF Systems Meetup is back with a pair of talks giving us a peek at the future of state management! This month, we're excited to have talks from Almog Gavra…
luma.com
October 21, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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🎮 Like CRDTs and videogames? @inkandswitch.com is ✨hiring✨ for a project that combines @automerge.org with @godotengine.org to make the next generation of collaboration tools for game development!

More detail here: inkandswitch.com/jobs/godot-i...

(Fully remote 🌍🌎🌏 contract, late Nov to April)
Godot IDE Engineer
Help build native, visual version control for collaborative game development in Godot
inkandswitch.com
October 15, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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The panel at Sync Conf 2025 brings together @tannerlinsley.com, @jamescowling.dev, @schickling.dev and @aaronboodman.com for a deep dive into challenges and tradeoffs between the technical approaches being explored in sync today.
October 10, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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It was agonizing to choose from among the 34 excellent submissions, but here are the four talks selected from our CFP process!
October 7, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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James Arthur @thruflo.com is building @electric-sql.com, the sync engine behind @tanstack.com and @elixir-lang.org. At Sync Conf 2025, he’ll kick things off with an intro on why sync matters for AI apps and agentic systems, including a demo of sync-based software in action.
October 1, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Sync seems to be having a moment among web developers!
September 4, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Our second #special is out.

Following the great success of @localfirstconf.com in Berlin, we're excited to share more about the vision for SyncConf 2025 in SF.

Full episode links and show notes in the comments.
September 2, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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I keep getting into conversations with engineers where I talk about how desperately I want my database to support materialized views with incremental updates and too often I get a blank stare in response.

so I wrote a new post about why you should care! sophiebits.com/2025/08/22/m...
Materialized views are obviously useful
sophiebits.com
August 23, 2025 at 1:36 AM
One day boutique conference for the sync era of the web. Hear from the world's top builders about how to develop systems in the era of agentic software and real-time sync.
Announcing Sync Conf 2025. Join us in SF on Nov 12th.
August 19, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Announcing Sync Conf 2025. Join us in SF on Nov 12th.
August 19, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Agentic AI, beneath all the hype, is actually just normal software. You can build agentic systems with a database, standard web tooling and real-time sync.
August 14, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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I'm sure if it weren’t for AI, the web dev community would be talking a lot more about sync engines and TanStack DB right now.

I just published a short video + blog post to share why I’m so excited about TanStack DB and ElectricSQL!

youtu.be/OKHYUISDYmk
August 7, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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TanStack DB with Sync provides an exciting new way to add end-to-end reactivity to your web applications, including optimistic UI updates. 🧵
August 7, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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ElectricSQL recently completed a 120-day reliability sprint. Our one goal: make our sync engine so boring-reliable you stop thinking about it and just build.

We chased every incident, fixed every user-reported bug, and made unglamorous work our priority. 🧵
August 4, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I know I wrote the blog post but holy fuck this is good.
July 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Paired with Electric, TanStack DB provides an optimal end-to-end sync stack for local-first app development.

electric-sql.com/blog/2025/07...
Local-first sync with TanStack DB and Electric | ElectricSQL
Tanstack DB is a reactive client store for building super fast apps on sync. Paired with Electric, it provides an optimal end-to-end sync stack for local-first app development.
electric-sql.com
July 29, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Tanstack DB is a reactive client store for building super fast apps on sync.

Based on a TypeScript implementation of differential dataflow, it's type-safe, declarative, incrementally adoptable and insanely fast.
July 29, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Very excited to have reached the Beta milestone with @tanstack.com DB 🚀🎉
It’s been a privilege to work with @tannerlinsley.com and the team on building this, absolute rock stars!
July 29, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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TanStack DB is now in BETA!

We’ve been working on TanStack DB, an embedded, reactive client database for TanStack Query, and are proud to announce today that with the 0.1 release that it's now in BETA!

tanstack.com/blog/tanstac...
Stop Re-Rendering — TanStack DB, the Embedded Client Database for TanStack Query | TanStack Blog
Your React dashboard shouldn't grind to a halt just because one TODO turns from ☐ to ☑. Yet every optimistic update still kicks off a cascade of re-renders, filters, useMemos and spinner flashes. If y...
tanstack.com
July 29, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Rare opportunity! Come work at Ink & Switch. Help us make Automerge the best substrate for experimental programming tools and production software alike.
Do you write TypeScript? Enjoy Automerge? Love building both tools and community? You might be a great fit for our ✨new✨ Automerge TypeScript Maintainer role!

www.inkandswitch.com/jobs/automer...

(Remote role, 🇬🇧 UK-based preferred but not required)
Automerge TypeScript Maintainer
Industrial research lab working on digital tools for creativity and productivity
www.inkandswitch.com
July 23, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Never thought I'd see that day, but thanks to AI, @tanstack.com react-query now has, for the first time ever, more downloads than react-redux 🤯
July 18, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Building apps on Postgres? Here how to do it using sync: youtu.be/mDzzK5-XkZ8?...
"Syncing Postgres into the Client" with James Arthur
YouTube video by San Francisco Bay Area PostgreSQL Users Group
youtu.be
July 3, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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Excited to release a new starter! Sync-first, production-ready, and blazing fast

- @tanstack.com Start
- @tanstack.com DB for blazing fast client-side queries
- @electric-sql.com for real-time sync from PG
- Better-Auth
- @drizzleorm.bsky.social
- @tailwindcss.com
- Hono OpenAPI
July 2, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Not long now!
lu.ma/sync-london

Talks are shaping up great and we’re well past venue capacity. @yonz.bsky.social is airborne. @samwillis.uk has sorted out the pineapple cubes and cocktail sausages.

If you’re in London on Tuesday and have been lurking so far, now’s your last chance!
Sync London · Luma
Interesting in building products on a local-first / sync engine architecture? Come along to the first Sync London, a meetup to learn and talk about better ways…
lu.ma
June 29, 2025 at 6:31 PM