Edge Apps and Elixir

[boris]

After @expede’s ElixirConf talk (blog post link coming soon), we’ve had a number of people stop by our Discord chat wanting to learn more.

We’re putting together an event, right now tentatively scheduled 2021-11-10T17:00:00Z, to have an open discussion and knowledge sharing about how local first, data at the edge apps can play nicely with Elixir, and what other tech stacks to add.

Resources

We’re going to get better about using the edge-computing tag to curate resources and articles. We don’t really use edge apps as a tag…because everything Fission does powers edge apps.

Tyler Jewell’s post from May 2021 is a giant overview that includes Fission:

Latency-Optimized Development, Tyler Jewell

With 5G, developers now vision the potential for low-latency applications. When round-trip latency drops below 8ms, applications with real-time interactions emerge: remote surgery; remote-controlled vehicle control; jitter-less lag-less AR/VR conferencing; and just-in-time manufacturing driven by continuous supply and demand updates. What are the developer-led landscape implications for the emergence of latency-optimized applications? Tyler Jewell does a survey of the edge computing lands…

Our friends at Ink & Switch wrote this inspiring post that we use as the basis of a lot of our thinking:

Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud - Ink & Switch

An article summarizing several years of research and prototyping on how principles of local first software can lead to increased user agency and data ownership. The Ink & Switch team built several prototypes, made a lot of use of Dat Protocol, and explored CRDTs as a fundamental building block for syncing / merging distributed data. In this article we propose “local-first software”: a set of principles for software that enables both collaboration and ownership for users. Local-first ideals i…