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Aaron Boodman

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CEO @rocicorp. Building @zero__ms, raising two great kids, trying to be a better person. Past: @replicache, @nomsdb, @googlechrome.
Hawaii, USA
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    Aaron Boodman
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    Oct 29, 2025
    Sync engines enable instantly responsive UI. But the tradeoff is usually slow startup because all data must be pre-loaded. Zero's query-driven sync enables precise control over when data syncs. To demonstrate, we scaled our "zbugs" demo up to 2.5M rows. Introducing Gigabugs:
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    Aaron Boodman
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    Aug 10
    One of the big things we learned from Replicache was that users *loved* being able to use their existing database and stack. It was a *lot* more work to design @zero__ms so that it sits in front of an existing standard database. It would have been so much easier to make it a
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    Aaron Boodman
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    Aug 10
    Replying to @aldexdev
    Thanks for the reference @aldexdev - we have tried to avoid lock-in by: - We front normal postgres with normal schemas. You can always just go back to plain APIs without changing db or schema. - In fact, there are at least two other sync engines (powersync, electric) that work
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    Aaron Boodman
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    Aug 6
    Abstraction is ultimately about responsibility. And responsibility is a very human need. I think AI changes where the boundaries will be, but not need for such boundaries. People will still pay so that they have a neck to wring.
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    Aaron Boodman
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    Aug 6
    This is interesting. I respect @artman a lot but have almost exact opposite intuition. > Higher level code, frameworks, and libraries are for humans Definitely today, they are marketed at and optimized for humans. But I think it's wrong to therefore surmise that AI gets no
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    Aaron Boodman
    @aboodman
    Aug 6
    This is interesting. I respect @artman a lot but have almost exact opposite intuition. > Higher level code, frameworks, and libraries are for humans Definitely today, they are marketed at and optimized for humans. But I think it's wrong to therefore surmise that AI gets no