We've been conditioned to accept that the software we write only runs if we pay our Amazon bill and that the software we rely on can disappear one day because someone else didn't. We've lowered our expectations, too. Our software can only be so fast when it runs on a computer on the other side of the world.
It doesn't have to be like this. We can have the benefits of the cloud with fewer disadvantages by thinking local. In this talk we'll look at the research Ink & Switch has been conducting into local-first software: software that prioritizes your experience on your computer. We've combined web technologies, recent breakthroughs in computer science, and peer-to-peer data distribution to show how you can build software with real-time collaboration at every level that never goes offline because it runs on your computer. Best of all, by reducing the incidental complexity in development, we believe we can enable developers everywhere to accomplish more with less.