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Local-First Software Is Easier to Scale

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175 points chilipepperhott | 1 comments | 05 Jul 25 15:54 UTC | HN request time: 0.245s | source
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myflash13 ◴[05 Jul 25 17:30 UTC] No.44474202[source]▶
Closest thing to true “serverless”: entire MVC app (Django/Rails/Laravel) in the browser with WASM and data persistence by SQLite over CDN.

All the server has to do then is serve binaries, all the business logic is in the client.

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gjsman-1000 ◴[05 Jul 25 17:31 UTC] No.44474217[source]▶
Brilliant… but now you need to validate that the client did all their business logic correctly without tampering. That alone can be so complex it defeats the point.
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justinrubek ◴[05 Jul 25 17:49 UTC] No.44474340[source]▶
No... you don't need that. Not for the overwhelmingly vast majority of cases. Let people use their own software. Tampering? Not my problem. Let people do it if they want.
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kevmo314 ◴[05 Jul 25 18:33 UTC] No.44474599[source]▶
Anything that involves sharing data with other people will run into issues around updating. If your API surface is a shipped sqlite db instead of an API call it's liable to be abused in so many ways.
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1. a_wild_dandan ◴[05 Jul 25 19:14 UTC] No.44474844[source]▶
Local-first doesn't mean local-only though, yeah? Isolate cloud usage to those collaborative features. If that's a huge ask, then your thingy probably isn't the kind of tool we're talking about localizing here!