In his talk at Local-First Conf this year, Jess Martin gave the community a "yellow-minus" grade for the local-first principle of being "network optional", claiming strong existence proofs for offline access. But we're still missing the ability to interoperate without a network in place.

Sync problems inherently involve the network. This talk will take a cross-sectional look at different approaches to sync, evaluating existing tools from the perspective of both capacity for being network optional, and design tradeoffs that sync engines must make to preserve the property.

We'll pay particular attention to support for partial replication, throughput tradeoffs, consistency guarantees, and developer adoption challenges.

And of course, we'll do all of this while replicating memes. Many. many. memes.