@janl and think it’s fantastic, “data mastering” is my new industry term and sync is at its core. Being able to run reports with current data or “data as it was” looking at reconciliation rules and decisions and modifying them as you go. It’s a wild space and sync is at its heart.

@janl It certainly is when in the presence of a network that is occasionally connected, or has very variable consistency. The user interaction business requirement for immediacy is the local bit. I was on a team that shipped a product with this model a good while back (2004 I think) specifically for sync-oriented comms to a backend catalog with early smartphone and laptops. The "app" on the device was frontend to filesystem sync space.