Evolu's blind-relay sync, run through the same 8 offline-first failure modes
Evolu's blind-relay sync, run through the same 8 offline-first failure modes I keep a short checklist of the ways offline-first sync actually breaks in production. Eight items, in the order they bite. I already ran RxDB's replication design through it. This time I ran Evolu, because it makes the opposite bet: instead of a smart backend and a dumb checkpoint, Evolu keeps a replicated change log…
Evolu's blind-relay sync runs through the same 8 offline-first failure modes as RxDB, but inverts their approach to handle them. Evolu keeps a replicated change log and makes the server blind, while RxDB uses a smart backend and a dumb checkpoint. The key differences lie in how the protocol handles operation identity, sync queue drain, deletes, conflict rules, local IDs, and partial apply.
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