The latest news and updates from Electric.
James Arthur
Electric is now part of Databricks. We're joining Neon to make Lakebase the best platform for building apps and agents. Everything we've open sourced stays open source.
Valter Balegas
Electric Circuits is a new primitive that turns any static database query into a live one. Register a query and a circuit keeps its result updated as the database changes.
We're releasing a new Durable Streams reference server implemented in Rust. It reaches nearly a million operations per second on a single 4vCPU machine. Here's how we've built it.
Sam Willis
PGlite has reached 10 million weekly npm downloads. Here's how a small Postgres-in-WASM experiment became a widely used embedded Postgres project, and where it goes next.
Electric Agents 0.6 is out today. The release adds runtime and SDK primitives for building agent systems, plus in-development desktop and mobile devtools for inspecting and controlling them.
Every major AI platform just shipped managed agents on the same kind of sandbox-based architecture. That's wrong. Managed agents belong in functions, not sandboxes.
Kyle Mathews
Introducing Electric Agents, the agent platform built on sync. Use it to build scalable, collaborative multi-agent systems that integrate into your online systems.
Can Doom run on Durable Streams? Absolutely! The result: live streaming, rewinding, and fork — branch any session at any point and you're instantly back in the game.
Fork adds branching to Durable Streams. Branch any stream at any point — rewind history, fan out agents, or probe without polluting context.
Agents are stateful. The agent loop accumulates a new kind of data that needs a new kind of primitive. Durable Streams is that primitive.
What if an AI agent could be a real-time CRDT peer? Where the agent has its own cursor, streams edits into a live Yjs document, and the whole thing runs on Durable Streams.
We've released a new Yjs provider built on Durable Streams — sync fan-out and fast catch-up from the edge for collaborative and agentic systems. Now live on Electric Cloud.
Electric Cloud now has self-serve pricing. Pay for writes and retention — reads and data delivery are free. Most simple apps will run for free on PAYG.
StreamDB turns a Durable Stream into a reactive database. You provide a Standard Schema, StreamDB gives you type‑safe, durable state with sync.
TanStack DB 0.6 is a major update for Electric users. Persistence and includes make the Electric + TanStack DB stack more app-ready while staying incrementally adoptable.
Tudor Zaharia
PGlite v0.4 ships PostGIS, connection multiplexing, and a major architecture refactor. This post covers what changed and what comes next for embedded Postgres.
We've released Durable Streams based transport and session integrations for TanStack AI and the Vercel AI SDK. With turnkey hosting on Electric Cloud.
We've been collaborating with TanStack to ship agent skills in our npm packages. Run one command to give your agent deep knowledge of Electric, TanStack DB and Durable Streams.
Multi-agent systems are delivering real throughput gains — but the teams seeing the biggest speedups share a pattern. A law from 1967 explains why.
AI makes code cheap. The scarce asset is the system's self-knowledge. Configurancy is the layer that lets agents coherently co-evolve a system.
Hosted durable streams are live on Electric Cloud. You can now sync and stream AI sessions and low-latency real-time data alongside structured database changes.
Four years ago, building a collaborative parametric CAD app was completely out of reach for a solo developer. I built one in a week, using the Electric stack and coding agents.
As the world moves to getting things done through agents, products need to combine AI with team-based collaboration. Durable Sessions are the best way to do that.
The first official npm release of Durable Streams, introducing the State Protocol for database-style sync semantics, improved conformance tests and community experiments.
Introducing Durable Streams, an open protocol for persistent, addressable, real-time streams, based on a generalization of the battle-tested Electric sync protocol.
Ilia Borovitinov
A behind‑the‑scenes look at Electric's new storage engine: why we built it, how it works, and how it improves performance in production.
Agentic AI, beneath all the hype, is actually just normal software. You can build agentic systems with a database, standard web tooling and real-time sync.
Our last quarter was a reliability sprint. We set one goal: make ElectricSQL so boring‑reliable that you stop thinking about it and just build.
Tanstack DB is a reactive client store for building super fast apps on sync. Paired with Electric, it provides an optimal end-to-end sync stack for local-first app development.
More play less infra. With PGlite you can vibe code with a database built into the sandbox.
LLMs are generating code. That code is imperatively fetching data. That leads to a big ball of spaghetti.
AI apps are collaborative. Building them requires solving resumability, interruptibility, multi‑tab, multi‑device and multi‑user.
Electric Cloud is now in public BETA! This means it's open to everyone for immediate access.
With version 1.0 Electric is now in GA. The APIs are stable and the sync engine is ready for mission critical, production apps.
With version 1.0.0-beta.1, the Electric sync engine is now in BETA! If you haven't checked out Electric recently, it's a great time to take another look.
Local-first is often seen as eliminating your API. But what if you like your API or need to keep it as part of your stack? This post shows how you can develop local-first apps incrementally, using your existing API.
Electric Next is a new approach that we've adopted to building Electric. One that's informed by the lessons learned building the previous system and inspired by new insight from Kyle Mathews.
Version 0.11 of ElectricSQL. This is the first release with support for syncing to Postgres in the client.
We've published version 0.10 of Electric. This is the first release that properly supports where-clause and include-tree filtering with Shape-based sync.
ElectricSQL was selected by Intel as one of 10 startups to participate in batch #6 of it's Intel Ignite accelerator programme in Munich.
Local AI with Postgres, pgvector and llama2, running inside a Tauri app with realtime sync powered by ElectricSQL 🤯 This is the architecture of the future!
Oleksii Sholik
We're kicking off the year with a fresh release of Electric that introduces a whole slew of improvements to the experience of configuring, deploying, and developing with Electric.
One of the most common questions we get asked about developing on ElectricSQL is how to do secure, confirmed transactions like bookings and payments.
Improved data model and deployment compatibility including JSON support and integration with popular Postgres hosts like Supabase and Digital Ocean.
Introducing Electric Appointments, a demo mobile app built with the Ionic Framework and Capacitor.
We're thrilled to have published version 0.7 of ElectricSQL, which includes the new migration proxy and extended type support.
Last Thursday, the Electric team was excited to host the first Local-first Software London meet-up.
Introducing Linearlite, a simplified, lightweight clone of Linear.app built with Electric.
Purva Gujar
Sam Willis has joined the team as a Founding Engineer.
Introducing the v0.6 release of ElectricSQL. A local-first sync layer that you can use to build reactive, realtime, offline-capable apps directly on Postgres.
Electric is now backed by Andrei Miulescu and Oleksii Sholik has joined us as a Founding Engineer.
Local-first software is the natural evolution of state-transfer. It enables a modern, realtime multi-user experience, with built in offline support, resilience, privacy and data ownership.
José Valim, the creator of Elixir, distributed systems expert Kevin De Porre and startup engineering veteran Garry Hill have joined Electric.
Web development has been progressing through an evolution of state transfer. Local-first is the natural endgame and the vision we're working towards with Electric.
In this post we explore the assumptions that distributed databases are based on and investigate how causal consistency fits the reality of a relativistic universe.
Rich-CRDTs are conflict-free data types (“CRDTs”) extended to provide additional (“Rich”) database guarantees. These guarantees, such as constraints and referential integrity, make building local-first applications much simpler.
James Arthur
