Freeing up data and collaboration via the mesh
Last weekend, during the ALT.NET Seattle conference, I spoke for quite a while with Miguel de Icaza on the work we're doing with InSTEDD in the area of data synchronization. He was very excited, and wondered how come this wasn't more broadly known.
I realized that I hadn't blogged about it in a while, and it seems to me that this seemingly niche technology isn't getting the broad publicity it deserves. So I'll try to explain in simple terms what it is, and why it matters in many, many scenarios.
Imagine you have an application (mobile or desktop), which can be partially connected, and needs to synchronize data with a server, bi-directionally. That's not very innovative or disruptive, is it? Of course NOT. We have been doing this with various degrees of success and complexity for years....