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News, engineering deep-dives, and updates from the DXOS team.

Decentralized schema and data migration
July 3, 2024
Decentralized schema and data migration

Changing the data structures of production applications can be complex and error prone.

By Rich Burdon
Announcing DXOS Agents
June 26, 2024
Announcing DXOS Agents

DXOS is launching a fully-managed service to host agents.

By Rich Burdon
Why we're building a super-app
June 6, 2024
Why we're building a super-app

Composer is an open source "Super App" that provides teams with a fully customizable and extensible environment.

By Rich Burdon
User invitations in local-first collaborative applications
May 21, 2024
User invitations in local-first collaborative applications

HALO is a decentralized identity and access control protocol that makes it easier to build collaborative applications.

By Rich Burdon
What is "Cloudless" software?
April 29, 2024
What is "Cloudless" software?

There are still signaling servers for peer discovery, but all data exchange happens peer-to-peer, and no servers have access to the data.

By Rich Burdon
January 2024 Recap
February 1, 2024
January 2024 Recap

A roundup of DXOS progress in January 2024, including comments and threads, a new plugin registry, and updates to the ECHO protocol.

By Rich Burdon
December 2023 Recap
December 30, 2023
December 2023 Recap

Explore the power of the Effect ecosystem and community with us in Vienna, Austria on February 22-24.

By Rich Burdon
November 2023 Recap
December 1, 2023
November 2023 Recap

We proposed a "hub & spoke" networking model to work alongside the peer to peer model in data-sovereign sync scenarios.

By Rich Burdon
October 2023 Recap
November 3, 2023
October 2023 Recap

Drag and drop in Composer.

By Rich Burdon
September 2023 Recap
October 6, 2023
September 2023 Recap

September was an eventful month. The DXOS team traveled to St. Louis and attended Strange Loop and a Local-first Software Unconference. We also completed some major protocol upgrades and overhauled Composer, massively improving the drag-n-drop behavior, and rolling out new plu...

By Rich Burdon
DXOS at Local-First Software Unconference 2023
October 1, 2023
DXOS at Local-First Software Unconference 2023

The day after Strange Loop, Saturday, September 23, DXOS sponsored an unconference for local-first software.

By Rich Burdon
August 2023 Recap
September 7, 2023
August 2023 Recap

August was a busy month at DXOS, focused on performance improvements, a sleeker Composer with a batch of fresh plugins, and gearing up for Strange Loop. Let's jump in.

By Rich Burdon
Announcing the DXOS Technical Preview
June 21, 2023
Announcing the DXOS Technical Preview

DXOS is announcing a Technical Preview of our developer platform for building beautiful, local-first, collaborative applications.

By Rich Burdon