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QCon London 2026: Kleppmann on Mitigating Europe's Cloud Dependency with Local-First Software
Europe is completely dependent on US cloud services, Martin Kleppmann told QCon London. His fix: commoditise everything. He walked through three technologies he's helped build: multi-cloud via de facto standards, Bluesky's AT Protocol for social media, and local-first software for collaboration, all designed to make switching providers trivial and shift power back to users. InfoQ · infoq.com
Where truth lives in local-first systems: Electric, Zero, and LiveStore compared, the merge-vs-refuse conflict line, and the apps that still need a server.
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