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Thomas Ballinger

Thomas Ballinger

Tom Ballinger is a software engineer at Convex. He's taught compiler and computer architecture courses and facilitated at the Recurse Center primarily by goading people into writing BitTorrent clients. He's going to switch from vim to VSCode any day now.
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Rendering Data That Disagree
React Advanced 2024React Advanced 2024
11 min
Rendering Data That Disagree
The data returned from one endpoint to a frontend app should reflect the state of the world at a (recent!) point in time in the past. But it may not! And the data returned from multiple endpoints often reflects the state of the world at multiple points. What can be done, and what should be done? What's the worse that could happen, and what's the worse that reasonably, probably going to happen?

Let's talk through the tradeoffs, look at how some some teams approach it, and hear how much they actually care.
state management