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.

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Electric has released its BETA version 1.0.0-beta.1 of their Postgres sync engine, allowing real-time partial replication of Postgres data into local apps and services. It simplifies building apps with instant, real-time, local data and includes support for PGlite, a lightweight WASM Postgres for the browser. Electric has been tested in production with companies like Supabase, Trigger.dev, Otto, and Doorboost. The platform scales to millions of concurrent users with low latency and offers easy integration with existing APIs. Documentation and interactive demos are available to help users get started.

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