S7:E5 - What does it mean to be offline-first? (Carmen Bourlon)
Not everyone has fast internet, or access to internet at all. Carmen tells us all about the offline-first movement and how we can build products that are more accessible.
Not everyone has fast internet, or access to internet at all. It might be because it's too expensive, or simply that the infrastructure isn't there. Whatever the reason, high-speed internet isn't as universal as we might think. But what does that mean for developers? How do we build products that work even without fast internet? Carmen breaks it down and tells us all about the offline-first movement. We've also got an episode of Tales from the Command Line that's all about what offline-first means at the infrastructure level.
Show Links
- TwilioQuest (sponsor)
- DevDiscuss (sponsor)
- DevNews (sponsor)
- Career Karma (sponsor)
- Cockroach Labs (sponsor)
- Pew Research article on rural Americans
- Pew Research article on the homework gap
- Pew Research Internet/Broadband Fact Sheet
- Margie Map
- American Community Survey (ACS)
- Offline First
- IndexedDB
- Raspberry Pi
- Codeland Conf
- Codeland 2019
Carmen Bourlon
Carmen is a fullstack Javascript developer living in Oklahoma City. She is very excited about offline tech, especially service workers. In her spare time, Carmen builds MargieMap, a map visualizing income to library access.