Realtime Collaboration in the Wild
Hardware hacker uses Fireproof to create a serverless web-based drum machine for real time collaboration on group bicycle rides.
Latest blog posts
NodeConfEU 2024 Recap
Fireproof participated in Europe's longest-running, beloved Node.js conference in Ireland, along with 200 others for three days of talks and workshops on open source innovation, performance optimization, and software quality.
IoT Enables The Energy Transformation
With the world’s energy infrastructure becoming increasingly software driven, cybersecurity is more important than ever.
State Management for AI Agents
AI agents are powerful tools for automating tasks and making decisions, but they need to manage their state effectively to perform well. This article explores the challenges of state management for AI agents and how Fireproof can help.
Live data anywhere
Fireproof is an embedded database that brings seamless live sync to any infrastructure, allowing developers to build rich, local-first, collaborative apps.
Roadmap Update Q3 2024
Cloud launch is coming soon
In-flight service requires reliability at the edge
Ensuring continuous availability for in-flight services with local-first collaboration tools
Take Control of Your Own Performance
Web apps built using local first principles provide responsive, fluid user interfaces that people love. Utilized by high profile mega-hits such as Canva, Figma, and Notion, local first is getting quite a bit of attention. This article explores how Fireproof builds on existing concepts to create a new type of 'data anywhere' application.
Trade Up To Fireproof
Being a professional trader is a demanding job. One thing a trader can do to increase their chances of success is utilize the right tools. Fireproof is part of a rising trend – software from the ‘local first’ movement that’s being adopted in financial circles. Fireproof offers two key benefits: accelerated application performance, which results in faster, more accurate trades, and the peace of mind that comes with knowing your financial research and strategies are safely stored on hardware you control. For professional traders looking to get ahead in their intensely competitive profession, there aren’t many other moves available that can offer such impressive results.
The Shift to Object Storage in Modern Databases
Object storage has evolved significantly, becoming crucial for modern databases. It offers scalability, flexibility, and cost-efficiency for handling large volumes of unstructured data. Databases like Fireproof leverage object storage for features such as content addressing and end-to-end encryption, ensuring data integrity and security across diverse environments.
QuickCheck: Print checks at home
Selem Delul was surprised by how often he needed to write checks after moving to the US, so he created a simple app, QuickCheck, to print them at home, leveraging Fireproof for secure, offline-capable data management.
Data Provenance In Every Click
Imagine a data storage system that automatically keeps track of provenance for each piece of data – where it came from, who created it and when, whether it has changed since being created, if so when and by whom. It would be useful in many scenarios – the greater the value of the data itself, the more important its provenance. In the world of finance, data provenance is often critical, especially when high-stakes decisions are being made. This article explores additional specific benefits to the Fireproof system architecture previously outlined, and how each one can be implemented.
Use Case: Hedge fund strategy approval workflow for live trading desk
A cryptographically secure trading desk system leverages local-first architecture and immutable logging to ensure instant, confidential strategy execution with bulletproof accountability.
Contributor Spotlight: Meno Abels
Read about contributor Meno Abels who has refactored Fireproof's core database engine, enhanced our TypeScript structure to support dynamic runtimes, implemented a pluggable storage system, and worked on a new connector gateway.
Use Case Spotlight: Provable event data recorder with priority delivery
Modern vehicles collect event data to enhance safety, using cryptographic proofs to ensure data integrity and security. Event Data Recorders (EDRs) capture critical information during incidents, providing valuable insights for safety improvements and analysis. By prioritizing data uploads and leveraging cryptographic proofs, manufacturers can enhance safety features and protect user privacy.
Kingdoms Forged In Fire
As we enter the AI era, there’s another important trend underway – the shifting development focus to the frontend, keeping data near the users, where it is created and used.
Beyond the Cloud
Roadmap for Fireproof Cloud features
Welcome to the Team
Read about goals and principles that align our efforts.
How Fireproof Can Optimize Your Online Customer Experience
Fireproof is a real-time database designed for web applications. It enables top-tier customer experiences while managing costs & mitigating risk, by shifting key data workloads to the user application instance.
Contributor Spotlight: Dhruv Soni
Fireproof's first Connectors Engineer brings a blend of talent and enthusiasm to the team. He appreciates our developer-friendly approach, and his current focus is on enhancing Fireproof's Chrome extension. He sees growing community involvement and looks forward to pursuing graduate studies in software engineering.
Roadmap Update
Progress and Plans on the Road to 1.0
Contributor Spotlight: Daniel Sanchez, Solid
Solid developer makes Solid adapter for Fireproof.
Simple Apps with Solid and Fireproof
Empowering developers who want better UX and application performance.
Accountability for AI copilots
AI copilots can be risky, especially without proper oversight. Fireproof's unforgeable sync makes AI safety logging simple and cheap.
From Local-First to Data Anywhere: Fireproof in 2023
Where we started, and how far we've come
Remote-Access CRDT-Wrapped Multi-Writer-Enabled Immutable File Format
This article explains the concept of a two-layer CRDT and its implementation in Fireproof, focusing on the outer CRDT and its role in the system.
Roadmap to 1.0
One year of development has taught us about the features that are most important to our users.
Why Verifiable CRDTs Are the Future of Web Data
CRDTs, when combined with immutable, content-addressed data, are game-changers for web development.
Beta is available
Take a closer look at the quickest way to add live data to your app.
Streamlining Database Development to Eliminate the Innovation Bottleneck
As apps get easier to write, databases struggle to keep up. Learn how Fireproof solves this problem.
The Fireproof Effect
Fireproof presents developers with a means to prototype and validate their application's utility prior to committing to complex infrastructure setups. With Fireproof’s location independence and end-to-end encryption, apps can be enterprise-ready as soon as they're functional, transforming React into a build-first platform that simplifies the journey to a secure, enterprise-ready application.
0.6.0 release - React hooks, Sync, Encryption
React hooks, sync and encryption released, big dataset support, cloud services, and React server components coming soon.
From MLOps to point-of-sale: Merkle proofs and data locality
Get inside Merkle Trees, CRDTs, and Prolly Trees, and understand their applications in AI, blockchain, supply chain management, etc. Learn how location-independent data is making applications faster, cheaper, and more reliable.
Understanding the Fireproof Value Proposition
Simple explanation of the Fireproof value proposition.
Build React apps with ChatGPT
Step-by-step tutorial for building React apps with ChatGPT 3.5 or 4.
How to build apps with ChatGPT
AI is even better at writing code when you point it in the right direction.
User-owned and user-controlled data
As data privacy and ownership concerns grow, a new wave of applications and infrastructure projects is emerging, focused on putting control back into the hands of users.
Great opportunites to use Fireproof
Verifiable data makes so many use-cases more relaxing.
Why proofs matter for AI
Boosting reproducibility, accelerating data processing, enhancing security, and enabling efficient collaboration