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Leonard
Hi everyone,
Our blog was a long time coming and I’m excited to finally see it up here ready for postings!
What do I do at Syncplicity? During the day, I figure out what you – our users – want from Syncplicity. I take all your feedback and use it to decide what our product needs next and what shape our new features need to take. I’m the guy who loves to get emails, forum replies, and blog comments from you because they make my job so much for fun, not to mention so much easier!
The rest of my time is spent making sure Syncplicity fulfills its promise of bridging your desktop and the web. We envision a future where it won’t matter where you store and work with your files – we want that to be something you don’t even have to think about. After all, why shouldn’t you be free to use the best tool for the job in the best environment possible? Whether that tool is a desktop application or an online Web 2.0 site, or whether that environment is your desktop or your browser, Syncplicity will make sure your data is everywhere it needs to be.
We have a lot in store for the future and I can’t wait to start sharing that with you, discussing your ideas and suggestions, and hearing from you about what works and what doesn’t. Looking forward to catching up with you on our forums!
Ondrej
Allow me to introduce myself: I’m Isaac. Today, the database, a few back-end systems, and the website are my focus. Let me tell you a little about what makes this pretty darn interesting from a DBA perspective:
The Syncplicity database is pretty incredible. Most website databases perform a lot of read operations and a few writes, mainly to maintain a little state information about the user. I think 10 - 100 KB is more than enough state information per user for almost any web database. However, the Syncplicity database is nothing like that. Our databases have quickly grown to triple digit GBs in size as we synchronize your files across all your computers. That’s a lot of state and a lot of writing. Pretty incredible! And, we’re scaling very well to handle the load. So, keep it coming!
Feel free to contact me thru the comments, forums, or Contact page if there’s something you’d like to know. We’ve got some exciting information in the works… stay tuned!
Cheers,
Isaac - VP of Technology
On behalf of the Syncplicity team, welcome to the Syncplicity blog!
We will be posting the latest and greatest news, useful tips and tricks, and some of our thoughts so you can see some of our thinking as Syncplicity grows and moves out of beta.
Along with myself, Syncplicity’s other co-founders, Ondrej and Isaac, will be posting on here as well. They’ll be introducing themselves shortly.
We have some topics lined up over the next few weeks, but if you have any questions or topics you’re interested in, post up a message in the Syncplicity Forums. We’ll be taking interesting questions and hot topics from the forums and covering them in more detail here.
I’m very excited about this new blog. It’s my hope that you’ll find this informative and have as much fun reading it as we have writing it!
Leonard Chung - CEO