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How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown

Found on 7 June 2026 via Mastodon 548

via Hacker News 100 (@hn100@social.lansky.name): How’s Linear so fast? A technical breakdown

Dennis Brotzky reverse-engineers the architectural decisions that make Linear feel instantaneous: a real database (IndexedDB) in the browser, local-first mutations that render synchronously, and a sync engine that pushes deltas over WebSockets in the background. It’s a good tour of the local-first playbook — the core insight being that the fastest network request is the one you never make.

How’s Linear so fast? A technical breakdown

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