Before building Visor, we were betting against spreadsheets. That was a big mistake. Despite efforts to kill [https://www.wsj.com/articles/stop-using-excel-finance-chiefs-tell-staffs-1511346601] or replace [https://tomtunguz.com/unbundling-of-excel/] spreadsheets, they are alive
See how CloudStore, our internal architecture, lets the Visor team build 10x faster by reducing the need to write server code as we expand the product.
> “The future is already here – it’s just not evenly distributed.” - William Gibson, Science Fiction Novelist -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- At an early age, I witnessed how technology divides people into the techno-haves and the
The story behind the innovative graph database technology that runs Visor (Part 1 of 3) Visor's application database represents data as a graph that synchronizes itself. This has given our team incredible leverage
In Part 1, I shared how a unique technical challenge drove us to build a datastore framework that synchronized state. In this post, I’ll share how CloudStore works. CloudStore is a realtime
![Behind the Product: CloudStore Part 3 [The advantages and tradeoffs of CloudStore]](https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1536514498073-50e69d39c6cf?ixlib=rb-1.2.1&q=80&fm=jpg&crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&w=2000&fit=max&ixid=eyJhcHBfaWQiOjExNzczfQ)
Part 3: The advantages and tradeoffs of CloudStore As with all technical projects, CloudStore involved a number of tradeoffs. In this final post, I’ll describe the advantages we gained and the challenges