LiveGraph: real-time data fetching at Figma
Figma built LiveGraph, which tails the Postgres replication log so its UI can subscribe to live query results.
- Published
- 2021-10-14
- Scale
- Not stated in source
- Techniques
- change data capture real-time sync caching
- Stack
- PostgreSQL GraphQL
Try this stack yourself
- Railway · Deploy something like this on Railway: spin up PostgreSQL plus your app in a few clicks. New accounts get $20 in credit (applied when you pick a paid plan).
Railway isn't part of Figma's setup in this story. It's just an easy place to try the same building blocks.
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