![]() What we discovered is that by applying optimizations to how we store (sharding & colocation) and retrieve data (batching & coalescing) we could achieve an almost zero-latency experience when browsing application data. It’s not zero-access yet, but we’re building in that direction. Slapdash employees can't see the contents of what we index since everything except the reverse index is encrypted. Of course, the data we store is encrypted on disk, in-transit and in the data store. We then built a graph database on top of Postgres, added a data access layer with graph semantics, with GraphQL API delivering the data to the client. We built an import system, which effectively solves a graph replication problem (translating the structure of the app data to the Slapdash graph and keeping it in sync). We modeled our file system as a graph and we built our architecture to match, with a focus on performance. It turns your working world into a database you can easily query. You connect an application like Drive, or GitHub to Slapdash and we give you a way to search and browse the data in a uniform interface (kind of like Finder). ![]() The first thing we built was a low-latency file system for cloud apps. Even for a small team like us, our work spans Drive, Dropbox, Figma, GitHub, Asana, Notion, Docusign, Slack, Quip, etc. What’s the history of this code abstraction? What are my colleagues working on? What’s the story with this customer?īuilding such a system today means connecting people's cloud apps, because that's where most of the work is happening today. Common questions in day-to-day work are easy to answer. Companies like Facebook and Stripe build a class of tools internally that unifies all the employees and any collaboration apps, so you can find anyone or anything the company knows. When we left our big company jobs, one of the difficult things to part with was the tooling. We have built a uniform, low-latency data browser (kind of like Finder) as well as a unified command line-like interface (kind of like Spotlight) for the applications you use at work. Slapdash lets you work across all of your cloud apps at desktop speed, sort of like an OS for cloud apps. I'm Ivan, one of the founders of Slapdash ( ).
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