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5 questions in Offline-First.

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A courier application must work where connectivity is intermittent. What must be designed rather than assumed?

A field application must work fully offline for hours and sync when connectivity returns. How should conflicts, permission changes and schema migrations on the device be handled?

A field service app must work offline. Engineers book parts from a shared inventory. What is the design problem?

Delivery couriers work in areas with intermittent connectivity and must complete jobs regardless. What does offline-first require beyond local caching?

You are designing a field-service application for engineers who work in basements and rural sites with no reliable connectivity. What is the architecture, and what are the decisions that will bite later?