Hey, I'm a co-founder at ElectricSQL. Durable Streams is the delivery protocol underneath our Postgres sync engine—we've been refining it in production for 18 months.
The core idea: streams get their own URL and use opaque, monotonic offsets. Clients persist the last offset they processed and resume with "give me everything after X." No server-side session state, CDN-cacheable, plain HTTP.
We kept seeing teams reinvent this for AI token streaming and real-time apps, so we're standardizing it as a standalone protocol.
The repo has a reference Node.js server and TypeScript client. Would love to see implementations in other languages—there's a conformance test suite to validate compatibility.
Happy to dig into the design tradeoffs—why plain HTTP over WebSockets, etc.
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