--- title: March 2017 meetup: Realm & Moving Mountains | daily.dev description: A recap of a March 2017 Android developer meetup held at Facebook NY. Two talks were featured: Tom Wilson from Blue Apron covered Realm database, its... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/march-2017-meetup-realm-moving-mountains-ugmnd8xc4 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: March 2017 meetup: Realm & Moving Mountains | daily.dev og:description: A recap of a March 2017 Android developer meetup held at Facebook NY. Two talks were featured: Tom Wilson from Blue Apron covered Realm database, its... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/march-2017-meetup-realm-moving-mountains-ugmnd8xc4 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/uGMnd8xc4.png og:image:alt: March 2017 meetup: Realm & Moving Mountains og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # March 2017 meetup: Realm & Moving Mountains **[Touchlab](https://daily.dev/sources/touchlab)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A recap of a March 2017 Android developer meetup held at Facebook NY. Two talks were featured: Tom Wilson from Blue Apron covered Realm database, its strengths, tradeoffs, and caveats (notably that partial updates are trickier than in other databases), and Jason Sendros from Facebook discussed strategies for modifying critical infrastructure incrementally without disrupting other developers or users. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Droidcon Orlando 2026 Recap](https://daily.dev/posts/droidcon-orlando-2026-recap-xgipuu2ah) · Touchlab · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [AI4Devs April meetup](https://daily.dev/posts/ai4devs-april-meetup-khwvcbmtx) · RUBYLAND · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#mobile](https://daily.dev/tags/mobile), [#backend](https://daily.dev/tags/backend) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/march-2017-meetup-realm-moving-mountains-ugmnd8xc4) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"March 2017 meetup: Realm & Moving Mountains","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/march-2017-meetup-realm-moving-mountains-ugmnd8xc4","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/march-2017-meetup-realm-moving-mountains-ugmnd8xc4"},"datePublished":"2026-08-02T07:15:20.705Z","dateModified":"2026-08-02T07:36:28.037Z","description":"A recap of a March 2017 Android developer meetup held at Facebook NY. Two talks were featured: Tom Wilson from Blue Apron covered Realm database, its...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/1feff392d21db9a467423c0e684f4cb9?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/1feff392d21db9a467423c0e684f4cb9?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Touchlab","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Touchlab","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--CQ0u6GwB--/f_auto,q_auto/v1785654902/logos/touchlab?_a=BAMAMicg0","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/touchlab"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/march-2017-meetup-realm-moving-mountains-ugmnd8xc4","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"mobile,backend","timeRequired":"PT2M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Touchlab","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/touchlab"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"March 2017 meetup: Realm & Moving Mountains"}]} ```