The Conductor Rewrite: What They Changed to Make It Fast

How Conductor rebuilt its app twice as fast: local-first SQLite, Tauri over Electron, TanStack Router, react-virtuoso, and Node to Bun.

The Conductor Rewrite: What They Changed to Make It Fast Dennis Brotzky · June 1, 2026 The Conductor Rewrite: What They Changed to Make It Fast I recently saw a post on X from Charlie Holtz saying, “ We’ve rebuilt Conductor from scratch to make it twice as fast, ” and it immediately caught my attention. I needed to know exactly what they did to improve the performance. Fast forward a couple weeks, I had the chance to sit down with Jackson de Campos , one of the founders of Conductor. He walked me through the technical decisions behind the rewrite, the stack powering it, and some of the early l

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