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Agreeing Without Asking: CRDTs and Local-First Software
On an unmanned North Sea platform with the network down, fictional inspectors Wilhelmina Asante and Piet Vermeulen update the same valve record without knowing it: a weeping gland on one tablet, a seized handwheel on the other. In episode one hundred and nineteen we ask how both edits can survive. We start with the weaknesses of server-first apps, Lamport's insight that there is no global now, and the two families of collaborative editing: Ellis and Gibbs' operational transformation, behind Google Docs, and the conflict-free replicated data types defined by Shapiro, Preguiça, Baquero and…
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