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CRDTs and the Quest for Distributed Consistency

Martin Kleppmann's QCon London 2018 talk on keeping data consistent in distributed systems without a central leader. It surveys CRDT algorithms for syncing devices and collaborative editing over peer-to-peer networks.

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Why HN readers recommended it

Strongly recommended as a clear, accessible survey of the CRDT landscape.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
InfoQ
Topic
crdts
Format
talk
Level
intermediate
HN recommenders in dataset
3
HN mentions in dataset
3
Recommendation years in dataset
2018–2020

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From the original HN conversations

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  • Recently saw a fantastic intermediate talk on this subject called CRDTs and the Quest for Distributed Consistency[0]. One product of the research was automerge[1], a library for handling collaborative editing of JSON-like data models [0]: [VIDEO] [1]: [LINK]

    hardwaresofton on Hacker News · 2018-10
    In Lessons learned from creating a real-time collaborative rich-text editor

  • I think the original statement is defensible. Many of the original OT papers proposed algorithms that have since been shown not to converge in particular cases (especially the TP2 puzzle). It took a while for the fog to clear, in part because TP2 requires concurrent …

    raphlinus on Hacker News · 2019-06
    In Creating a Collaborative Editor

  • Recently going through this book. I highly recommend it, and any videos by the author, Martin Kleppmann I especially like this one: > CRDTs and the quest for distributed consistency [VIDEO]

    syspec on Hacker News · 2020-07
    In Summary: Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann

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