Conflict Resolution for Eventual Consistency • Martin Kleppmann • GOTO 2016

Why HN readers recommended it

Treated as the go-to approachable yet deep primer on CRDTs and collaborative editing, recommended repeatedly in threads on Automerge, local-first software and OT versus CRDT.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

GOTO Conferences

Topic

CRDTs and eventual consistency

Format

talk

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

13

Recommendation years in dataset

2017–2020

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• Is this website related to the popular [LINK] ? Holy cow, this is an intense article, with great definitions for a bunch of detailed variations of distribute system jargon, and even has some nice images to explain the ideas! My specialty is in eventually consistent …

• I've spent almost a decade working on CRDTs, largely from an industry perspective but also some academic side. They're great, and not too hard to understand if you take time to think about them. Here are some animated/interactive cartoon explainers we've made to help teach …

• CRDTs are quite actively discussed in the IPFS community, in particular here: [LINK] (lots of great resources if you're interested in CRDTs) Also check out automerge, a CRDT that aims to be as JSON-like as possible: [LINK] Martin Kleppmann (one of the creators of Automerge) …