Get the latest tech news

Strong Eventual Consistency – The Big Idea Behind CRDTs

Missing the Forest for the Sequence Trees.

Data structures that can be replicated across multiple nodes, edited independently, merged back together, and it all just works. But collaborative document editing and multiplayer TODO lists are just the tip of the iceberg - I believe the big application is distributed databases, and for that we need to talk about consistency. It means incredible fault tolerance - every single node in the system bar one could simultaneously crash, and reads and writes could still happen normally.

Get the Android app