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CRDT work

What are you working on these days? I’m all over the place at the moment, but one topic keeps standing out – working on CRDTs. If you don’t know this crazy arsed geek acronym, it stands for Conflict-free Replicated Data Types, and it’s a means to enable eventually consistent data replication – “sync” in aContinue reading “CRDT work”

CRDTs and lockless data structures

A good five or so years ago Shevek, a friend I met while building cloud-generating appliances at the (now defunct) Nebula, spent an afternoon and evening describing the benefits of lock-free data structures to me. He went deep into the theoretical aspects of it, summarizing a lot of the research thinking at the time. WhileContinue reading “CRDTs and lockless data structures”