Hacker NewsCRDTs merge concurrent edits. Why not concurrent creation?
InfoQIn this #InfoQ podcast, Somtochi Onyekwere breaks down:
• Recent developments in #DistributedDataSystems
• How to achieve fast, eventually consistent replication across distributed nodes
• Using #CRDTs (Conflict-free Replicated Data Types) to resolve data conflicts seamlessly
🎧 Listen here: https://bit.ly/49OiNaE
vascorsdSome pretty cool visualizations here 
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An Interactive Intro to CRDTs
https://jakelazaroff.com/words/an-interactive-intro-to-crdts/
by @jakelazaroff
linked from https://lobste.rs/s/oe6l1z/interactive_intro_crdts
N-gated Hacker News🚀 Dive headfirst into #CRDTs with Jake's blog, where academic complexity is magically transformed into... more complexity 🤯. After a month at the Recurse Center, Jake heroically sorts through the chaos of math jargon to offer you the 'Last Write Wins' of tutorials—but don't worry, your sanity might win too 😂.
https://jakelazaroff.com/words/an-interactive-intro-to-crdts/ #JakeBlog #RecurseCenter #MathJargon #LastWriteWins #HackerNews #ngated
https://jakelazaroff.com/words/an-interactive-intro-to-crdts/ #JakeBlog #RecurseCenter #MathJargon #LastWriteWins #HackerNews #ngated
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Open Local FirstM. Palanikannan will be talking about How He Built Plane's Collaborative Wiki with Yjs, in Production, at #fosdem '26 #LocalFirst & #CRDTs devroom!
In this talk he will share his experience with using Yjs. What he learned from using it in production, and the quirks he had to go through.
Come listen to him and the 26 speakers on 1st Feb, from 9:00 AM.
It is free! more details:
https://openlocalfirst.org/schedules/#3-plane-wiki-local-first-in-production-with-yjs
For most Internet apps, #EventualConsistency works fine when strict guarantees aren’t needed.
Conflict-free Replicated Data Types (#CRDTs) let independent replicas accept writes and update data without coordination.
🎙️ Dive deeper in the #InfoQ #podcast with Somtochi Onyekwere, Software Engineer at Fly.io!
🎧 Listen now (#transcript included): https://bit.ly/49OiNaE
#DistributedSystems #DataEngineering #AI #ConflictFreeReplicatedDataTypes
@tbernard and @adz will be talking about @modal , Reflection and @p2panda : Towards a Local-First Linux Desktop, at
#FOSDEM '26 #LocalFirst & #CRDTs devroom!
They'll introduce you to Modal, a collective focused on bringing local-first principles to Linux Desktop and Mobile. He'll also showcase Reflection, the GTK-based text editor, and p2panda, the underlying peer-to-peer stack.
Come listen to them and the 26 speakers on 1st Feb, from 9:00.
It is free! more details:
https://openlocalfirst.org/schedules/#8-p2panda-modal-reflection
#CaseStudy - the Man Group moved from managing one of Europe's largest MongoDB clusters to a truly #serverless architecture with #ArcticDB - no more chasing space, no more annoying upgrades - just a software library connecting directly to S3.
How do you build a high-performance database without a server? Alex Seaton breaks down the hard-won lessons from the transition:
• Clock drift is real
• Sometimes you have to redesign from scratch
• CRDTs are useful but very subtle things
🎬 Watch the #InfoQ video and dive into the full architecture behind this shift ⇨ https://bit.ly/3Z9AiwX
📄 #transcript included
Nick Perez will be talking about Teleportal: A real-time collaborative editing framework at @fosdem '26 #LocalFirst & #CRDTs devroom!
Teleportal is a framework for creating a web-standards based backend & client for realtime collaborative applications. It is based on the popular Y.js CRDT, and implements a synchronization protocol on top
Come listen to him and the 25 speakers on 1st Feb starting at 9:00, it is free! #FOSDEM #FOSDEM2026
more details:
https://openlocalfirst.org/schedules/#13-teleportal
