i feel like some descriptions of crdts are making impossibly utopian promises in confusing technical and human "consitency guarantees" (or maybe im missing something)
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- Copied to multiple machines
- Be modified independently by those machines without any coordination and for any length of time
- All divergent copies of that state can be merged back together in any […]
"One of the simplest CRDTs is a set that can only grow"
-- this makes sense, but not every collaboration or process can actually be mapped onto "a set that can only grow"... that is a very specific subset of all collaborative problems
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so what I'm really saying here, is using CRDTs is not […]
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A CRDT is a data type that can be:
- Copied to multiple machines
- Be modified independently by those machines without any coordination and for any length of time
- All divergent copies of that state can be merged back together in any […]
-- this makes sense, but not every collaboration or process can actually be mapped onto "a set that can only grow"... that is a very specific subset of all collaborative problems
-
so what I'm really saying here, is using CRDTs is not […]