An introduction to Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs)

The concept of collaborative applications is well known. Popular examples of collaborative applications are Google docs and Figma, which are applications that allow people to collaborate, concurrently or asynchronously, on a common task, such as writing a document or creating a visual design. In the above examples, the actors that collaborate are people, but people aren’t the only possible type of actor. In a collaborative application, it is now possible, with Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs), to write collaborative applications where people and machines can be the actors. Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types are a collection of data types that can be used to write decentralized, distributed applications that are inherently collaborative. Want to follow our journey at Mycelial? https://mycelial.com/#newsletter   / mycelial