crdt – Tarik Billa

Conflict-free Replicated Data Types (CRDT) vs Paxos or Raft

August 30, 2023 by Tarik

If you can use something like CRDT, do so. You should get much better performance. It also enables interesting use cases such as working offline and then merging later. However it is not always possible to design things such that a CRDT will work for you. In that case, paxos can solve the hard problems … Read more

Differences between OT and CRDT

January 10, 2023 by Tarik

Both approaches are similar in that they provide eventual consistency. The difference is in how they do it. One way of looking at it is: OT does it by changing operations. Operations are sent over the wire and concurrent operations are transformed once they are received. CRDTs do it by changing state. Operations are made … Read more