

Years after CRDTs went mainstream, Kleppmann revisits the awkward corners — moving list items, deletions, garbage collection — that papers gloss over.

A tour of the algorithms that let independent replicas converge without a coordinator — and why CRDTs are the cleanest answer we have.

Kleppmann argues we've been thinking about databases backwards: the log is the source of truth, and the database is just a materialized view of it.
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