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Re:Ask HN: What is the best thing you read in 2022? by scatterhead on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @01:54AM (#34062523)
> In this scenario, the whole database is a single CRDT.

But why? These ideas are elegant but usually not practical. Performance usually ends up forcing us back to ole faithful (mutability).

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Re:Ask HN: What is the best thing you read in 2022? by LAC-Tech on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @02:30AM (#34062753)
In this scenario I am talking about an append only data model. I admit to not understand the concept of an immutable database.
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