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Re:Faster CRDTs (2021) by minkles on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @07:28PM (#41374385)
Most of iCloud's services use CRDTs underneath I believe. That includes Notes, Reminders and possibly Photos as well. FoundationDB is some of the backend as well. I was told this by a drunken former Apple SRE in a bar :)
Re:Faster CRDTs (2021) by mweidner on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @08:31PM (#41374821)
Indeed, Apple Notes has a reasonably sophisticated CRDT, including support for tables: https://github.com/dunhamsteve/notesutils/blob/master/notes....
Re:Faster CRDTs (2021) by octopoc on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @12:47PM (#41381451)
The other day I saw a bug in it, when editing a Note that another person was also editing. We were editing separate paragraphs. My cursor kept resetting to the beginning of a word after each letter I typed (and the Swype-style keyboard had the same problem). My point is, even Apple Notes doesn't get it quite right.
Re:Faster CRDTs (2021) by MarkMarine on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @11:21PM (#41375619)
one would hope that is what they are using it for, since they bought one of the best foundations for a db to exist: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9418255