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Re:Every System is a Log: Avoiding coordination in distribut... by clayg on Friday January 24, 2025 @10:43AM (#42814193)
But can't any log be implemented as a CRDT? Was that not implied in the post? I didn't read it that close...
Re:Every System is a Log: Avoiding coordination in distribut... by ismailmaj on Friday January 24, 2025 @10:50AM (#42814273)
CRDT is really only useful when inconsistencies could be acceptable in some situations and so it depends on the application.

For something that is trying to solve the general problem of consistent single ground-truth log, you can't really do much better than Spanner.

Re:Every System is a Log: Avoiding coordination in distribut... by logsr on Friday January 24, 2025 @12:34PM (#42815419)
the "conflict-free" in crdt is like miller high life being the "champagne of beers." it really means conflicts ignored and conflicting items discarded by established rules, which works well for some use cases, but for many does not.