Conflict-free reordering

In this blog post we'll define the basics for a move operation used by Conflict-free Replicated Data Types (CRDT), which allows us to reorder the items in the collection. We'll define the general approach and go through example implementation build…

Shelf: easy way for recursive CRDT documents

In the past we already discussed how to build JSON-like Conflict-free Replicated Data Type [https://www.bartoszsypytkowski.com/operation-based-crdts-json-document/]. We used operation-based approach, with wide support for many operations and characteristics of a dynamically typed recursive documents. However with that…

Deep dive into Yrs architecture

In this blog post we're going to cover the the internals and architecture behind Yrs [https://crates.io/crates/yrs] (read: wires) - a Rust port of popular Yjs [https://yjs.dev/] CRDT library used for building collaborative peer-to-peer applications,…

Delta-state CRDTs: indexed sequences with YATA

In this blog post we're coming back to indexed sequence CRDTs - we already discussed some operation-based approaches in the past. This time we'll cover YATA (Yet Another Transformation Approach): a delta-state based variant, introduced [https://www.google.com/url?…

CRDT optimizations

After series of 11 blogs posts about Conflict-free Replicated Data Types, it's time to wrap up. This time let's discuss various optimizations that could be applied to CRDTs working at higher scale. Other blog posts from this series: * An introduction…

Pure operation-based CRDTs

In this blog post we'll continue on topic of operation-based CRDTs and focus on the optimizations and approach known as pure operation-based CRDTs [https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01287738/document]: how can we use them to address some of the problems…

Operation-based CRDTs: JSON document

Today we're going to cover how to build a complex, JSON-like document CRDT. In the past, we focused on homogeneous data types like registers, sets, arrays or maps. This time we're going to combine them all and tackle some of…

Operation-based CRDTs: arrays (part 2)

Last time [https://www.bartoszsypytkowski.com/operation-based-crdts-arrays-1/] we were discussing how to build a Commutative Replicated Data Types operating as indexed sequences - preserving order of inserted elements - using two different data structures: Linear Sequences (LSeq) and Replicated Growable…