CRDTs Turned Inside Out
Last time, I discussed the trade-offs between more traditional CRDTs, such as the State-based CRDT, Op-based CRDT, and Delta-based CRDT. There are another class of CRDTs: Merkle CRDTs. Most ink spilt on CRDTs focuses on consistently merging data from different replicas. That's just half the story. Without a way of