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You might be thinking of this [1] paper? The core idea being if your problem space lends itself to monotonicity (see the paper for a more precise definition than I can give), then you can build a globally consistent database (around a CRDT) where the end-user doesn't need to concern themselves with inconsistent states while consistency is reached.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1901.01930.pdf




I wasn't clear - by "the paper" I meant the original CRDT paper. I read it, thought I understood it on some level, but had not drawn the dots between the theory and real world problems.

Regardless, thanks very much for linking the paper! Right up my alley.


Marc Shapiro and Nuno Preguiça created CRDTs in 2007.

https://pages.lip6.fr/Marc.Shapiro/pubs.html#CRDTs

The original paper would be https://hal.inria.fr/inria-00177693/




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