In this blog post we'll discuss challenges and solutions for concurrent reading from massive amount of Redis streams without running into limitations of the Redis protocol or our machine resources. First let's describe our problem. We…
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Non-interleaving Linear Sequence (LSeq) CRDT
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Conflict-free Replicated Spread Sheets
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WebAssembly and replayable functions
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State of Yrs in May 2023
This blog post is a short summary of ecosystem and capabilities of Yrs (read: wires): a fully-compatible Rust port of Yjs library used to build collaborative peer-to-peer applications thanks to the power of Conflict-free Replicated Data Types. They are being…
CRDTs & Security: Authentication
Today we're going to continue exploration of Conflict-free Replicated Data Types domain. This time we'll start designing protocols that focus on a security aspects as first class citizens. Managing security and permissions in peer-to-peer systems may…