The guest of this episode is Matthew Weidner, a computer science PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University focussing on distributed systems and local-first software. Matthew has recently published an extensive blog post about architectures for central server collaboration which is explored in depth in this conversation comparing different approaches such as CRDTs and event sourcing.

Mentioned in podcast

• Matthew Weidner: x.com/MatthewWeidner3 / mattweidner.com
• Architectures for Central Server Collaboration
• TRVE Data project
• Shapiro 2011 paper
• Carlos Baquero papers
• CRDT paper (the "very theoretical" one)
• Collabs: Docs / Paper
• Jupiter collaboration system from the 90s
• Building on Quicksand
• Immutability Changes Everything
• Ink & Switch's Upwelling
• list-positions
• Fractional indexing

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