Wolf Rentzsch talks to Andrew Pontious Conflict-free Replicated Datatypes (CRDTs), an exciting new suite of simple data types that are explicitly designed for distributed data storage. Also: CAP theorem, eventual consistency, and Indiana Jones.

Edge Cases 95: Conflict-free Replicated Data Types

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Andrew on Carthage and Wolf on text as a symptom. Plus: ending the show.

Edge Cases 128: Everybody's Got a Bad Parser

Wolf on strict vs flexible foundations and Andrew on React Native.

Edge Cases 127: A Foundation of Chaos

Andrew on how Apple is the new Microsoft and Wolf on real-time systems.

Edge Cases 126: Out-Microsofting Microsoft

Wolf on the why of software change and Andrew on GUI debugging tools, real and imagined.

Edge Cases 125: Gradient of Information

Andrew on Apple's Swift framework problem and Wolf on bitcode for software distribution.

Edge Cases 95: Conflict-free Replicated Data Types

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