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
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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#14 – Matthew Weidner: Architectures for Central Server Collaboration

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#14 – Matthew Weidner: Architectures for Central Server Collaboration