Neurons to Electrons

Implementing a CRDT Application with JavaScript and C++ Clients In today’s interconnected world, distributed systems are everywhere—from collaborative editing tools and messaging apps to cloud databases and IoT networks. One of the biggest challenges in these systems is ensuring that data remains consistent across multiple devices and platforms, even when updates happen independently and network partitions occur. Traditional approaches often rely on complex conflict resolution or central coordination, which can introduce latency, bottlenecks, or even single points of failure. Enter Conflict-free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs) , a family of data structures designed to make distributed consistency simple, robust, and scalable. A Brief History and Theoretical Foundations of CRDTs The concept of CRDTs emerged in the late 2000s as researchers and engineers sought better ways to handle data replication in distributed systems. The foundational work by Marc Shapiro and others formalize...