[no-s]

Is trying to be the “essential CRDT”? CRDT didn’t spring from the quivering Internet jello fully formed in 2006. I feel this should go further back. I recall doing CRDT-like things for distributed message threading in ’97, and I’m pretty sure it wasn’t original work. E.g. I recall some reading some paper[1] at the time which referenced Lamport’s 1978 note on distributed time[2].

The Awesome CRDT[3] references earlier material too.

[1] https://fileadmin.cs.lth.se/cs/Personal/Amr_Ergawy/dist-algo... [2] https://www.ics.uci.edu/~cs230/reading/time.pdf [3] https://github.com/alangibson/awesome-crdt

[thruflo]

This is a list of research papers on CRDTs, published on the main open source reference site about CRDTs, curated by Martin Kleppmann, Annette Bieniusa and Marc Shapiro.

That’s about as canonical as you can get.

The papers obviously reference the prior work.

What’s interesting to me is to see how much new work continues to build on CRDTs and push the boundaries of what’s possible for AP, causal and mixed consistency systems.