A Look at Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types (CRDT)You may have heard about CRDTs in the past few years if you are into distributed systems. In this post I will give a brief summary of what they are and what kind of guarantees they provide. In short, CRDTs are objects that can be updated without expensive synchronization/consensus and they are guaranteed to converge eventually if all concurrent updates are commutative (see below) and if all update
