Creating Local-First Collaboration Software with Automerge • Martin Kleppmann • GOTO 2023

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Martin Kleppmann - Researcher at the Technical University of Munich ‪@kleppmann‬

RESOURCES
https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first
https://automerge.org

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ABSTRACT
Many of us use collaboration software such as Google Docs, Overleaf, Figma, or Trello every day. While this cloud software is very valuable, it is also fragile: if the company providing it goes out of business, or decides to suspend your account, the software stops working, and you are locked out of all of the documents and data you ever created with that software.

Local-first software is an effort to make collaboration software less dependent on cloud services, and Automerge is an open-source library for realising local-first software. Automerge uses Conflict-free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs) to allow several users to concurrently update a file, and it automatically merges those updates into a consistent result. It provides data formats for efficiently storing this data and syncing it between users. It seamlessly supports both offline work and live real-time collaboration while users are online.

This talk will introduce our recent research on CRDTs, and provide an update on the latest developments in Automerge. [...]

TIMECODES
00:00 Intro
00:37 Web app architecture through the ages
07:01 Local-first software
17:50 Automerge
25:46 Automerge guarantees
31:52 Peritext
40:13 Resources
40:20 Outro

Download slides and read the full abstract here:
https://gotoams.nl/2023/sessions/2449

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Martin Kleppmann • Designing Data-Intensive Applications • https://amzn.to/3mk2Roj
Martin Kleppmann • Secret Colors: A Gentle Introduction to Cryptography • https://amzn.to/3PgAcyj

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