Conflict Resolution for Eventual Consistency

Explore conflict resolution strategies for eventual consistency in distributed systems through this GOTO Berlin 2016 conference talk. Delve into the challenges faced by collaborative editors, mobile calendar apps, and multi-datacenter database clusters when dealing with network interruptions and offline functionality. Learn about data structures, conflict resolution techniques, and practical examples including Google Docs and Unicode handling. Discover how unique identifiers and CRDTs (Conflict-free Replicated Data Types) can be utilized to manage conflicts in distributed environments. Gain insights into the evolution of conflict resolution methods and their applications in modern data-intensive systems.

Introduction
Background
Example
Problems
Two Data Centers
Data Structures
Conflict Resolution
Example Document
Unicode
Google Docs
Unique Identifiers
A Simple Example
Deleting
CRDT
Map of Colors
Deleting Objects
The Old Bad Days
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Book
Questions