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msgid ""
"title: 'On \"local-first\": beyond the CRDT silver bullet'\n"
"date: 2020-10-26\n"
"layout: slides\n"
"lang: en\n"
"ref: on-local-first-beyond-the-crdt-silver-bullet\n"
"published: false"
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msgid "On local-first"
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msgid "Beyond the CRDT silver bullet"
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msgid "Part 1"
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msgid "Exposition"
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msgid "\"cloud apps\" vs \"old-fashined apps\""
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msgid "Target"
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msgid "documents"
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msgid "files"
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msgid "personal data repositories"
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msgid ""
"Not: banking services, e-commerce, social networking, ride-sharing, *etc*."
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msgid "7 Ideals for local-first software"
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msgid "1 - No Spinners: Your Work at Your Fingertips"
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msgid "2 - Your Work Is Not Trapped on One Device"
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msgid "3 - The Network Is Optional"
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msgid "4 - Seamless Collaboration with Your Colleagues"
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msgid "5 - The Long Now"
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msgid "6 - Security and Privacy by Default"
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msgid "7 - You Retain Ultimate Ownership and Control"
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msgid "Towards a Better Future"
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msgid ""
"CRDTs (Conflict-free Replicated Data Types) as a Foundational Technology"
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msgid "Use case"
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msgid ""
"# in node A and node B\n"
"s = \"Hello, World\"\n"
"\n"
"# in node A\n"
"s = \"Hello, Alice\"\n"
"\n"
"# in node B\n"
"s = \"Hello, Bob\"\n"
msgstr ""
msgid "How to reconcile those?"
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msgid "`Hello, ABloibce`"
msgstr ""
msgid "`Hello, AliceBob`"
msgstr ""
msgid "`Hello, BobAlice`"
msgstr ""
msgid "`Hello, Alice`"
msgstr ""
msgid "`Hello, Bob`"
msgstr ""
msgid "Existing CRDTs differ:"
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msgid "performance"
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msgid "storage"
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msgid "compression"
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msgid "metadata overhead"
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msgid "Hint towards the \"automerge\" CRDT"
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msgid "*show comparison table, page 9*"
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msgid "Part 2"
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msgid "Critique"
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msgid "Software license"
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msgid ""
"In our opinion, maintaining control and ownership of data does not mean that"
" the software must necessarily be open source."
msgstr ""
msgid "Example 1 - intentional restriction"
msgstr ""
msgid ""
"#!/bin/sh\n"
"\n"
"TODAY=$(date +%s)\n"
"LICENSE_EXPIRATION=$(date -d 2020-10-27 +%s)\n"
"\n"
"if [ $TODAY -ge $LICENSE_EXPIRATION ]; then\n"
" echo 'License expired!'\n"
" exit 1\n"
"fi\n"
"\n"
"echo $((2 + 2))\n"
msgstr ""
msgid ""
"# today\n"
"$ ./useful-adder.sh\n"
"4\n"
"# tomorrow\n"
"$ ./useful-adder.sh\n"
"License expired!\n"
msgstr ""
msgid "Example 2 - unintentional restriction"
msgstr ""
msgid ""
"# today\n"
"$ useful-program\n"
"# ...useful output...\n"
"\n"
"# tomorrow, with more data\n"
"$ useful-program\n"
"ERROR: Panic! Stack overflow!\n"
msgstr ""
msgid "local-first **requires** free/libre software"
msgstr ""
msgid "Otherwise \"The Long Now\" (ideal nº5) is lost"
msgstr ""
msgid "Denial of existing solutions"
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msgid ""
"In principle it is possible to collaborate without a repository service, "
"e.g. by sending patch files by email, but the majority of Git users rely on "
"GitHub."
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msgid "Solution: either GitHub+CRDTs or `git` **`send-email`**"
msgstr ""
msgid "Plain text formats"
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msgid "Git is highly optimized for code and similar line-based text file"
msgstr ""
msgid "It even pulls software to the plain text direction, e.g.:"
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msgid "delivery-templates"
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msgid "`common-core.protocols.config`"
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msgid "Why not exploit that more?"
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msgid "Ditching of web applications"
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msgid "The architecture of web apps remains fundamentally server-centric"
msgstr ""
msgid ""
"Disagree. Constrast [PouchDB](https://pouchdb.com/) with Android [Instant "
"Apps](https://developer.android.com/topic/google-play-instant)"
msgstr ""
msgid "???"
msgstr ""
msgid "Talk on dynamic content"
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msgid "Costs are underrated"
msgstr ""
msgid "backups"
msgstr ""
msgid "maintanence"
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msgid "Example: blog vs vlog"
msgstr ""
msgid "Real-time collaboration a bit overrated"
msgstr ""
msgid ""
"It is only possible on the presence of reliable, medium-quality network "
"connection"
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msgid "X also works when inside an elevator, subway or plane!"
msgstr ""
msgid "On CRDTs and developer experience"
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msgid ""
"For an app developer, how does the use of a CRDT-based data layer compare to"
" existing storage layers like a SQL database, a filesystem, or CoreData? Is "
"a distributed system harder to write software for?"
msgstr ""
msgid "Yes."
msgstr ""
msgid ""
"See \"[A Note on Distributed "
"Computing](https://web.archive.org/web/20130116163535/http://labs.oracle.com/techrep/1994/smli_tr-94-29.pdf)\""
msgstr ""
msgid "Conclusion"
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msgid "Why this is a \"paper I love\": it took offline-first and ran with it."
msgstr ""
msgid "But a pinch of CRDT won't make the world local-first."
msgstr ""
msgid "The tricky part is the end of the sentence: \"**in spite of the Cloud**\"."
msgstr ""
msgid "Thank you!"
msgstr ""
msgid "References:"
msgstr ""
msgid "these slides: [{{ site.tld }}/slides.html]({% link slides.md %})"
msgstr ""
msgid ""
"[prose version of this presentation]({% link _articles/2020-10-26-on-local-"
"first-beyond-the-crdt-silver-bullet.md %})"
msgstr ""
msgid ""
"\"[Local-First Software: You Own Your Data, in spite of the "
"Cloud](https://martin.kleppmann.com/papers/local-first.pdf)\", by M. "
"Kleppmann, A. Wiggins, P. Van Hardenberg and M. F. McGranaghan"
msgstr ""
msgid ""
"[The Morning Paper](https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/11/20/local-first-"
"software/) article"
msgstr ""
