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## crdt.md

      
        
          
            
              
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                CvRDTs are almost as general as they can be.
              
          
        
      
        
  
      
    CvRDTs are (almost?) as general as they can be

What are you talking about, and why should I care?

Now that we live in the Big Data, Web 3.14159 era, lots of people want to build
databases that are too big to fit on a single machine. But there's a problem in
the form of the CAP theorem, which states that if your network ever
partitions (a machine goes down, or part of the network loses its connection to
the rest) then you can keep consistency (all machines return the same answer to