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CRDTs: From Sequential to Concurrent Executions
Summary
Carlos Baquero Moreno discusses migrating from sequential to concurential programming using CRDTs.
Bio
Carlos Baquero is an Assistant Professor and teaches Distributed Systems at Universidade do Minho, Portugal. He is a Senior Researcher at the High Assurance Software Laboratory within INESC TEC. In the 90s, motivated by mobile computing and offline operation for file systems, he studied data types with merge operations over semi-lattices, a precursor to state-based CRDTs.
About the conference
Code Mesh LDN, the Alternative Programming Conference, focuses on promoting useful non-mainstream technologies to the software industry. The underlying theme is "the right tool for the job", as opposed to automatically choosing the tool at hand.