The cloud is a prison. Can the Local-First Software Movement Set Us Free?
He describes Shapiro’s paper as “an awakening.” In CRDTs, Kleppmann saw the technical basis for a new class of software that no one was providing. But the algorithms were mostly useless to professional programmers. They were too inefficient and lacked the typical tools that developers actually use to make apps. Kleppmann realized that he would… Read More »