Creating Local-First Collaboration Software with Automerge • Martin Kleppmann • GOTO 2023

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Amsterdam 2023. #GOTOcon #GOTOams Martin Kleppmann - Researcher at the Technical University of Munich @kleppmann RESOURCES Martin @martin ABSTRACT Many of us use collaboration software such as Google Docs, Overleaf, Figma, or Trello every day. While this cloud software is very valuable, it is also fragile: if the company providing it goes out of business, or decides to suspend your account, the software stops working, and you are locked out of all of the documents and data you ever created with that software. Local-first software is an effort to make collaboration software less dependent on cloud services, and Automerge is an open-source library for realising local-first software. Automerge uses Conflict-free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs) to allow several users to concurrently update a file, and it automatically merges those updates into a consistent result. It provides data formats for efficiently storing this data and syncing it between users. It seamlessly supports both offline work and live real-time collaboration while users are online. This talk will introduce our recent research on CRDTs, and provide an update on the latest developments in Automerge. [...] TIMECODES 00:00 Intro 00:37 Web app architecture through the ages 07:01 Local-first software 17:50 Automerge 25:46 Automerge guarantees 31:52 Peritext 40:13 Resources 40:20 Outro Download slides and read the full abstract here: RECOMMENDED BOOKS Martin Kleppmann • Designing Data-Intensive Applications • Martin Kleppmann • Secret Colors: A Gentle Introduction to Cryptography • #Privacy #CRDTs #Data #LocalFirst #Automerge #WebApp #CloudvsLocalFirst #Peritext #MartinKleppmann Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at Sign up for updates and specials at SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily.