2025-06-12 –, Side Stage - Cinema 6
Git is 20 years old and git's Merkle DAG model is an established standard for decentralized systems. BitCoin and blockchains more or less follow in the footsteps. Same applies to the most of decentralized technology. The Replicated Data eXchange format aimed to overcome a number of pain points in that model, such as: accumulation of cryptographic sediment, coarse-grained-ness of data units, various inherent impedance mismatches and so on.
So, how is the progress?
The author is a veteran of decentralized systems research mainly specializing in data sync and CRDTs.
A researcher in decentralized systems, data syncing and CRDTs. Worked in many universities and companies, including TU Delft, HSE, Yandex, Realm, JetBrains. Talked at conferences, ACM/IEEE, industry, unconferences, meetups, FOSDEMs and so on.