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Creating Local First Collaboration Software with Automerge

Many of us use collaboration software such as Google Docs, Overleaf, Figma, or Trello every day. However, implementing real-time collaboration features in your own apps has long been technically challenging, and the resulting software is often fragile: it behaves poorly when the user’s internet connection is unstable, and service outages leave users locked out of their files.

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.

ACM Learning Center TechTalk Archive

ACM award winners, leading researchers, industry veterans, thought leaders, and innovators address today and tomorrow's hottest topics and issues in computing for busy practitioners, as well as educators, students, and researchers. Check out our archive of these ACM TechTalks, free for members and non-members alike.

TechTalks on Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

Talks from some of the leading visionaries and bleeding-edge researchers in AI/ML: Fei-Fei Li on visual intelligence in computers and ImageNet; Eric Horvitz on AI solutions in the open world; and Tom Mitchell on using ML to study how the brain creates and represents language.

23 August 2023 :

Ethical and Responsible Large Language Models Challenges and Best Practices with Nicole Konigstein and Miquel Noguer i Alonso

27 July 2023 :

Reskilling to Build Diverse Tech Teams

21 June 2023 :

LLMs: A New Way to Teach Programming with Daniel Zingaro and Leo Porter

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Rebecca Parsons TechTalk

View the recent ACM TechTalk, "The (Medium Term) Future of Evolutionary Architecture," presented by Rebecca Parsons, CTO-Emerita at ThoughtWorks. Vanya Seth, Head of Technology for ThoughtWorks India, moderated the questions and answers session following the talk. Continue the discussion on ACM's Discourse Page.

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Martin Kleppmann TechTalk

View the recent ACM TechTalk, "Creating Local-First Collaboration Software with Automerge," presented by Martin Kleppmann, Research Fellow at the Technical University of Munich, Germany. Peter van Hardenberg, Research Director at Ink & Switch, moderated the questions and answers session following the talk. Continue the discussion on ACM's Discourse Page.

ACM TechTalks

View Our Recent TechTalk

Creating Local First Collaboration Software with Automerge

ACM Learning Center TechTalk Archive

TechTalks on Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

View Latest Learning Center TechTalks

Ethical and Responsible Large Language Models Challenges and Best Practices with Nicole Konigstein and Miquel Noguer i Alonso

Reskilling to Build Diverse Tech Teams

LLMs: A New Way to Teach Programming with Daniel Zingaro and Leo Porter

Rebecca Parsons TechTalk

Martin Kleppmann TechTalk