Matthew Weidner

Matthew Weidner, a PhD student at Carnegie Mellon, dives into the world of distributed systems and local-first software. He shares insights from his comprehensive blog post on architectures for central server collaboration. The conversation covers fascinating technologies like CRDTs and auto-merge, contrasting various state management strategies in collaborative apps. Matthew highlights the evolution of local-first principles and its challenges, offering practical examples from gaming and collaborative text editing that illuminate the future of secure, flexible software.