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Somtochi Onyekwere
Software engineer focused on distributed systems and networking; works at Fly.io on Corrosion, an open-source eventually-consistent replication system built on SQLite and CRDTs.
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Jan 12, 2026
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Somtochi Onyekwere on Distributed Data Systems, Eventual Consistency and CRDTs
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Somtochi Onyekwere is a software engineer at Fly.io, specializing in distributed systems and networking. He discusses the importance of fast, eventually consistent replication in data systems and explains how Conflict-free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs) enhance conflict resolution. Somtochi shares insights on the balance between speed and consistency, use cases for eventual consistency, and the challenges of stale reads. He also dives into Corrosion's architecture and its implementations, including CRSQL, which extends SQLite for collaborative environments.
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