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> So the outcomes are essentially random?

In principle you could use CRDTs to end up with a "not quite random" outcome that simply takes the conflict into account - it doesn't really attempt to "resolve" it. That's quite good for some cases.



This is a kind of CRDT. CRDT is just some papers defining reasonably clear terminology to cover the kind of eventually consistent replication that has been done for decades, including this kind (timestamp-based last-writer wins).




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