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What if you're behind a firewall BTW? Would CRDT require forwarding ports?
by aruggirello 8y ago
What if you're behind a firewall BTW? Would CRDT require forwarding ports?
- dboreham 8y agoYou're talking about two quite different layers. CRDT deals with "how could we replicate complex data with multiple writers and achieve eventual consistency in a distributed system?" (Problem #1) Forwarding ports and so in is dealing with "how can we get people's devices and computers to use the Internet like it was intended to be used, where nodes can make arbitrary connections to each other, even though that Internet was long ago broken by NAT and firewalling?" (Problem #2) The two only appear together because if you were interested in solving Problem #2 then you probably also have Problem #1.