Big question! It deserves its own blog post haha. CRDTs can be the answer. We actually wrote about them recently (https://ably.com/blog/crdts-distributed-data-

Big question! It deserves its own blog post haha. CRDTs can be the answer. We actually wrote about them recently (https://ably.com/blog/crdts-distributed-data-consistency-challenges https://ably.com/blog/crdts-distributed-data-consistency-cha...), and there is more coming soon as our Chief Of Scientist and his team are researching CRDTs and building demos!