[newhouseb]

You might be thinking of this [1] paper? The core idea being if your problem space lends itself to monotonicity (see the paper for a more precise definition than I can give), then you can build a globally consistent database (around a CRDT) where the end-user doesn't need to concern themselves with inconsistent states while consistency is reached.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1901.01930.pdf

[LAC-Tech]

I wasn't clear - by "the paper" I meant the original CRDT paper. I read it, thought I understood it on some level, but had not drawn the dots between the theory and real world problems.

Regardless, thanks very much for linking the paper! Right up my alley.

[sitkack]

Marc Shapiro and Nuno Preguiça created CRDTs in 2007.

https://pages.lip6.fr/Marc.Shapiro/pubs.html#CRDTs

The original paper would be https://hal.inria.fr/inria-00177693/