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by lunarcave 830 days ago
> All data is serialisable. I'd say that's axiomatic. Data is information with a concrete representation.

I Do not disagree. I think the problem comes from us using the term serializable to liberally.

> My best guess is there's some limitations caused by the stack under your implementation that you haven't worked around, but I don't know what those limitations are or which ones you plan to resolve.

Agree. Feedback received, and thanks. This will be worked in.

But I'll attempt to answer your questions here:

> Is aliasing within the original preserved?

No. The data being sent over the network is copied by value, not reference - if that makes sense.

> Is it compressed in transit?

Yes. With Message Pack.

> Is it delta encoded with respect to information that was sent previously?

I'm not sure I follow, but all calls are independent of each other.

> Is there some initial blob of information every instance starts up with that messages are deduplicated against?

> And that's before the behaviour on mutation - when one machine changes the data, how and when is that change reflected on other machines?

Not sure if this helps, but this [1] talks about the architecture. There's a C&C. The control-plane is the orchestrator for all machines.

[1] https://docs.differential.dev/advanced/architecture/