Research for Practice: Convergence

IT IS WITH great pride and no small amount of excitement that I announce the reboot of Research for Practice. Beginning at its inception in 2016, Research for Practice brought both seminal and cutting-edge research-via careful curation by experts in academia-within easy reach for practitioners who are too busy building things to manage the deluge of scholarly publications. We believe the series succeeded in its stated goal of sharing the joy and utility of reading computer science research between academics and their counterparts in industry. We are delighted to rekindle the flame after a three-year hiatus. For this first installment, we invited Martin Kleppmann, research fellow and affiliated lecturer at the University of Cambridge, to curate a selection of recent research papers in a perennially interesting domain: convergent or eventual consistent replicated systems. His expert analysis circles the

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The reboot of Research for Practice brings cutting-edge research to busy practitioners through expert curation, fostering communication between academia and industry.