{"id":7627,"date":"2013-07-24T13:24:05","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T18:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=7627"},"modified":"2013-07-24T13:24:05","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T18:24:05","slug":"beware-of-sync-platforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/24\/beware-of-sync-platforms\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware of Sync Platforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kssreeram.org\/posts\/2013\/07\/12\/beware-of-sync-platforms.html\">KS Sreeram<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/kssreeram.org\/posts\/2013\/07\/12\/beware-of-sync-platforms.html\"><p>Any sync-platform that claims to perform automatic conflict resolution is broken. This is because conflict resolution is fundamentally a domain specific problem that cannot be magically solved by a generic platform.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>In essence, the notion of a <em>conflict<\/em> depends on the <em>meaning<\/em> that\nwe assign to the data. Dropbox knows nothing about the meaning. It\nonly knows the shape of the data. And that&rsquo;s not enough to resolve\nconflicts.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KS Sreeram: Any sync-platform that claims to perform automatic conflict resolution is broken. This is because conflict resolution is fundamentally a domain specific problem that cannot be magically solved by a generic platform. [&#8230;] In essence, the notion of a conflict depends on the meaning that we assign to the data. Dropbox knows nothing about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[47,269],"class_list":["post-7627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-dropbox","tag-syncing"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}