M. Palanikannan

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Software Engineer at Plane, building the collaborative Wiki on Yjs. Expertise in CRDTs, collaborative text editors, and distributed systems. Google Summer of Code alumnus.

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Local-First in Production — FOSDEM 2026 Recap

by m-palanikannan

Shipping CRDTs to real users teaches lessons no demo can: save the binary as source of truth, never overwrite—always merge, and build fallbacks for when WebSockets inevitably die.

local-first crdt yjs collaborative-editing productionFeb 2, 2026