CRDTs / Metadata Overhead
Kind: tension
Record: tension:crdts-metadata-overhead
Canonical: Schema
"crdts" (causality-core layer) is traded against "Metadata Overhead" (causality-core layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Metadata Overhead" and choosing an explicit operating point.
Listed in Tensions, after Hybrid Logical Clocks / Clock Skew and before CRDTs / Last-Write-Wins Overwrite.