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I'm a fan of event sourcing architecture [1]. This looks like a good backend for it.

[1]: https://martinfowler.com/eaaDev/EventSourcing.html

Isn't this the same as CRDT libs like automerge are doing ?

No, event-sourcing is a subset of an implementation detail of some (most, maybe all?) CRDTs. An event-sourcing based system doesn't even need to be distributed, but often is.

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