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Here's the architecture for a real-time collaborative document editor (like Google Docs): **System Overview:** - Frontend: React SPA with…
This architecture contains several critical single points of failure, severe race conditions, data-loss mechanisms, and major performance bottlenecks. Below is a detailed breakdown of these issues categorized by domain, along with proposed architectural fixes and trade-offs.Read the full answer
The main architectural risk is that this design treats collaborative editing as ordinary “last write wins” data storage. It is not: edits need a well-defined order, reliable propagation, and a conflict model that preserves concurrent work.Read the full answer