Debug This Architecture
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 flaws that would make it unusable for a real-time collaborative experience. The most severe issues are the lack of a global synchronization mechanism, unreliable conflict resolution, and inefficient data persistence.Read the full answer
We need to list potential failure modes, race conditions, scaling bottlenecks, and propose specific solutions with trade-offs. Must be thorough. Consider WebSocket, load balancer, statelessness, DB writes, replication, polling, timestamp reliance, concurrency, partition tolerance, network partitions, server crashes…Read the full answer