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Here's the architecture for a real-time collaborative document editor (like Google Docs): **System Overview:** - Frontend: React SPA with…
Here is a comprehensive analysis of the failure modes, race conditions, and scaling bottlenecks in the described architecture. I have grouped related issues for clarity while preserving all significant problems identified through team collaboration.Read the full answer
This design will lose edits, split users into inconsistent views, and fall over under concurrent writing. The core problems are clock-based conflict resolution, per-server WebSocket fan-out, polling as the sync path, and treating documents as full HTML snapshots.Read the full answer