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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 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
Below is a structured breakdown of all flaws in the architecture, categorized by type, with specific, actionable solutions and their inherent tradeoffs: Race Conditions Issue Description Solution Tradeoffs Client clock skew breaks LWW conflict resolution: Raw client wall clocks can be minutes/hours off, leading to…Read the full answer