Design Google Docs | Operational Transformation | CRDT

How to design Google docs. Explore 3 different approaches on concurrent text modification

Operational Transformation (OT) is a key algorithm used in collaborative editing systems like Google Docs to enable real-time, concurrent editing of shared documents by multiple users while maintaining consistency. The primary goal of OT is to ensure that edits made by different users in different orders result in the same final document state.

The core …