Real-Time Collaboration with CRDTs

System Design diagram · made in Skemio

Architecture diagram displaying two collaborative clients streaming edits via WebSockets to a synchronization gateway and document cluster.

Open it in Skemio Make your own

What it shows

CRDTs guarantee strong eventual consistency mathematically without locks.
State merges are commutative and idempotent, resolving conflicting edits.
WebSocket brokers broadcast small diff operations with sub-50ms latency.

The takeaway

CRDTs eliminate locking bottlenecks by designing concurrent operations to merge deterministically.

#SystemDesign
#WebSockets
#CRDT
#DistributedSystems
#SoftwareArchitecture
#FullStack

More system design diagrams