How Figma’s multiplayer technology works

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Created 2019-10-16
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This is the post we wished we could have read when we were first starting our research. It's one thing to learn about CRDTs in the abstract, but it's a different thing to find out how those ideas work in practice in a real production system. Some of our main takeaways: - CRDT literature can be relevant even if you're not creating a decentralized system - Multiplayer for a visual editor like ours wasn't as intimidating as we thought - Taking time to research and prototype in the beginning really paid off

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CRDTs in practice Useful edge cases - undo, parent changing, child ordering
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Great take on CRDTs in a real-world system (using tree-based document structure). Also useful to know how CRDTs can be applied in a centralized system.