Design real-time collaborative editing for documents. Where does operational transform win, and where does CRDT?

Reciting both acronyms is the median answer. Expert level chooses by connectivity assumptions and undo semantics, then defends CRDT metadata growth with numbers.

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Reciting both acronyms is the median answer. Expert level chooses by connectivity assumptions and undo semantics, then defends CRDT metadata growth with numbers.

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