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Does anyone else struggle to wrap their head around a lot of this new cloud stuff? I have 15+ years experience of building for the web, using Laravel / Postgre
by jwblackwell 2y ago
Does anyone else struggle to wrap their head around a lot of this new cloud stuff?
I have 15+ years experience of building for the web, using Laravel / Postgres / Redis stack and I read posts like this and just think, "not for me".
- djtango 2y agoFrom the article: > For useful background on the first version of Durable Objects take a look at Cloudflare's durable multiplayer moat by Paul Butler, who digs into its popularity for building WebSocket-based realtime collaborative applications. First apps that come to mind that have RT collaboration: - Google Docs/Sheets etc - Notion - Miro - Figma These are all global scale collaborative apps, I'm not sure a Laravel stack will support those use cases... Google had to in house everything and probably spearheaded the usage of CRDTs ( this is a guess!) but as the patterns emerge and the building blocks get SAASified, mass-RT collaboration no longer becomes a giant engineering problem and more and more interesting products get unlocked
- fastball 2y agoGoogle actually uses OT for their collab.
- jlokier 2y ago> Google had to in house everything and probably spearheaded the usage of CRDTs ( this is a guess!) Fwiw, Google Docs/Sheets etc don't use CRDTs, they use the more server-oriented Operational Transforms (OT). CRDTs were spearheaded by others.