Presentation: Architecting Google Docs
Location:
- Fleming, 3rd flr.
Duration
Day of week:
- Tuesday
Key Takeaways
- Hear how Google Sheets came to be part of Google Apps.
- Gain deeper understanding of how CAP affects distributed systems like Google Apps.
- Understand how the application of communicative and noncommunicative operations can affect distributed systems in interesting ways.
Abstract
Micah Lemonik of Google NYC will discuss the challenges of building behaviorally complex products and realtime state management systems at a global scale.
Learn about the architectural history of Google Docs and how we build the worlds largest real time collaboration platform and how we make that platform available to developers.
Some of the things covered:
- Making realtime collaboration on any document type work
- Making a word processor and spreadsheet in a browser
- Building scalable distributed systems that need to support a large amount of object state and non-idempotent / non-commutative messaging
- Architecting Google Drive's realtime SDK
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