Real Differences Between OT and CRDT for Co-Editors
Sorry, what?<p>OT requires centralized servers to do intention resolution.<p>CRDTs are a set of operations that can work on any peer and resolve correctly, without extra coordination or central resolution.<p>The two things are about opposite as they can get. Some CRDTs can be used to make Google Docs style OT, but are not specific to OT use cases.<p>Source: Me, I&#x27;m the leading industry and open source expert on CRDTs which power the popular <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;amark&#x2F;gun" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;amark&#x2F;gun</a> decentralized database that the Internet Archive, D.tube (1M+ monthly visitors), notabug.io (1K&#x2F;daily users) use. CRDTs have let us scale to 3K tx&#x2F;sec on $99 hardware in P2P mesh networks.