Design of Google Docs
Let's understand how we can design the collaborative document editing service using various components.
We'll cover the following...
Design
We’ll complete our design in two steps. In the first step, we’ll explain different components and building blocks and the reason for their choice in our design. The second step will describe how we fulfill various functional requirements by depicting a workflow.
Components
We’ve utilized the following set of components to complete our design:
API gateway: Different client requests will get intercepted through the API gateway. Depending on the request, it’s possible to forward a single request to multiple components, reject a request, or reply instantly using an already cached response, all through the API gateway. Edit requests, comments on a document, notifications, authentication, and data storing requests will all ...