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I thought the post would address what they do with the changes from individual contributors and how they merge them and manage conflicts. It's been known for quite a while that Wave used OT, and if I recall correctly, some engineers there said that it would take them as long to implement it again [I think two years] in discussions about CRDT/OT, etc.


Google Docs also uses OT, with a single master server per document that handles all of the mutations.




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