Design a Collaborative Spreadsheet (Google Sheets)

Collaborative Spreadsheet Backend Hard · Distributed Systems · Reactive Collaboration · OT/CRDT Design the backend for a live-editing, web-based spreadsheet. The canvas is a grid of cells identified by row and column; each cell stores either a raw value (number or text) or a formula that references other cells. Multiple people must be able to edit the same sheet at the same time, with all updates flowing to every viewer within a fraction of a second. The system must persist…