Show HN: Xstatic docs – like Google Docs inside an S3 bucket

public.docs.xstatic.site

56 pointsronilan6 comments

For anyone interested, and for the record, this is my 2016 summer of code project. Experimental obviously.

There is some additional info in the about page: http://public.docs.xstatic.site/about.html

so how does it deal with eventually consistency.

updating a document in S3 is bad idea... that said the tech is interesting.

Google cloud storage has strong consistency. And it had an s3 like API.

Bummer can't be accessed in mainland China.

I just opened a document in two different browser windows.

Started editing in one. Changes did not appear in the other.

Pressed Ctrl+S in both windows, and it seems the last one wins. So basically the first one loses their work.

That's concurrency, which isn't really surprising :)

But probably when S3 is busy, you can edit, refresh and not see your changes.