1. Planning and Architecture Design
Incorporating Ditto's offline-first and peer-to-peer sync capabilities requires thoughtful planning to ensure seamless integration into your app's overall architecture. This section outlines key decisions around data flow, sync logic, and conflict handling that will set the foundation for your application’s design, emphasizing an offline-first strategy to provide a consistent user experience even with intermittent connectivity.
This article provides best practices for handling sync in Ditto's mesh networks, focusing on efficient transport usage, query-based sync, conflict resolution, and offline-first models to ensure data consistency in distributed environments.
In mesh networking, conflict handling ensures data consistency by using version vectors to track updates, deterministic merging for eventual consistency, and predictable resolution of conflicting data inputs.
In mesh networks, efficient data flow is achieved through multiple transports (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth), localized syncing to reduce latency, and flood-fill propagation for consistency. Using a multiplexer optimizes bandwidth, and conflict-free sync ensures consistency across peers.