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Hey Paul & Taylor, congrats on the launch!

Can this be used, for example, to create a collaborative whiteboard app? I am trying to understand the use cases. Does it depend on Docker and Guacamole? Guacamole was mentioned in passing in your video but I haven’t heard of it before.



Hey Matt!

Yes, it could be used to create a whiteboard app by spinning up one backend per whiteboard, and connecting each user to the backend of the whiteboard they are viewing. For data synchronization, where it really shines is in slightly more complex cases where data updates need to be validated (e.g. 3d software or a CAD app), because unlike a traditional pub/sub service which just passes messages through, you can run your own code on the backend.

It depends on Docker, but Guacamole is only used for the demo. Guacamole is what lets us run Firefox inside Docker and then view it inside another browser so that we can test an install without having to configure a bunch of DNS and certificate stuff.




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