Distributed Counter

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High-Level Design

The distributed counter executes the following operations at a macro level:

• the WebSocket exposes the counter to users via a gateway server

• the heartbeat signal is utilized to terminate inactive WebSocket connections

• the counter data type in a database based on Conflict-free Replicated Data Types (CRDT) is leveraged to realize the distributed counter

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