Fluid Framework Operations

​Fluid Framework is a set of technologies from Microsoft that enable near-real-time collaboration without transferring large stores of data. This diagram shows a typical Fluid operation as might be seen when using Microsoft Loop. On a client, a user changes some content within Fluid Component 1. The client-side Fluid runtime sends information about the change to an instance of Azure Fluid Relay. The relay broadcasts the operation (but not the underlying data) to all Fluid components that share an instance, even across apps or clients. When the runtimes receive the operation, they send a “value changed” event to the components, which execute any business logic (including retrieving updated data) and update their views. Data is stored not in Azure but in an instance of SharePoint Embedded, which is hosted in an existing Microsoft 365 tenancy and accessed through the Graph API. All operations are processed through Azure Fluid Relay; there is no peer-to-peer communication in the framework.