Grokking the System Design Interview, Volume II
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Flash Sale: High-Level Architecture

Step 4: High-Level Architecture

A flash sale is a burst of traffic aimed at one page, for one narrow window. Every part of this architecture exists to survive that burst without overselling a single unit of stock. It spans several tiers: presentation, application logic, caching, queuing, and storage. Here are the parts, and how they work together.

Clients (Web/App). Users reach the sale through a web browser or a mobile app. The client cuts load before a request ever leaves the device

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