System Design
Design an Event Booking and Analytics Platform
Asked by:ByteDance
searchconcurrencytransactionsstreamingdata_modeling
Problem Overview & Requirements
Design a concert and movie booking platform whose operational activity feeds a governed cloud data warehouse for timely SQL and dashboard analysis.
Key Pillars: High Availability, Low Latency, Scalability, Fault Tolerance.
Topics & Components: search, concurrency, transactions, streaming, data_modeling.
System Design Breakdown
1. Requirements & Scope
Functional & non-functional requirements, DAU/MAU estimates, read/write throughput.
2. High Level Architecture
API Gateway, Load Balancers, Application Microservices, Caching Layer & Message Queue.
3. Data Model & Storage
SQL vs NoSQL selection, schema design, sharding keys, indexing, and replication strategy.
4. Bottlenecks & Trade-offs
CAP theorem trade-offs, consistency models, rate limiting, and cache invalidation strategies.