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  62. Design a Flash Sale System

  Sell 10,000 units to a million people at noon with a lottery waiting room, a Redis gate before an Aurora ledger and holds that expire.

  ClassicMedium

  CachingDatabasesConcurrency

  +6

  AuroraAWSFlash saleInventoryRedisWaiting room

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  64. Design for Contention: Thousands Racing for the Same Item

  Design for contention through a limited sneaker drop: row locks, conditional writes, expiring holds, fencing tokens, sagas and one writer per item.

  ClassicMedium

  ConcurrencyAWSContention

  +3

  Flash saleLockingSagas

  Worked design

  Practice

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