Chapter 18

Ticket Booking

Design a ticket-booking platform like Ticketmaster — the hard part is preventing double-booking under high concurrent demand.

What You'll Learn in This Chapter:

✦Optimistic vs Pessimistic locking strategies
✦Distributed locking with Redis/ZooKeeper
✦Seat allocation state machine
✦Idempotent transaction handling

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