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RushTix: High-Burst Micro-Ticketing

Design a ticketing system for local community theaters that handle sudden bursts of traffic when 500 tickets go on sale for a popular show. The system must guarantee no over-selling and provide a 10-minute hold period once a ticket is in the cart.

Key concepts

distributed lockingtransactional integrityqueueing

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