E-Commerce System Design
A system design case study for an e-commerce platform covering catalog, search, cart, inventory, checkout, payments, and fulfillment.
E-Commerce System Design
This case study focuses on designing an e-commerce platform for product discovery, shopping carts, inventory, checkout, payments, order fulfillment, and recommendations.
What This Article Covers
- Scope and interview expectations
- Catalog, search, pricing, cart, checkout, payment, order, and fulfillment workflows
- Service boundaries for product, inventory, cart, order, payment, shipment, and notification services
- Data model choices for product variants, inventory reservations, orders, and payments
- Caching, search indexing, asynchronous processing, and event-driven updates
- Failure handling for payment retries, inventory conflicts, and order compensation
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