Amazon is an e-commerce platform that allows users to browse products, add items to their cart, and complete purchases online.
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At its core, Amazon connects buyers with products through a seamless shopping experience. It handles everything from product discovery and search to checkout and order fulfillment. The platform serves hundreds of millions of users, hosts millions of products from various sellers, and processes billions of transactions annually.
Popular Examples: Amazon.com, eBay, Alibaba, Flipkart, Shopify stores
In this chapter, we will explore the high-level design of an e-commerce platform like Amazon.
This system design problem covers a wide range of distributed systems concepts including search, inventory management, payment processing, and handling traffic spikes.
Lets start by clarifying the requirements: