Designing a Robust Flash‑Sale (秒杀) System: Architecture, High Concurrency Handling, and Rate‑Limiting Strategies
This article examines the challenges of building a flash‑sale system—such as overselling, massive concurrent requests, URL exposure, and database pressure—and presents a comprehensive backend design that includes dedicated databases, dynamic URLs, static pages, Redis clustering, Nginx load balancing, SQL optimization, token‑bucket rate limiting, asynchronous order processing, and service degradation techniques.
