Design and Architecture of High‑Concurrency Flash‑Sale (Seckill) Systems
This article presents a comprehensive analysis of flash‑sale (seckill) business characteristics, technical challenges such as traffic spikes, database overload, and order handling, and offers detailed architectural solutions spanning frontend static pages, CDN caching, request throttling, queue‑based processing, optimistic locking, database sharding, high‑availability designs, and anti‑cheat mechanisms to ensure correctness and scalability under extreme concurrency.
