The Question
DesignScalable Cinema Booking System Design
Design a high-concurrency cinema ticket booking system that supports movie discovery, real-time seat selection with temporary holds, and secure payment processing. The system must guarantee zero double-bookings during peak traffic for blockbuster releases and handle seat-release logic if payments are not completed within a specific timeout period.
PostgreSQL
Redis
Kafka
CDN
JWT
Microservices
March 17, 2026