Easy Designs — Overview

Simple designs focusing on core data models and basic scaling patterns.

These are great for: - Understanding fundamental design principles - Building confidence with basic requirements - Learning CRUD operations at scale

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Designs in This Section

01 · Hotel Booking Service

A complete example showing how to design a reservation system with concurrent bookings, cancellations, and availability management.

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What to Expect

Each easy design covers:

1. Functional Requirements — What the system must do
2. Non-Functional Requirements — Scale, latency, consistency needs
3. API Design — REST endpoints, request/response shapes
4. Data Model — Entity relationships, schema design
5. Caching & Persistence — Database choice, indexing
6. Monitoring — Key metrics to track

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