This is the second post of Design eCommerce Website series posts. If you haven’t read the first post, it’s better to check it first as we’ll continue our discussion here.

To briefly remind you what we have discussed in the previous post, we started with the data model design for an eCommerce website. Although relational database is the most common approach, we notice that NoSQL database like MongoDB provides a lot of advantages and flexibilities when building an eCommerce website. To scale the system, concurrency is one of the key factors to consider.

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Over the past couple of weeks, a lot of people requested us to discuss eCommerce website. Not only has this topic been asked in quite a lot system design interviews, but also eCommerce websites are so popular today that a lot of techniques and researches are developed for it.

Before digging into this topic, it’s better to understand why design eCommerce website is popular in system design interviews. First of all, building an eCommerce website requires things like database design, system availability, concurrency consideration and so on so forth. All of them are extremely important in today’s distributed systems. In addition, everyone has used some eCommerce website like Amazon. If you are generally curious about surroundings, you should have already thought about this topic.
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