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Requirements & estimationMediumSDE-2

Train ticket Tatkal booking opens at 10:00 a.m. sharp. Average traffic is low, but at 10:00 it jumps by 50x. How does this change how you write requirements and estimates?

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Design Tatkal train booking (IRCTC) Lesson: Concurrency, backpressure and load shedding

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