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Apr 24, 2020 · Backend Development
Mask Reservation Mini‑Program: From Perfect Experience to Lossy Service – Architecture and Design
During the COVID‑19 pandemic, Tencent and Guangzhou built the “Suikang” mask‑reservation mini‑program in two days, handling 1.7 billion visits by shifting from real‑time inventory checks to a four‑layer “lossy” architecture—CDN caching, batch releases, Redis, Kafka queues, and asynchronous processing—to trade consistency for high availability and rapid response.
CAP theoremKafkaLossy Service
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