Book: System Design Pocket Guide: Interviews

Also by me: Thinking in Go (2-book series) — Complete Guide to Go Programming + Hexagonal Architecture in Go

My project: Hermes IDE | GitHub — an IDE for developers who ship with Claude Code and other AI coding tools

Me: xgabriel.com | GitHub

In November 2022, Ticketmaster ran the Verified Fan presale for Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. By the company's own account , bot attacks and fans without codes drove the site to 3.5 billion total system requests, four times its previous peak, and about 15% of interactions across the site experienced issues. The same post says over 2 million tickets sold on Ticketmaster on November 15, the most for any artist in a single day. Then the general public on-sale was cancelled ( ET Online , CBS News ), "due to extraordinarily high demands on ticketing systems and insufficient remaining ticket inventory to meet that demand."

A record sales day and a cancelled on-sale from the same system, in the same week.…