15 Design Airbnb
This chapter covers
- Designing a reservation system
- Designing systems for operations staff to manage items and reservations
- Scoping a complex system
The question is to design a service for landlords to rent rooms for short-term stays to travelers. This may be both a coding and system design question. A coding discussion will be in the form of coding and object-oriented programming (OOP) solution of multiple classes. In this chapter, we assume this question can be applied to reservation systems in general, such as
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Movie tickets
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Air tickets
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Parking lots
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Taxis or ridesharing, though this has different non-functional requirements and different system design.
15.1 Requirements
Before we discuss requirements, we can discuss ...
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