Software Architecture by Example: Using C# and .NET

© Paul Michaels 2022

P. MichaelsSoftware Architecture by Examplehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7990-8_1

1. The Ticket Sales Problem

Paul Michaels¹  

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Derbyshire, UK

 

When I first started out in IT, the industry was still quite niche. Although many people used computers in their day job, access to the Internet or even a personal computer at home was still a way off for most people. This was around the time that the industry was gearing up to fix the millennium bug: an issue that was prevalent in many systems, because 20 or 30 years earlier, when these systems were written, the programmers had assumed they would have been replaced before the year 2000.

At this time, if you wanted to go and see a band play, you typically had two choices: you physically ...