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Design a system like Airbnb or Booking.com where users can search for and book rooms for specific date ranges.
We are building a hotel booking platform. Users need to search for hotels available within a specific date range and book them. How would you design the data model and core services?
Use this as one discussion aid, not a single correct answer. Your design should follow from the requirements, scale, and trade-offs you establish.
graph LR
A["Design a Hotel Reservation System"]
A --> F1["Data Modeling for Availability Rooms vs Dates"]
A --> F2["Handling Date Range Overlaps efficiently"]
A --> F3["Concurrency Double Booking prevention"]
A --> F4["Search Indexing Geospatial + Date availability"]Practice drawing this system component-by-component on a live whiteboard while the interviewer probes at your target level.
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