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Amazon processes roughly 66,000 orders per hour. During Prime Day 2023, they sold 375 million items in 48 hours, that's 4,340 items per second at a sustained rate, with spikes going much higher. Behind every "Add to Cart" button is an intricate system managing real-time inventory across thousands of warehouses, calculating shipping options for millions of destinations, personalizing product recommendations for 300 million active customers, and processing payments in dozens of currencies.
E-commerce is the ultimate integration challenge. It touches every domain of system design: databases, , search, messaging, payments, recommendations, logistics, and more. The individual pieces aren't novel, you've seen them in other capstone projects. What makes e-commerce special is how they all fit together, and how the failure of any one component can block revenue.