Building a High-Performance Ticketing System with TigerBeetle Database
By
jorangreef
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Summary
The article details how TigerFans built a high-performance ticketing system using TigerBeetle, a financial transaction database. It explains the journey from initial curiosity to achieving 977 tickets per second, addressing the challenge of handling massive concert-scale traffic where tickets must not be oversold and payments must be reliably processed. The piece highlights TigerBeetle's suitability for financial-grade transaction processing and demonstrates a complete ticket checkout and payment flow.
Key quotes
· 4 pulledToo easy: TigerBeetle.
That was Joran Dirk Greef's response when someone on Twitter asked how you'd build a ticketing solution for an Oasis-scale concert—hundreds of thousands of people flooding your website at once, where you need to guarantee no ticket gets sold twice and everyone who pays gets a ticket.
TigerBeetle is a financial transaction database.
A journey from simple curiosity to 977 tickets per second.
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