Design a Multi-Branch Library Lending System
Company: Amazon
Role: Software Engineer
Category: System Design
Difficulty: medium
Interview Round: Technical Screen
Overview: Design a multi-branch library system for catalog search, reservations, checkout, returns, and branch-level copy availability. Explore concurrency-safe loan state, search consistency, idempotent workflows, and recovery when notifications or branches fail.
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