A basic ticketing service application.

Assume a venue like so:

        a1 ......... a100
        b1 ......... b100
                .
                .
                .
        z1 ......... z100

The ticketing service agent accepts requests from a customer for a given number of seats and returns the best seats, if any are available.

This is a simple command line application. It can also accept client connections via tcp. There is a client project ticketing-service-client.

1. Start the ticketing-service application using gradle's bootRun plugin. From the project directory enter command: gradle bootRun. Please note that a version of Java 8 and Gradle must be in the Path.

2. If the application runs successfully, you will get the following prompts in sequence:

a. To enter an email address b. To request X number of seats c. To confirm a reservation

If there seats available and reservation period has not expired, you will get an alphanumeric confirmation code.

Two things would need to be done to scale this solution:

1. A shared resilient and replication repository with geographic considerations
2. A queuewhere incoming requests are queued and processed in turn.