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Amazon's order processing doesn't instantly reduce inventory because the system is architected to avoid race conditions and tolerate brief delays. Instead of synchronous inventory checks, the system accepts orders and confirms or rejects them asynchronously — sometimes within a minute, sometimes up to 10. This design tradeoff prioritizes availability over immediate consistency, illustrating a core distributed systems principle: if you can't afford outages, redesign the architecture to eliminate the need for instant guarantees.

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