Interview Question - Design a URL Shortening Service
Table of Content
- 1. What is a URL shortening service?
- 2. How does a URL shortener work?
- 3. Terminology
- 4. Questions to ask the Interviewer
- 5. Requirements
- 6. URL Shortener API
- 7. URL Shortening
- 8. URL Redirection
- 9. Database
- 10. Types of Data Stores for a URL Shortener
- 11. Planning How Big Our System Needs to Be (Capacity Planning)
- 12. Capacity Planning Summary
- 13. How Our URL Shortener Works
- 14. High-Level System Design (Deep Dive)
- 15. Encoding
- 16. Write path
- 17. Random ID Generator solution
- 18. Hashing Function solution
- 19. Token Range solution
- 20. Summary
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