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Introduction
Understanding the problem/product
Requirements
CP vs AP System
Capacity Estimation
Traffic Computation
Storage Computation
APIs
Building Blocks & URL Shortening Algorithm
Key Components
Shortening Algorithm
URL Generator service
Concurrency Issues
Database Schema
Trade-offs & Bottlenecks
How to scale reads
How to shard the data
Cleanup of URLs
System Design of URL Shortening Service
System design is one of the most important and feared aspects of software engineering. This opinion comes from my own learning experience in an associate architecture course. When I started my associate architecture course, I had a hard time understanding the idea of designing a system.
★ Definition of the System:
★ Requirements of the System:
★ How much request does the system need to handle?
★ How much storage do we need?
★ Data flow:
★ Generate a short — unique key for a given URL
★ Unique Key Generation:
★Availability & Reliability:
★DataStorage:
★ Scalability:
★ Cache:
★ Load balancer:
★ Link expiration after a duration:
★ Security:
Conclusion:

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