I know we can run site with purely varchar (clean slug) as url, but doesnt that put heavy load on the database? What kind of technology is quora using to render content quickly even without having any ID in the URL?
Even Hashnode uses some hash in the URL slug to work it out as ID.
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stuff ;)
usually a normal 255varchar can be indexed as a hashmap which is O(1) aka as fast as you can get :) if u use redis or anything designed as key value storage it should be even simpler