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Mar 13

System Design HLD Example: URL Shortener (TinyURL and Bitly)

TLDR: A URL shortener is a read-heavy system (100:1 ratio) that maps long URLs to short, unique aliases. The core scaling challenge is generating unique IDs without database contention—solved using a

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