SHSaul Hernandezinsaul-lara.hashnode.dev·2d ago · 5 min readDesigning a URL Shortener - RequirementsI'll be sharing the process of an URL Shortener development from scratch. In this post, I'll be describing some requirements that I think will be important to know before start this project. The purpo00
NKNishant Kumarinnishant21.hashnode.dev·May 14 · 6 min readBuilding a URL Shortener in Go with RedisURL shorteners look simple on the surface. They are not. The moment you try building one yourself, you run into routing, persistence, redirects, storage design, collision handling, and backend perform00
PPyxisindistributed-url-shortener.hashnode.dev·May 1 · 4 min readDesigning a Distributed URL Shortener (Optimized for Read Scalability)URL shorteners look simple on the surface: map a short code to a long URL and redirect. At scale, the problem becomes very different. Millions of redirects, hot links going viral, and strict latency r00
AAAbstract Algorithmsinabstractalgorithms.hashnode.dev·Apr 5 · 26 min readID Generation Strategies in System Design: Base62, UUID, Snowflake, and BeyondTLDR: Short shareable IDs need Base62 (URL shorteners). Database primary keys at scale need time-ordered IDs (Snowflake, UUID v7). Security tokens need random IDs (UUID v4, NanoID). Picking the wrong 00
MSMinira Samedovainmini-dev-log.hashnode.dev·Mar 23 · 4 min readURL Shortener Design: Considerations and QuestionsResources System Design Interview – Chapter 8 Hello Interview – Design Bitly The resources mentioned above do a great job of explaining how to design a URL shortener. Below, I will share some cons00
AAAbstract Algorithmsinabstractalgorithms.hashnode.dev·Mar 13 · 19 min readSystem 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 00
AAAbstract Algorithmsinabstractalgorithms.hashnode.dev·Mar 9 · 22 min readLLD for URL Shortener: Designing TinyURLTLDR TLDR: A URL Shortener maps long URLs to short IDs. The core challenge is generating a globally unique, short, collision-free ID at scale. We use Base62 encoding on auto-incrementing database IDs00
AAlfredinkepe.hashnode.dev·Feb 15 · 3 min readWhy you need a URL shortenerYou're sharing links, but you have no idea when people are actually clicking them, and that's costing you. Every link you share, whether through an email campaign or social media posts, tells a story. When did people click? How many times did they cl...00
LNLiam Noahinshorturl-guide.hashnode.dev·Feb 7 · 4 min readShortURL: Simplifying Links in the Digital AgeSharing information is what the internet is all about, but long and complicated web addresses can make it hard to talk to people. ShortURL services were made to fix this problem by turning long links into short, easy-to-share ones. ShortURL tools hel...00
FKFrank Kelechi Ogeinfrankoge.com·Feb 5 · 2 min readSystem Design 101: Building a Scalable URL Shortener (Bitly Style)A URL shortener seems like a weekend project: take a long URL, give it a random ID, and save it to a database. Easy, right? But what if you have 100 million requests per day? What if you need the redirection to happen in under 10 milliseconds? What ...00
