May 1 · 4 min read · 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 r
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Apr 5 · 26 min read · TLDR: 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
Join discussionFeb 15 · 3 min read · You'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...
Join discussionFeb 7 · 4 min read · Sharing 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...
Join discussionFeb 5 · 2 min read · 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 ...
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Feb 4 · 7 min read · Ever stared at a third-party service's pricing page and thought, "I could build this myself"? That's exactly how Open Short URL was born. The Moment Everything Changed It started with a simple realization: I was paying for something I didn't fully c...
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