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System Design - URL Shortener

System Design - URL Shortener

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Dive into the architecture of one of the most popular system design interview questions: the URL Shortener. In this episode, we break down how to scale from a simple script to a global service like Bitly. We cover unique ID generation, hashing vs. base conversion, database selection (SQL vs. NoSQL), and caching strategies to handle millions of requests per second.

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