Do you know how to build a URL Shortener? It's a system that can take in a long URL and return a unique short URL in the response. When you navigate the short URL, the URL Shortener system should redirect you to the original long URL. This is a common system design interview question.
Chapters
0:00 Creating the "shorten" API endpoint
4:20 Adding the short URL code generation service
11:07 Completing the "shorten" endpoint implementation
16:08 Adding the "redirect" endpoint using a Shortened URL
18:25 How to scale the URL Shortener
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