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Designing a URL Shortener

Step-by-step design of a URL shortening service

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Designing a URL Shortener

Services like bit.ly and tinyurl shorten long URLs into short, shareable links. Let's design one.

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High-Level Design

Short URL Generation

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In URL shortener design, what is the read-to-write ratio typically?

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