System Design Interview Question: Design URL Shortener

Designing a scalable and secure URL shortener service like TinyURL or Bitly, planning the system architecture, API design, and key strategies for high availability and security.

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🔖 Sections
0:00 Introduction
0:53 Functional and Non-functional Requirements
1:18 Clarifying Questions
2:30 Data Estimation
4:36 High-Level System Design
5:24 API Design
7:13 Database: Storing the shortened URLs
8:18 URL Shortener Service
10:19 High Availability & Low Latency
11:20 Database Scaling
12:24 Security Considerations

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