System Design of URL Shortening Service like TinyURL
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The following article on designing a URL shortening service like TinyURL is a chapter from the above course.
TinyURL is a URL shortening web service, which provides short aliases for redirection of long URLs.
The first step would be to collect the functional and non-functional requirements of the service.
Functional Requirements
The functional requirements include:
1. Given a big URL, the service should generate a unique small URL (or link) for the big URL (this is a write operation).
