Designing a URL Shortening Service like TinyURL Lets design a URL Shortening service like TinyURL. This service will provide short short URLs for a large URL. What is the Problem ? URLs can be pretty huge depending upon the resources like the following : https://news.google.com/topics/CAAqIggKIhxDQkFTRHdvSkwyMHZNREZqY0hsNUVnSmxiaWdBUAE?hl=en-IN&gl=IN&ceid=IN%3Aen , I think this Shortening was majorly used in Twittor where there is a limit of 140 characters. Requirements of the System Its always necessary to clear out the requirements with the Stakeholders on what are the expectations they are making, This will ensure that our System is designed as per the Requirements. Questions which are already answered We need to design a system which will store a shorter version of URL that was given. When somebody clicks that shorter URL , request will hit our Service and they will be redirected to the original URL. Questions wh...
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