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Design a URL Shortener

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Owl · Hi! Today, I'd like you to design a URL shortening service similar to Bitly. A user should be able to submit a long URL and receive a short URL. When someone visits that short URL, they should be redirected to the original URL. For example: Input: https://example.com/products/software-engineering/interview-preparation Output: https://sho.rt/aB3x9Q I'd like you to think about short URL generation, database design, redirects, caching, scaling to billions of URLs, and availability versus consistency. Go ahead and start whenever you're ready.

Owl: Hi! Today, I'd like you to design a URL shortening service similar to Bitly. A user should be able to submit a long URL and receive a short URL. When someone visits that short URL, they should be redirected to the original URL. For example: Input: https://example.com/products/software-engineering/interview-preparation Output: https://sho.rt/aB3x9Q I'd like you to think about short URL generation, database design, redirects, caching, scaling to billions of URLs, and availability versus consistency. Go ahead and start whenever you're ready.

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