The Making of a Scalable URL Shortener

This article was initially published as a thread of posts on X . For the sake of readability and long-term availability, it is now available here as a single-page article. Post 1 A few months ago, I built a custom URL shortener. Quick refresher: a URL shortener does two things: Creates short URLs that map to long URLs Redirects short URL requests to those long URLs. Designing this was a fantastic…