Clik - A Self-Deployable URL Shortener

Random Click Image Link Building a URL shortener is a classic system design interview question. I built one to find out how many of those whiteboard answers actually survive contact with real code. The Stack No abstractions over abstractions. Here is what it runs on: Java 21 Spring Boot 3.4.2 handles HTTP so I can focus on what matters underneath MySQL 8.0 (the database choice is load-bearing,…