/tags/system-design/ Recent content in System-Design on Aaryan's 📖 Hugo -- 0.152.2 en-us Fri, 28 Jan 2022 17:49:17 +0530 /posts/no-collision-guaranteed/ Fri, 28 Jan 2022 17:49:17 +0530 /posts/no-collision-guaranteed/ <h1 id="designing-no-collision-guarantee-system">Designing No Collision Guarantee System.</h1> <p>So for the past few days, I&rsquo;ve been trying to build a <em>distributed highly scalable, no collision guaranteed URL shortening service</em>.</p> <h2 id="the-architecture">The Architecture</h2> <p>So if you pass in a long url called <code>https://longurl.com</code>, the backend will send you a short url that would be unique to each request, and the structure of the url would look something like: <code>https://shorturl.com/[slug]</code>.</p> <p>The slug is our main component, it should always be unique.</p>