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Number of unique shortened links generated per month = 100 million Service should expose REST API’s so that it can be integrated with third party applications.URL redirection should be fast and should not degrade at any point of time (Even during peak loads).Service should be up and running all the time.Once a shortened link is generated it should stay in system for lifetime.Service should collect metrics like most clicked links.Users can create custom url with maximum character limit of 16.Shortened link should be as small as possible.Click to the short URL should redirect the user to the original long URL.Service should be able to create shortened url/links against a long url.Service should also aggregate metrics like number of URL redirections per day and other analytics for targeted advertisements. How many url shortening request expected per month ?Īssume 100 million new URL shortenings per monthĭo we expect service to provide metrics like most visited links ? Yes user can create a tiny url of his/her choice. How long a tiny url would be ? Will it ever expire ?Īssume once a url created it will remain forever in system.Ĭan a customer create a tiny url of his/her choice or will it always be service generated ? If user is allowed to create customer shortened links, what would be the maximum size of custom url ? This will then become the basis for functional requirements. Hence it’s always a good idea to ask interviewer what features are expected in the service. There can be myriad of features even in seemingly small service like URL shortening.

#TINYURL GENERATOR FREE#

I have created a tiny url to my medium profile using a free short link generation service called (Try clicking shortened link and also try generating few short urls on your own at ) In addition, it is easy and less error prone to type a short url when compared to its longer version.įor e.g. T iny url are exceedingly handy to share through sms/tweets (where there is limit to number of characters that can be messaged/tweeted) and also when they are printed in books/magazines etc.(Less character implies less printing cost). A URL shortener service creates a short url/aliases/tiny url against a long url.Moreover, when user click on the tiny url, he gets redirected to original url.

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