Fast Shortener

A non-persistent fast URL-shortening service in Golang using valaya/fasthttp and patrickmn/go-cache.

Why use this?

• Links only persist as long as needed
• Speed is good
• You don't like databases

Usage

PUT Link

To shorten https://google.com to hostname/google for 60 seconds, make a request to hostname/put

{
  "url": "https://google.com",
  "key": "google",
  "seconds": 60
}

Prohibited keys:

• put
• ok

GET Link

To be redirected to https://google.com after PUT-ing the above, make a request to hostname/google

Configuration

See config.json

Benchmarks

Ran locally on a mid-2015 15" MBP

BenchmarkPutLink-8   	            500000        2912 ns/op
BenchmarkGetLink-8   	           2000000	       848 ns/op
BenchmarkCacheShortenerPut-8   	 2000000	       727 ns/op
BenchmarkCacheShortenerGet-8   	10000000	       230 ns/op

Development

Clone the repo: go get github.com/davidlu1997/fast-shortener

Tests

• Run tests: make test
• Run benchmarks: make benchmark

Run

• Run server: make run
• Check health: curl http://localhost:8069/ok

Lint

• Lint actionable: make lint
• Lint all: make lint-all