Url Shortener Built with Distributed Technologies.

System Design:

• Redis - Used for Caching Short URLs mapped to Long URLs (Useful for when someone opens a Short URL)

• Zookeeper - Used for generating Unique Counters for Base62 Algorithm. Each instance of URL-Shortener-Service recieves an ID range of 100,000

• Cassandra Schema:

System uses gRPC and Protobuff to achieve communication between client and server.

Demo: