This service stores and serves URL redirects. I stole this from Thomas who stole the idea from when he worked at LinkedIn who apparently stole it from Google.
The rest of this README is from the original repo. I added local-setup.md for instructions on setting up go links on a local machine.
By itself, a shared URL shortening service is stupid useful. Want to visit a thing? Type go/thing into your browser and hit enter.
It is honestly little things like this make everyone's life far easier.
Where I work we generally follow a pattern of go/$thing should take you to whatever $thing is. Here are a few examples:
- Jira is at
go/jira - Github is at
go/gh,go/github,go/g, etc - Our monitoring dashboards are at
go/graphs,go/dashboards, etc
It is perfectly fine to have duplication, the goal is that all the different ways folks think will all be taken to the right place.
You can also do fancier things like:
go/pr/1234orgo/#1234will take you directly to PR #1234go/jira/ABC-1234,go/ABC-1234to go directly to a specific jira issuego/calendar/$namewill take you to a person's calendar
Roughly, to make this work:
- Build and host go-shorten somewhere
- Setup a DNS entry to point to it (e.g.
go.corp.example.com) - Configure any clients you have to include
corp.example.comin their DNS search suffix list - Troubleshoot :P
I forked this project from https://github.com/didip/shawty because I liked how they laid out their project but I wanted to add a bunch more features and productionize it a bit more than was within scope for the original project.