Topics tagged designing-a-url-shortening-service-like-tinyurl__system-design-problems_

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Why do we need a distributed system when our storage is just 15TB? Courses designing-a-url-shortening-service-like-tinyurl__system-design-problems__grokking-the-system-design-interview , grokking-the-system-design-interview__design-gurus	1	206	October 20, 2022
Range based partitioning in TinyUrl - should not be an issue? Courses designing-a-url-shortening-service-like-tinyurl__system-design-problems__grokking-the-system-design-interview , grokking-the-system-design-interview__design-gurus	4	179	October 11, 2022
Is Memory estimation Right? Courses designing-a-url-shortening-service-like-tinyurl__system-design-problems__grokking-the-system-design-interview , grokking-the-system-design-interview__design-gurus	2	135	October 1, 2022
Why we have web server in our design diagram Courses designing-a-url-shortening-service-like-tinyurl__system-design-problems__grokking-the-system-design-interview , grokking-the-system-design-interview__design-gurus	0	108	September 29, 2022
Do we index hash('key') or 'key' in the databases and caches? Courses designing-a-url-shortening-service-like-tinyurl__system-design-problems__grokking-the-system-design-interview , grokking-the-system-design-interview__design-gurus	3	198	September 18, 2022
If we use the MD5 algorithm as our hash function, it will produce a 128-bit hash value Courses designing-a-url-shortening-service-like-tinyurl__system-design-problems__grokking-the-system-design-interview , grokking-the-system-design-interview__design-gurus	3	90	September 14, 2022
What is KGS? Why 2 table? Courses designing-a-url-shortening-service-like-tinyurl__system-design-problems__grokking-the-system-design-interview , grokking-the-system-design-interview__design-gurus	28	12377	September 13, 2022
About the number of unique short URLs Courses designing-a-url-shortening-service-like-tinyurl__system-design-problems__grokking-the-system-design-interview , grokking-the-system-design-interview__design-gurus	2	352	August 21, 2022
Which DB we use for KEY-DB for Tiny URL? Courses designing-a-url-shortening-service-like-tinyurl__system-design-problems__grokking-the-system-design-interview , grokking-the-system-design-interview__design-gurus	2	2536	August 6, 2022
TinyURL - Why "Multiple users enter the same URL, they can get the same short URL, which is NOT acceptable" Courses designing-a-url-shortening-service-like-tinyurl__system-design-problems__grokking-the-system-design-interview , grokking-the-system-design-interview__design-gurus	4	4979	July 26, 2022
"Whenever there is a cache miss, our servers would be hitting a backend database. Whenever this happens, we can update the cache and pass the new entry to all the cache replicas" Courses designing-a-url-shortening-service-like-tinyurl__system-design-problems__grokking-the-system-design-interview , grokking-the-system-design-interview__design-gurus	2	146	July 9, 2022
Shortened links should not be guessable (not predictable). Why is this a problem? Courses designing-a-url-shortening-service-like-tinyurl__system-design-problems__grokking-the-system-design-interview , grokking-the-system-design-interview__design-gurus	9	3524	July 2, 2022
No read or redirection API here Courses designing-a-url-shortening-service-like-tinyurl__system-design-problems__grokking-the-system-design-interview , grokking-the-system-design-interview__design-gurus	1	289	May 31, 2022
Using base64 encoding, a 6 letters long key would result in 64^6 = ~68.7 billion possible strings Courses designing-a-url-shortening-service-like-tinyurl__system-design-problems__grokking-the-system-design-interview , grokking-the-system-design-interview__design-gurus	1	134	May 31, 2022
What do you mean by not signe Courses designing-a-url-shortening-service-like-tinyurl__system-design-problems__grokking-the-system-design-interview , grokking-the-system-design-interview__design-gurus	1	134	May 24, 2022
Which DB should we use for key-DB? Courses designing-a-url-shortening-service-like-tinyurl__system-design-problems__grokking-the-system-design-interview , grokking-the-system-design-interview__design-gurus	0	248	May 19, 2022
Why do we even need KGS? Courses designing-a-url-shortening-service-like-tinyurl__system-design-problems__grokking-the-system-design-interview , grokking-the-system-design-interview__design-gurus	1	158	May 19, 2022
How do you scale based on bandwidth read and write estimates? Courses designing-a-url-shortening-service-like-tinyurl__system-design-problems__grokking-the-system-design-interview , grokking-the-system-design-interview__design-gurus	0	182	May 8, 2022
Cache memory size calculation Courses designing-a-url-shortening-service-like-tinyurl__system-design-problems__grokking-the-system-design-interview , grokking-the-system-design-interview__design-gurus	2	158	April 27, 2022
How did we come to 31 bits from 1.6 billionn seconds Courses designing-a-url-shortening-service-like-tinyurl__system-design-problems__grokking-the-system-design-interview , grokking-the-system-design-interview__design-gurus	1	332	April 25, 2022
Why do we need to hash existing url? Courses designing-a-url-shortening-service-like-tinyurl__system-design-problems__grokking-the-system-design-interview , grokking-the-system-design-interview__design-gurus	1	362	April 13, 2022
Modern data server memory support Courses designing-a-url-shortening-service-like-tinyurl__system-design-problems__grokking-the-system-design-interview , grokking-the-system-design-interview__design-gurus	1	107	April 12, 2022
Statistics for popular URLs Courses designing-a-url-shortening-service-like-tinyurl__system-design-problems__grokking-the-system-design-interview , grokking-the-system-design-interview__design-gurus	1	212	April 9, 2022
URL Requirements unacceptable? Courses designing-a-url-shortening-service-like-tinyurl__system-design-problems__grokking-the-system-design-interview , grokking-the-system-design-interview__design-gurus	2	143	March 29, 2022
Why do we encode the hash value? Courses designing-a-url-shortening-service-like-tinyurl__system-design-problems__grokking-the-system-design-interview , grokking-the-system-design-interview__design-gurus	1	313	March 28, 2022
Can you explain why consistency is not important in this case? Courses designing-a-url-shortening-service-like-tinyurl__system-design-problems__grokking-the-system-design-interview , grokking-the-system-design-interview__design-gurus	1	196	March 28, 2022
How does choosing some other characters out of the base64 encoded string other than the first 6 letters resolve key duplication? Courses designing-a-url-shortening-service-like-tinyurl__system-design-problems__grokking-the-system-design-interview , grokking-the-system-design-interview__design-gurus	1	903	March 26, 2022
Concurrency handling at KGS Courses designing-a-url-shortening-service-like-tinyurl__system-design-problems__grokking-the-system-design-interview , grokking-the-system-design-interview__design-gurus	2	257	March 23, 2022
What's the point of cache servers? Courses designing-a-url-shortening-service-like-tinyurl__system-design-problems__grokking-the-system-design-interview , grokking-the-system-design-interview__design-gurus	2	256	March 19, 2022
What's the detailed sequence flow of the Key Generation Service? Courses designing-a-url-shortening-service-like-tinyurl__system-design-problems__grokking-the-system-design-interview , grokking-the-system-design-interview__design-gurus	2	291	February 26, 2022