ekivutha / short-ruby-url

Url shortener in ruby on rails

Run the app

bundle install rails serve Make sure selenium is running to avoid sanitize error

a) How you would generate a unique ID for each URL For each url I used a formula rand(36*8).to_s(36) to generate a unique key to associate with the long url

b) How you would generate unique IDs at scale (8K+ requests per second) The current implimentation uses microservices
c) How your service would handle redirects redirects are handled directly in the code

d) How you would support custom short URLs Currently not implemented but this would require me to use the custom address(https://t.co) and use a DNS lookup to pass the id(Efg5464D)

e) How you would delete expired URLs The system would require the a default expiry timer this can also be specified by the user, this would allow for the system to run a cron job and clean up the server

f) How you would track click stats store the number of times the url is referenced
g) Draw flowcharts diagrams and architecture diagram for this service.