Motivation

The motivation behind this project is to learn more about system design and how to build a scalable system. The book system design interview is a great resource to learn about system design and this project is based on the case study of building a url shortener.

Table of Contents

• Requirements
• How to run
• API
• Architecture
• References

Requirements

• Docker
• Docker Compose
• Golang

How to run

1. Clone the repository
2. Run docker-compose up to start the redis server
3. Run go run main.go to start the server
4. Run go test ./... to run the tests

API

POST /shorten

Request body:

{
    "url": "https://www.google.com"
}

Response body:

{
    "shortened_url": "http://localhost:8080/1"
}

GET /:id

Response body:

{
    "url": "https://www.google.com"
}

Architecture

References

• System Design Interview