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Design a URL Shortener

$0/mo

justified 0/0

edge

Clients$0/mo

CDN$400/mo

network

DNS$5/mo

Load Balancer$150/mo

API Gateway$250/mo

compute

App Server$120/mo

Worker Pool$100/mo

storage

PostgreSQL$600/mo

MySQL$550/mo

MongoDB$700/mo

Redis$200/mo

Memcached$150/mo

Object Storage$250/mo

Elasticsearch$900/mo

messaging

Kafka$800/mo

RabbitMQ$300/mo

Managed Queue$100/mo

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Functional

Shorten a long URL to a unique 7-character code
Redirect short URLs to the original with < 100ms p99 latency
Track click counts per short URL

Non-functional

Sustain 5,000 redirects/sec steady state
Survive a 3x traffic spike (viral link) without dropping requests
Survive a region-A database outage with < 1% error rate (place replicas elsewhere)
Total infrastructure cost under $3,500/month

Failure scenarios

⚡ Launch day steady state
⚡ A link goes viral (3x traffic)
⚡ Region A database outage

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