URL Shortening Service

This project was done during a weekend to learn and freshen up previously used technologies.

The stack used is:

• C# Console App for the user facing interface to interact with the API
• Java Spring Boot API which interacts with the Object Storage MongoDB to handle URL and User operations
• Redis to cache frequent request to prevent database overhead and shorten lookup times (not just links :) )

System Design Diagram of the idea

Differentiating the current state of the project from the diagram:

• No Load Balancing
• No Multi-Instance API
• No Multi-Instance Cache
• The "Web Application" due to time constraints is a console app. Should be ASP.NET in the future.

Further improvement ideas:

Many of the improvement ideas below could be thrown out and this project made into a personal shortening service, to keep locally or host on one's server. Containerizing would make this extremely easy to deploy.

• Implement sharding in the MongoDB database
• Setup Docker and containerize the project
• Real authentication for the users
• Rate limiting & Load Balancing
• Multi Instance the API servers
• CD