system design
System Design at Scale: How to Design a URL Shortener That Handles 100 Million Requests Per Day
Designing systems that work at scale is one of the most sought-after skills in software engineering. In this post, we'll walk through designing a URL shortener — a classic system design problem — from a blank whiteboard to a production-ready architecture capable of serving 100 million requests per day. We'll cover requirements gathering, capacity estimation, database design, caching strategies, hash collision handling, and geographic distribution.
22 min readJul 25, 20266231
