PawelBanach / url-shortener

README

This README would normally document whatever steps are necessary to get the application up and running.

Things you may want to cover:

• Ruby version

• System dependencies

• Configuration

• Database creation

• Database initialization

• How to run the test suite

• Services (job queues, cache servers, search engines, etc.)

• Deployment instructions

• ...

TODO

• CSV Export

• GeoLocation from request IP

• Schema of architecture

• Write Readme + Setup instructions

• Add index on key

Architecture decisions

• 302 status used in order to support statistics.

• Postgres - Many read replicas, one write replica

• Base64 encoding used to generate short link, it gives 64 ** 8 possibilities, small chance of collision

• Consider expiring of links, in order to save DB space