Overview of My Submission

A URL shortening service with objective to:

• To provide a alias for long URLs
• Record the visits on the URL for info about its use

Submission Category: Microservice Mavens

Video Explainer of My Project

Language Used

• Java : Spring Boot
• Golang : Fiber
• Javascript : React.js

Link to Code

dev117uday / redis-dev-hackathon

Redis Hackathon

URL Shortener : Microservice Maven

A URL shortening service with objective to:

• To provide a alias for long URLs
• Record the visits on the URL for info about its use

Typical Architecture

Simplified Redis Stack Architecture

Overview video (Optional)

Here's a short video that explains the project and how it uses Redis:

How it works

How the data is stored:

For every URL info, there are 3 things store

• JSON containing all info
• Key Value pair [short url]->[long url]
• Redis Timeseries in name format links:{short_url}

How the data is accessed:

• When you hit the Go Service, it fetches the Long URL using the short one from key value store and sends a message to redsub with current timestamp, and redirect the user to Long URL
• Java subscribes to the channel : pubsub:dev117uday and when it receives the message, it stores into the Redis Timeseries
• When user can save new URL…

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Additional Resources / Info

Typical Architecture

Redis Stack Architecture

• TimeSeries visualization using redis stack

Collaborators

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