System Design Mock Interview: Design URL Shortener

In this interview, Nazarii Romankiv (Solution Architect I) answers a system design interview question of designing URL Shortener, commonly asked in software engineering and technical program management (TPM) interviews.Chapters:
Introduction
Initial system requirements
Clarifying questions
Initial Design
Scaling solution with features and capacity
Deep Dive into select components
Discussing design limitations
Wrapping up

[@SunnDeath]

Awesome design interview example! Thank you, guys

[@q8246500]

Guys great job !

[@alexeytiron2073]

Probably I lost, but by 10k rps means reads or writes? Or what's the proportion?

[@StyleTFX]

Right on point 👌 It was total and we never discussed proportion. Bummer!