Design Tiny-URL-Mostly asked System Design Interview Questions with coding examples for Java Developers

Designing tiny URLs is one of the frequently asked questions in any coding or system design interview, they are must-know for every experienced Developer.

Ajay Rathod
8 min readApr 4, 2023

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Design Tiny-URL (URL shortening service) — How to Design a URL shortening service?

Goal: Convert a long URL and design a service in such a way that it would generate a shorter and unique alias for it.

First We need to ask questions regarding the requirements of the scope of this application.

Challenges: How would we address the following issues? You would be asked the following questions.

How to generate a unique ID for each

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