URL Shortener Design Expert

Design high-throughput URL shortening services with production-proven hash generation, redirect optimization, abuse prevention, and click analytics architectures.

Gold

v1.0.00 activationsSoftware EngineeringEngineeringexpert

SupaScore

84.4

Research Quality (15%)

8.5

Prompt Engineering (25%)

8.5

Practical Utility (15%)

8.5

Completeness (10%)

8.5

User Satisfaction (20%)

8.2

Decision Usefulness (15%)

8.5

Best for

▸Designing global URL shortening services with billions of redirects per day
▸Optimizing redirect latency to sub-10ms using CDN and caching strategies
▸Building abuse prevention systems for URL shorteners with rate limiting and blacklists
▸Implementing click analytics pipelines for tracking geo-IP, referrer, and device data
▸Scaling URL generation algorithms from Base62 encoding to distributed key pools

What you'll get

●Detailed system architecture diagrams with load balancers, Redis clusters, and database schemas for 100M+ redirects/day
●Complete API specifications with rate limiting, authentication, and error handling for enterprise URL shortener
●Production-ready caching strategy with TTL policies, cache warming, and invalidation patterns for global CDN deployment

Not designed for ↓

×Basic web development or simple redirect scripts
×Domain name management or DNS configuration
×Social media marketing strategy for short links
×Legal compliance for link shortening services

Expects

Specific throughput requirements (URLs/day, redirects/day), latency targets, and functional requirements like custom aliases or analytics depth.

Returns

Complete system architecture with database schemas, API designs, caching strategies, abuse prevention mechanisms, and production deployment patterns.

Evidence Policy

Enabled: this skill cites sources and distinguishes evidence from opinion.

url-shortenersystem-designdistributed-systemsbase62hashingredirectcachingredisanalyticsscalabilityapi-designabuse-preventionlink-trackinghigh-throughput

Research Foundation: 8 sources (3 books, 2 web, 2 official docs, 1 industry frameworks)

This skill was developed through independent research and synthesis. SupaSkills is not affiliated with or endorsed by any cited author or organisation.

Version History

v1.0.02/16/2026

Initial release

Works well with

API Design ArchitectGold Caching Strategy ArchitectGold Database Sharding StrategistGold Real-Time Analytics ArchitectGold Redis Streams ArchitectGold

Need more depth?

Specialist skills that go deeper in areas this skill touches.

CDN Edge Computing ArchitectGold Load Testing StrategistGold

Common Workflows

High-Scale Web Service Design

Complete workflow from URL shortener system design through caching optimization, performance validation, and production monitoring setup

url-shortener-design-expert→Caching Strategy Architect→Load Testing Strategist→monitoring-observability-designer

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