Design a URL Shortener
Company: HackerRank
Role: Software Engineer
Category: System Design
Difficulty: medium
Interview Round: Technical Screen
Overview: This question evaluates a candidate's ability to design scalable, highly available distributed systems, covering competencies in API design, data modeling, storage and caching strategies, unique code generation, and operational concerns such as expiration, abuse mitigation, and analytics.
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